(Continued from part one)
So it was, on Tuesday 11th June 1861 the train which had passed over the bridge less than an hour earlier fully laden, left Leamington Spa station ...
With today’s interpretation of the Health & Safety laws it is easy to forget the rather laxed attitude towards H&S that prevailed in times past. Unfortunately, this was an attitude ...
Never seen before colour photographs…
During the early hours of 6th June 1975 a London to Glasgow sleeper train derailed at Nuneaton with the loss of six lives. Nuneaton Memories have ...
In 1928 a tragedy occurred in Rugby when a balloon being piloted by Percival Spencer crash landed on No. 4 Hillmorton Road. This was a Rugby School boarding house run by the Rev. J.M. ...
Nuneaton Memories have conducted more interviews on a number of subjects. For further details, visit this page.
We’re accustomed these days to the sad news of fatal car-accidents on a daily basis, but in 1899 petrol-driven internal-combustion vehicles had only recently been invented and were an uncommon ...
In part one, I discussed the background to the Suevic running aground off the Lizard and the account of a passenger, Warwickshire woman Mrs. Ireland.
When the ship first hit the ...
With Warwickshire having two locations that claim to be the centre of England, the old cross at Meriden and the former Midland Oak at Lillington, it is probably pretty safe ...
The crash occurred on 6 June 1975, on the West Coast Main Line just south of Nuneaton railway station. The accident occurred at approximately 01.55, as the train approached Nuneaton ...
