On the 11th October 2014, Coleshill Remembers held its first vigil to commemorate the first local casualty of the Great War 100 years previously. An old boy of the St ...
Below is what was read out at one of our vigils for one of our locals.
15th November 1915
Private Charles Peter Nevill, 22 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Private Nevill is remembered ...
Coleshill Chronicle 27th November, 1915
The sad news was received in Coleshill last Friday, November 19th, of the death at the front of Charles Peter Neville, of the R.A.M.C. The news came ...
The building of Coleshill Town Hall was completed on 28th November 1925 by John Sumner. His family made their fortune through the Typhoo tea brand, and in 1930 the newly knighted ...
John Sumner was born in 1807, the son of tea merchant, grocer and druggist William Sumner who owned shops in Birmingham and Coleshill.
His diary was gifted to the Warwickshire County ...
Coleshill parish Workhouse was established in Blythe Road in 1750 (the row of cottages at the left-hand end of the first photo above); it was intended for up to 44 ...
In north Warwickshire, the jewel must surely be the River Anker. The Anker is a sparkling majestic delight which rises near the ancient village of Wolvey on the Leicestershire border ...
The Coleshill Civic Society heard that there was a timber framed barn at Daw Mill Colliery that they wanted removed. I approached Avoncroft Building Museum, and they came and looked ...