Charlie wrote many letters home to his family. In this letter he talks wistfully of coming home. He died in action in November 1917.
The letter is performed by Kieron Attwood, ...
Featuring extracts from the 1431 Household Account Book of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Archivist Amanda Williams explains how these extracts shed light on Richard’s famous prisoner, Joan of Arc, ...
I was still at school in Warwick when World War 2 was declared. At first it didn’t make much difference, except having to carry our gas-masks and putting the black-out ...
The war went rolling on and by the start of 1944, things were getting tight. I never remember being hungry, but I certainly remembered being cold. My grandmother used to ...
My wartime memories start rather in Coventry round about 1939, when I would have been five years old. We got bombed out of Coventry after the 14th November Coventry blitz and ...
I eventually left the King’s High School Kindergarten and landed up in the Prep department at Warwick School, but after a while I had to leave for being disruptive and ...
Frederick Elisha Freer was a tent-maker and manufacturer of canvas goods throughout his life and many will remember his business in Smith Street and later West Street, Warwick. He was ...
