Donald Healey may be associated with the car company that bears his name, and that was based in Warwick, but his early life started in the south of the country.
An early ...
It may seem curious to discover that the woman who eventually founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America spent a good portion of her life in Wellesbourne. ...
Having rented a summer home in Lochs, she called together a group of girls in the Scottish Highlands, and started her first troop of Girl Guides. When she returned to ...
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 ...
The letter below paints a vivid picture of the traumas of the long voyage out to New Zealand and the hardship and exploitation suffered by the emigrants when they arrived. ...
An interesting set of information survives in the 19th century court records: the calendar of ‘Victualler’s Recognizances’. These have been transcribed by volunteers at the Warwickshire County Record Office and ...
My ancestors, Eli and George Turner, were born and bred in Leamington and went on to lead interesting lives to say the least.
Enlisting with the Union side in the American ...