The Saxon Mill originally belonged to the Augustinian St Mary’s Abbey in Kenilworth and then formed part of the Guy’s Cliffe estate. It was rebuilt in 1822 and appears to ...
(Continued from part one)
So it was, on Tuesday 11th June 1861 the train which had passed over the bridge less than an hour earlier fully laden, left Leamington Spa station ...
With today’s interpretation of the Health & Safety laws it is easy to forget the rather laxed attitude towards H&S that prevailed in times past. Unfortunately, this was an attitude ...
Warwickshire County Record Office holds many fine collections relating to Warwickshire’s landed families; they are treasure troves which never fail to fascinate and surprise the reader. The Waller Family of ...
At the time George Wise inherited Woodcote he was unmarried, and at the age of 53, already had another home in Surrey. He died in 1888 and the family estates ...
Between 1832 to 1843 there was an ongoing correspondence between Anna Jarrett and her brother Wathen Waller. She was the wife of John Jarrett, the owner of broad acres in Somerset and ...
My dear Father
I received your letter of the 21st November. I hope that you all spent a happy Christmas. I have no doubt you did, I suppose that you had ...
In 1851, Henry Christopher Wise sold the Warwick Priory and 37 acres of its parkland to the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Co, which planned to lay its railway track through ...
In January 2016 Leek Wootton History Group received an email from a book and photograph dealer that read:
I have recently acquired an album of photographs with a dedication in the ...
The massacre at St Peter’s Field, Manchester, occurred on 16th August 1819, at a meeting of 60,000 people gathered to hear the orator Henry Hunt talk on electoral reform. The meeting ...