At Christmas time families often have their own traditions and stories for the holiday period, unique to their own personal histories and communities. In many cases, these stories are represented ...
It isn’t Christmas without a mince pie and once upon a time it wouldn’t have been a mince pie without the addition of actual minced meat. When the Warwickshire County ...
It’s funny the things you find when looking for something else.
A regular visitor to the Warwickshire County Record Office (name withheld to protect the guilty) drew our attention to a ...
1 Ten Royalist burials (c. 1642) still wearing tattered clothes were discovered by labourers digging for stone during 1815. This would be during construction of a farm after the Enclosures. ...
The possible site of a cemetery dating to the Post Medieval period. This may be the burial place casualties from the Royalist side in the Civil War battle of Southam in 1642. The site was discovered in 1815 and is situated 800m south east of Bascote.
Bonfire Night is one custom that has featured consistently over the centuries since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. On occasion a focus for religious tension, and waxing and waning in ...
1 Eight in situ graves were located clustered together in the east corner of the burial ground. The burials were all in coffins and the graves were aligned on the ...
During archeological work at Castle Hill Baptist Church eight burials were discovered. These burials date to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods.
This handsome building was erected as part of the rebuilding of Warwick after the Great Fire of 1694. It was acquired by Warwick Town Council in order to provide more space for the ...