This memorial commemorates former workers at the British Thomson-Houston factory who gave their lives during the two world wars. The inscription reads: ‘In Memory of the Men of the British ...
1 Drill hall on Lancaster Road marked on 1923 map.
The site of a drill hall which was used for training military personnel towards the end of the Imperial period (between 1910 and 1914). It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1923. It was situated on Lancaster Road, Rugby.
Today, Rupert Brooke is possibly best known as a War Poet and is included on the Poets of the First World War memorial in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, alongside fellow poets, Wilfred Owen, Edmund ...