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 ...
Following my posting about my time at Henry Griffith and Sons, there have been a number of comments added asking about the marks inside HG&S rings.
The answer to most of ...
This letter contains a beautiful hand coloured draft plan for the development of land on both the north and south sides of the River Leam and includes an area of ...
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. ...
‘Alien’ species are organisms that have been transported from one part of the world to an area beyond their natural range. This type of species introduction is often due to ...
Women’s Suffrage is better known today through images of Emmeline Pankhurst (who had read pamphlets authored by Shaw during her period of imprisonment in 1912), and militant acts such as Emily ...
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 thing to say is that until some time between 1876 and 1880, the property was actually numbered as 9 George Street. It changed to number 22 when the ...
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 ...
I started employment with Automotive Products (AP) in June 1976 (a very hot year!) with the grand title of ‘Group Photographic Controller’ at their headquarters in Tachbrook Road.
A vast site
Such ...
Here are some more snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard newspapers. In this post, we are looking at a few articles published in the October 1914 ...
This month, the snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for March 1915, are focused on billeting and soldiers entertainment. The newspapers mentioned the billeting of ...
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 ...
This month, the snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for January 1915, are a mix of stories from the front, life at home and some ...
One of the last shops to go in Leamington was Toytown, a much loved emporium, haunted by generations of children. It sold everything from Steiff Bears to pocket money toys. In ...
Guy’s Cliffe House just outside Warwick lies on a good exposure of middle Triassic sandstone. The rock is a geological site of special scientific interest and on the geological conservation ...
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 ...
If I had a penny for every time that had happened, I would be a millionaire.
Or so the old saying goes.
With inflation, this is now probably one pound, but the ...
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 ...
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 ...