From the age of about four we used to go and visit Nanny every Sunday for dinner and we used to go to the farm opposite, Boddington Farm I think. We ...
When I was 13 years old, the Second World War began and I was evacuated. From Birmingham St Andrews, I was sent to Stratford upon Avon on Friday – two ...
This small bundle of documents1 is concerned with a specific piece of land in Southam, known as Tattle Bank. During the period covered by the successive documents of 1847-1872, very many persons are ...
The war left a high level of tension in Stratford, with a lot of people suffering with nerves and anxiety affecting many families in town. To add to this there ...
I was born at what was then no.11 Main Street, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore. My grandparent’s home was initially known as Pleasant Cottages, and later became no.1 Avon Cottages, Rugby Road, before finishing up ...
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 ...
My first car was a Scootacar, which I owned when I lived in Coventry. I bought this from my sister’s work colleague in about 1966 for £35, which I borrowed from ...
Two of the collections available at the Warwickshire County Record Office relate to a mother and son and the impact that World War II had upon their lives.
Beatrice Golby
CR 4479 ...
Continuing the extracts from Julie Barnett’s account of her wartime childhood.1
A schoolboy, Percy, pumped the organ in church. His ‘family, like mine lived in Eathorpe, they had a thatched cottage ...
(Continued from part one)
Rock around the clock
Before the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll and its arrival in Britain, the most popular form of music amongst young people was Skiffle. Influenced ...
What was life like as a teenager 60 years ago in the mid 1950s?
We have a Technicolor image of post-war 50s, but whilst America experienced fast-rising rates of prosperity and ...
I’ve always lived in Warwick and was born in Warwick; my husband grew up in Warwick too so we’ve got a lot of memories about Warwick.
The greengrocer
My father-in-law used to ...
I was five years old when I came to Warwick. My first memories are of going to my first school, All Saints School it was then. They used to have ...
Reading through the news stories for January and February 1915, there are some interesting war-related births and marriages in Leamington Spa.
In the newspaper, published on 15th January 1915 (Warwick and ...
Part one of this article explored the first deaths included in James Brown’s poem The Warning Voice, but he had not yet concluded his tale!
The young woman
The next to fall ...
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 ...
Warwick had not taken the news that his engagement was ended, well. Within a week of the engagement being broken, he had incurred extensive bills at the Ritz Hotel, had ...
There was a cold breeze sweeping by as they stepped off the train. The slight patter of rain dripped onto the eagerly anticipating journalists who had been waiting all morning ...
What of the village itself? Socially, it was largely working class: farm workers and men and some women who commuted to work, either by bike or bus, to work in ...
The village had little in the way of amenities. There was a post office but no village shop. There had been one operated out of a hut in a garden ...
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. ...
Henry Street (1825-1899):- Fellmonger and owner of the Skin Works at 78 West Street Warwick. © HP Street
Catherine Agnes Street (née Goode) married Henry Louis Street at Hatton Church ...
There are a handful of treasures dispersed around the museums of the world which still bear the name ‘Warwick’. This is despite many of them having left the town quite ...
After reading the article Hillmorton in the 1880s, I thought I’d share what I have found out by using the censuses – a real trip back in time ! I’ve ...
