It was the December of 1962, and my husband, two sons and I had been living in Alveston since September at the Baraset farm. This particular winter was a difficult ...
In 1939 when the war was announced, I was 18 years old. I was stood on the side of the road next to the cinema waiting for my mum to ...
I enjoy all types of dancing, including quickstep, bopping, foxtrot, tango, however my favourite was always waltz. I had dancing lessons from young age, with Silvia Atkinson who taught ballroom ...
It dawned on me that I hadn’t seen the traditional Morris dancers in the village where I grew up lately – funny the things you miss that you took for ...
The Fleur de Lys pub at Lowsonford is famous for its pies. The classic pie was chicken and mushroom or steak and kidney, originally baked here by Mr Brookes in the ...
Mary Tilson lived in the early – mid 18th century. In 1732, she married Henry Wise, second surviving son and namesake of Royal gardener Henry Wise and his wife Patience. ...
(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 used to play in the crater when I was a child, that must have been about the early ’50s. That crater was around the back of School Street, the ...
The Warwickshire County Record Office has, naturally, a vast array of recipes within its archive. Mary Wise’s cookbook is well-known, but there are many other culinary delights dating from the 16th ...
The geological collections of the Warwickshire Museum were initiated by the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society during the 19th century.
Brave entrepreneurs
Amongst the many curiosities collected back then are a small ...
Warwickshire Museum‘s collections include many books on natural history, geology and palaeontology, acquired during the 19th century by the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. These include volumes written by some ...
WARNING: Please do not attempt this recipe at home, it comes with a risk of some very nasty (and potentially fatal) bugs – especially if you follow the original recipe’s ...
This recipe, which was kindly chosen for me, is from a recipe book in the Eleanor Archer collection1. Although the book itself is believed to have belonged to her mother, ...
This month’s recipe is a collective effort. To mark Shrove Tuesday, we decided to do a Batter Pudding – a recipe to be found in an enigmatically entitled archive, Eathorpe ...
Joseph Ashby of Tysoe wrote about rural life in a series of articles called ‘Through Warwickshire Villages’ in the Warwick Advertiser during the 1890s; the following are extracts from one of ...
This recipe – probably dating to sometime in the 1920s – comes from a Warwickshire County Record Office document (reference CR4694/63) which is a notebook of recipes, homemade medicines, and knitting ...
I signed up for the heritage cooking challenge as I like cooking, and I thought I’d be able to give it a decent attempt…
Looking through the list, I thought I would ...
This recipe is taken from the Elizabeth Barkham’s recipe book, c.1664-1680. The pages are paper in a limp vellum cover, entitled (on cover, very faint) “Madam Elizabeth Barkham her book, ...
Whether the buns I produced are anything like the ones produced in 1650 one will never know. They were jolly tasty, but not sufficiently so to warrant all the time ...
My heritage recipe challenge was to tackle this delightful invention found in the Wise family records.1 The 18th century writing is clear and the instructions quite simple and not too daunting. ...
The background
In April 2017 Heritage & Culture Warwickshire worked with The Play House and pupils from Westgate Primary to create tales inspired by objects on display at the Market Hall ...
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 ...
The recipe book
Divided into sections for cookery, preserving, physicke and chiurgery. Index at back. 350 pages. This belongs to the Newdigate collection. It is undated but estimated to be early ...
