One of the best-known features of the little church of St Milburga in the scattered hamlet of Wixford near Alcester, is the enormous yew tree outside the south porch. In ...
This letter contains a beautiful hand coloured draft plan for the development of land on both the north and south sides of the River Leam and includes an area of ...
I took these photos in Ryton Pools Country Park. The enterprising snail was about seven feet from the ground; I don’t know whether it was after leaves or the rose hips. ...
The steam roller is an 8 ton ‘C’ class roller built by Aveling & Porter Ltd of Rochester, Kent and supplied new to the Royal Borough of Leamington Spa in ...
This vegetable garden in the Murray School grounds was started as part of the boys’ studies and continued during the First World War as part of the local effort to help ...
Early allotments
The ribbon manufacturers Charles Bray and James Cash set up the ‘Coventry Labourers’ and Artisans’ Co-operative Society’ in 1843. They provided 400 small allotments on four sites around the ...
While looking through some documents at the County Record Office recently I came across a somewhat faded photograph of a rather gnarled ancient oak tree. The handwritten caption beneath it ...
Amongst the varied trees of Priory Park, Warwick, there is a particular species that greatly interests me as someone with a vested interest in our ancient geological past. This is ...
Warwickshire Museum holds a seed from the coco de mer palm tree and it is definitely worth a look as it is possibly one of the original specimens making up the ...
The historical background and development of gardens has always interested me. When I first started my research work, I regret to say that I had never even been into my ...
Following on from ‘Daffodils in December’ I looked around the garden and found ‘Japonica in January’ also flowering early. (To be honest it was there in December too but that ...
2016 sees the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Capability Brown (CB300).
He was baptised on 30 August 1716 at Kirkharle, Northumberland, the son of a yeoman farmer and a ...
This photo was taken in my back garden on New Year’s Day. And the first of these daffodils opened on December 16th so it really was ‘Daffodils in December’ at ...
Woodlands School
When I was three, I went to the Woodlands School. I can still remember the big red tubular rocking horse there. We used to line up for a glass ...
Verity Fincher wrote down reminiscences of her childhood holidays. Her recollections of the Hollands Pleasure Gardens and taking the Steamer up the river offer an insight into childhood in Bidford in the ...
Southam had the second oldest allotments in Warwickshire, set up in 1824 on poor’s land. By the 1890s there was an active Allotment Association with 271 acres of allotments (1.7 ...
I remember as child travelling from Banbury to Jephson Gardens in about 1950 to see the famous illuminations. Each year’s illumination had a different theme, the theme for my visit ...
All over the county there are many beautiful gardens and parks. For example, you may know of the famous Jephson Gardens in Leamington Spa, and the charming grounds at Charlecote ...
Humphry Repton was a distinguished landscape gardener; born in 1752 he died in 1818 and so his life and work are being celebrated nationally in this year of his bicentenary. Where his ...
I have very hazy memories of the camp. I was born there in the early 1950s, and my parents must have moved in only a little while earlier. Mum always ...
This handwritten book of notes on flowers and gardens was compiled by Anne Greville (1829-1903), née Charteris, 4th Countess of Warwick. It records, with a phenomenal attention to detail, the ...
I am lucky enough to live near Victoria Park, and also as a child my Nan lived in the house I now own, so I have visited the park nearly ...
James Clarke Caswall was 17 when he entered service as a midshipman on HMS Orlando in August 1863. The Orlando was a huge, steam-powered, wooden warship, with three masts and ...
Elms in Warwickshire were a common sight before the 1970s. Indeed, the English elm hedgerow trees were termed the Warwickshire Weed. Tall and distinctive trees, the timber was often used ...