The Saxon Mill originally belonged to the Augustinian St Mary’s Abbey in Kenilworth and then formed part of the Guy’s Cliffe estate. It was rebuilt in 1822 and appears to ...
This article, written in March 1997, reflects on 40 years of research at Warwickshire County Record Office. The author, Revd. Dr. Anthony Upton, and his wife have each continued their research since ...
Here’s a nicely evocative couple of shots from the Reg Bull collection of photographs. These photos are nicely catalogued with dates, but here there’s a rather blatant clue as to ...
According to the Nuneaton Chronicle of November 2nd 1951, you could see Robin Hood of Texas. Now, I thought I knew my myth and legend, but I don’t know this version! ...
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It is not clear why the Benedictine nuns chose Princethorpe in Warwickshire. The site certainly had (and still has) attractive features: it was raised up, surrounded by ...
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 ...
St Peter and St John’s Church in Clifton Road Rugby may be relatively modern, but it has an intriguing history. As part of a Church open day on Sat August ...
The bombing of Coventry in November 1940 was one of the more destructive raids of the Second World War. A week later, about twenty children from my junior school in ...
The Black Path was so called because it was originally surfaced with cinders. It was a footbridge built in the early 20th century across the railway to help workers living ...
These stunning photographs from the top of St Mary’s Church Tower in Warwick were taken by Dr Hubert Tibbits.
Twice Mayor of Warwick
Dr Hubert Tibbits followed both his father’s and grandfather’s ...
Two cards were given to me by my neighbour, they’re part of a large collection of postcards, of local people.They’re photos from the late 1800s, some of them.
These postcards refer ...
Rather surprisingly the Rev Dew finished his ‘Trip down the River Avon’ talk in Warwick, rather than continuing on down to the river Severn, though perhaps there was a part ...
I walked down to the main road bridge over the river Avon to try and take my ‘now’ picture, only to find the old bridge hardly visible in the distance. ...
We take it for granted that our roads today are relatively wide and straight, well-engineered and surfaced, with good and consistent signage and often attractive roadside planting. It was not ...
My grandfather Henry Robbins, 1863-1950 lived in Bishops Itchington all of his life. Following his marriage to my grandmother Amy Hemmings in 1891, they lived in the old mansion buildings. ...
My grandparents Henry and Amy Robbins lived in part of the old mansion buildings which stood on the site of the present Mansion Close until it was demolished in 1964. ...
This fascinating picture gives us an important record of the industrial revolution in Warwickshire. The textile mill was built for Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury Hall (1719-1806) on his land to ...
It is sad to see the remains of the Great Western pub that has been badly damaged. A fierce fire broke out in the afternoon of 24th August 2017 and ...
Originally a wake was a commemoration for the founding of a church, an all-night vigil. However the celebrations spread to Saturday and then Monday and the term came to mean ...
It’s Christmas Eve, 1906. Humber have long had a reputation for their cycles, being pioneers in the field and being renowned for their quality. Having moved into automobile manufacture in ...
At the time George Wise inherited Woodcote he was unmarried, and at the age of 53, already had another home in Surrey. He died in 1888 and the family estates ...
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 ...
My earliest memory of Rootes was the annual visit to the pantomime at the Coventry Hippodrome with the other kids of Rootes workers. We all got a Christmas stocking of ...