When we are honoured by a Royal visit nowadays, we await with confidence a punctual arrival by helicopter or Rolls Royce, and there is often a great deal of preparation ...
Within the collections of the Warwickshire Museum, is an exceedingly rare 16th century lute. Not only is this instrument of incredibly high quality, but it was made by one of ...
This volume contains a survey of the lands belonging to the Earl of Warwick in Warwick in 1575; it is detailed in its description, by street, of the property held ...
The current handsome Georgian building in Jury Street stands on a site that had been successively St Peter’s Chapel, the Cross Tavern and an earlier Court House. The surviving Court ...
It is always an awkward feeling when research dispels the myth of a much loved local treasure.
On display in the Great Hall of Warwick Castle is a small and delicate ...
At Christmas time families often have their own traditions and stories for the holiday period, unique to their own personal histories and communities. In many cases, these stories are represented ...
Sir Thomas Puckering (1592-1637) owned the Priory in Warwick, now the site of Warwickshire County Record Office. He was the MP for Tamworth and Sheriff of Warwickshire, and his memorial ...
My heritage recipe challenge was to tackle this delightful invention found in the Wise family records.1 The 18th century writing is clear and the instructions quite simple and not too daunting. ...
It isn’t Christmas without a mince pie and once upon a time it wouldn’t have been a mince pie without the addition of actual minced meat. When the Warwickshire County ...
The length of time involved in an apprenticeship – often seven or even ten years – inevitably meant that there were problems, some more serious than others. The records cared ...
On the 5th September 1694,
..a sudden fire, which broake out about two of the clock in the afternoon on the fifth of this instant September, in the western part of ...
It’s funny the things you find when looking for something else.
A regular visitor to the Warwickshire County Record Office (name withheld to protect the guilty) drew our attention to a ...
Elizabeth’s visit to Kenilworth Castle in 1575 has been well documented, and indeed forms the basis of an article on this site. During the Queen’s lengthy stay there was the ...
Recently, two marble topped tables were sold at Sotheby’s which originally came from the Warwick Castle collection. These were made by the Grimani family in Italy between 1600 and 1620 ...
A rather fun news story emerged over the weekend that a three million pound painting by the painter Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) was rediscovered in the storeroom of Swansea Museum (also see ...
The Warwick House of Correction or Bridewell stood on the corner between Saltisford Rock (now Theatre Street) and Bridewell Lane (formerly Wallditch and now Barrack Street); the site is roughly where ...
A gaol was built in Warwick in the early 13th century and part of the castle was used as a gaol around 1600. The gaol in Northgate Street where the dreadful ...
Fulke Greville (1554-1628) is one of the most notable Warwickshire figures from the age of Shakespeare. A prolific writer of love sonnets, he also experimented with new literary genres, including ...
Unlike the County Gaol and the House of Correction which adjoined it, as well as St. Mary’s Church nearby, the Shire Hall suffered little damage in the Warwick great fire ...
The old County Gaol is the building next to Shire Hall, and was here until a new gaol was built at the Cape in 1860. After that part of the ...
The first racing in Warwick was held in 1694, hoping to raise money for the town after the great fire of that year. The first race at what is now ...
Warwick ‘WARWICKE’
The walls and turrets of Warwick Castle can be seen on the right of the town. The castle was built in 1068 and was home to the Earls of ...
In 2015, a portrait of King Henry VIII, painted by the studio of Hans Holbein during the lifetime of England’s most iconic king, was sold by Merlin Entertainments at Sothebys ...
After his progress through the Midlands, Henry VIII stayed at Warwick Castle from at least Tuesday 5th to Sunday 10th September 1511. Henry’s royal progresses lacked the fanciful extravagance of his ...