If you haven’t heard of the British Welcome Club in Leamington Spa, you wouldn’t be the only one. In fact, search the internet for British Welcome Clubs in general and ...
The animals you see displayed at Warwickshire Museum are the result of taxidermy and the majority are of species that occur in the British Isles and, in particular, Warwickshire itself. ...
Here are some Christmas themed snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for December 1914.
Warwick and Country Edition Page 4, Column 5, 4th December 1914
Impact of ...
There are a mix of articles from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for November 1914. Here are a few snippets looking at a War Romance, Carrier ...
The first Original Levi Store in the UK opened at 51 the Parade (now the Vodaphone shop) Leamington in 1987. I was 17 at the time and had a Saturday ...
In the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers, there are lots of snippets of information about life at home and details of local soldiers experiences out on the ...
Reading through the news stories for January and February 1915, there are some interesting war-related births and marriages in Leamington Spa.
In the newspaper, published on 15th January 1915 (Warwick and ...
The steam roller is an 8 ton ‘C’ class roller built by Aveling & Porter Ltd of Rochester, Kent and supplied new to the Royal Borough of Leamington Spa in ...
I had a look through the day book from the ‘Hall & Son, Tailors’ collection held at Warwickshire County Record Office1. Hall & Son were based at 154 The Parade, Leamington ...
Between 1938 and 1945 the women of Warwickshire took on volunteering roles in their local communities to support the war effort (yes even in 1938 they knew war with Germany ...
William Gold followed his father by also working on the railway and at one stage worked in West Bromwich where he met and married Lily Jane Edith Gee, the daughter ...
‘Food is one of the munitions of war’ (Lord Woolton)
From the outset of the Second World War, the Board of Education was extremely pro-active in encouraging schools to lead the way ...
As part of the Shrubland Street School Collection1, there are a number of memoranda that were issued by the Board of Education during the Second World War. Education and ensuring ...
In the 7th August 1914 edition of the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard, there are some interesting articles on how the local residents should continue as business as ...
In part one of this article, I reviewed the building of Christ Church until its closure in 1950. With the mantra of the time being if it’s old it has ...
As I have mentioned in other postings on this site, in the years following the Second World War there seemed to be a frenzy of demolition from which no building ...
Frank Whittle’s achievements in both inventing and developing the jet engine are well-known and well-documented. Indeed, it is not unreasonable to call him one of Warwickshire’s more famous sons, especially ...
On Tuesday 4th August 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany after the German Government rejected the request by the British Government to assure that the neutrality of Belgium would ...
In the 31st July edition of the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard there is an advertisement for Bird’s Custard:
Bird’s custard pre-war
Any Doctor will tell you that in summer, ...
By February 1915, more and more Women were taking up the roles left by men, who had taken up their call of duty to fight for their country. In the ...
Sleepy, genteel Royal Leamington Spa had been immune from none of the concerns post-war. The town’s War Memorial bears witness to the number of its young men who gave their ...
Turpin is one of Leamington’s more famous sporting sons, famous for his sensational triumph over the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. This saw him become World Middleweight Champion although ...
It could be argued that the high point for public dances was during the Second World War, when the boost they gave to the morale of both service personal and ...
During the Second World War a civil servant working at the castle came and told us we had to have someone staying with us, he was doing war work. My ...