Even when on holiday it’s difficult to escape…
Anyway, the pictures are of Lyeden New Bield, Northamptonshire. Unusual inasmuch as what you see is not a ruin, this is the state ...
Previously, we had seen the struggle for survival of the ‘Parrott House’ in Stretton on Dunsmore. Threatened with demolition, a solution had been found where the house was bought by ...
Rewind back to 1975, and we’d left the Parrott House story at a time when the building was under threat of demolition. The owners at the time have failed to ...
As Clandon Park House in Surrey went up in flames so quickly in April 2015, it showed once again how fragile the items of the past could be. To me, ...
The main aim of attaching a seal to a document is to prove the authenticity of a document by proving a relationship between the document and the seal itself. Seals ...
One of the more obscure sources of information for family historians focussing on the 18th Century are the returns of hair powder certificates. The collection of Occupational and Quarter Sessions ...
Harvington Hall in Worcestershire is a fine Elizabethan moated manor house that for many years belonged to the Throckmorton family who are based at Coughton Court in Warwickshire. Sir Robert ...
Before 1798, there is often ambiguity about whether the owners or occupiers are listed as proprietors. The names can be out of date, as changes were not always updated straight ...
Land Tax was one of the innovative schemes of the British government to increase revenue. Introduced in 1692, in the reign of William III and Mary, and finally abolished in ...
What is a house in Virginia doing on a site about Warwickshire? At first, this may appear to be a strange choice for an article on this website, at least ...
An interesting set of information survives in the 19th century court records: the calendar of ‘Victualler’s Recognizances’. These have been transcribed by volunteers at the Warwickshire County Record Office and ...
My vision was to make a workers’ college of Easton where for so many generations its occupiers had taken as their right the best that the world can offer. All ...
Daisy, Countess of Warwick, had a special relationship with Easton Lodge, her ancestral seat – more so than she had an affinity with Warwick Castle. She had grown up in ...
My collection of Warwickshire collieries. Alvecote is the only one missing from the pits that were nationalised.
In Anglo-Saxon times (broadly 410 AD to 1066 AD), what we know as ‘Warwickshire’ was gradually taking shape. Over a thousand years ago, our county would have looked very different. ...
Before 1947 there were some gruesome stories of how pit ponies were treated. Warning: these stories contain graphic accounts of animal cruelty.