Little Jim’s cottage is no longer there (not altogether surprising, when looking at the photo from 1970) but the cottage, and Jim himself, is immortalised in poetry:
The cottage was a ...
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! ...
In 1961-1962, I went to see the Beatles at the Co-op. You had to queue all the way down Edwards Street. We had to buy the tickets in advance. They ...
I worked at Granada Bingo from 1976 for about 10 years. We moved to the site on the corner of North Street and Everuex Way after previously being in Bank ...
The Plaza opened on 30th January 1933 to There Goes the Bride starring Jessie Matthews and Owen Nares, work having started on the site in May 1932. Being renamed the ...
After four years of the Transformation project, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre opened its doors once more in 2010 after substantial redevelopment. Much of the art deco detailing of Elisabeth Scott’s ...
Jessamine Victoria Bradley was born in Derby on 25th May 1897. She was the daughter of William Edge Bradley, a clerk for the Midland Railway, and Louise Violet Squirrell, who ...
A Mr. Cole wrote down his reminiscences of his childhood in Kenilworth and Warwickshire, around the time of the First World War. His memories of visiting the early cinema in ...
The Kosy Kinema was on Lister Street, and opened on Monday 21st March, 1932. The cinema was the brainchild of Mr. F. Roberts, who ran a furnishing firm at Queen’s ...
To identify exactly what inspires great works of art is an impossible task. However, when presented with the ideal subject artists often flock to paint, draw or sculpt it.
Warwick Castle, ...
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The second Earl was not only a collector of art, but seemed to enjoy participating in the creation of it too. It has been noted that both ...
By the year 1816 the walls of Warwick Castle held one of England’s most ambitious collections of Old Master Portraiture ever assembled. Despite the sale of the Castle in 1978 ...
You may not be aware that Warwick was visited on at least two occasions by one of the most famous painters of the 18th century. Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) was ...