It may seem curious to discover that the woman who eventually founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America spent a good portion of her life in Wellesbourne. ...
When Willy returned to England in 1881, the impetuous couple continued to correspond, disregarding parental objections. Daisy was given the opportunity to see Willy at Beauchamp Hall in Leamington when ...
Henry James Stretton-Ward was born in Coventry in 1895. He was the son of James Ward (a lodging house keeper) and Florence Rose Squirrell (the eldest daughter of the Rev. ...
At the time of its demolition the part of the property known as Warneford House had a postal address of 13, Forfield Place, Royal Leamington Spa. Although this part of the ...
Tracing the residents of the property from 1883 onwards has been fairly straightforward because from that year there are surviving street directories. While there are gaps in the series of ...
In the early 20th century the Zenana Missionary society of Leamington was honoured with a number of visits from Cornelia Sorabji, an incredible and pioneering woman who made history in both ...
In the Leamington Spa Courier dated Saturday 30 December 1843, there is an advertisement for a series of lectures on Native Americans. We learn that the Mesquakie chief Joc-o-sot, or Walking Bear, ...
John Machen was born in Scotland, the son of a Glasgow merchant and magistrate. He became a surgeon by profession, and started in practice in Dartmouth, Devon. On 8th August ...
Warwickshire’s links to the transatlantic slave economy are slowly being exposed. Studies on the Greville family of Warwick Castle and Bertie Greatheed of Guy’s Cliffe House show how key figures ...
My paternal grandmother moved to Leamington, from Warwick, in 1897 when she was five. She lived there for the next 90 years before moving back to Warwick not long before ...
My ancestors, Eli and George Turner, were born and bred in Leamington and went on to lead interesting lives to say the least.
Enlisting with the Union side in the American ...