It is sad to see the remains of the Great Western pub that has been badly damaged. A fierce fire broke out in the afternoon of 24th August 2017 and ...
This attractive Grade II listed building was the old gas works for Warwick and Leamington. The building was erected in 1822: one of the first gas works in the world. ...
The book begins in August 1915, and at first the guests are mainly theatrical folk. As World War I progresses servicemen gradually dominate. There are many appreciative comments about the ...
Joseph Brookhouse (1759-1831) was in partnership with William Parkes and Samuel Crompton and together they owned a worsted manufacturing business in The Saltisford Warwick. The factory was established c. 1792 ...
There are many black days in British economic history, but before Black Wednesday and Black Monday there was a Black Tuesday, 6th September 1887, when the Bank of Greenway, Smith ...
The Black Horse Inn of Saltisford in Warwick records the exploits of highwayman Bendigo Mitchell thus: ‘Bendigo Mitchell was an 18th century highwayman. He plied his trade on the Warwick ...
In 1870, Thomas Potterton (born 1847) took over the general contractor business his father (also Thomas Potterton) had established in Balham, South West London in the 1850s.
By 1894, Thomas Potterton ...
Pub signs are well-known and well documented; pub murals may have been painted by the same sort of artist but are often less well-known, and sadly more ephemeral. Here are ...