The Hippodrome was a large performance space, in which many people gathered to celebrate sports such as dance, boxing and even wrestling. this mostly took place on Saturday evenings. A particular ...
I moved here in 1984, and was approached by the vicar of St Andrews – the reverend David Capron, who wanted to start a Rugby club and asked if I ...
Several huge rugby balls have appeared in Rugby to celebrate the World Cup this autumn. The caption on the plaque explains it well:
Rugby’s got balls. Celebrating the Rugby World Cup ...
These three well-loved statues made of wire stand in a field beside the A426 to the north of Rugby. The plaque beside them says ‘These donkeys were named William, Webb ...
Rugby is celebrating the advent of the Rugby World Cup this autumn in many ways. A striking statue of William Webb Ellis stands in front of Rugby School. The plaque beneath it ...
We have seen in the previous article that Walter’s war experiences had seen him endure great hardship. Alas, that was not to improve. With the conditions in the camp, it ...
Walter’s wartime fighting experience was brief. It was merely months into the war, when he was taken prisoner on 9th September 1914 at Maubeuge, after the French surrendered. He had ...
Walter Kimberley’s wartime experience is one of hardship, effort, determination… and ultimately death, though not by any bullet wound. His is a story that shows war can claim casualties away ...
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 ...
It’s natural, when looking at Warwickshire’s place in tennis histories, to focus on the achievements of the Renshaw brothers. Their dominance of early tennis is well-logged, including on this site. ...
Sir Richard Newdigate of Arbury (1602-1678) was a lawyer and politician. He owned Arbury Hall in Warwickshire and Harefield in Middlesex, served as a judge under Oliver Cromwell and was created ...
It’s a highly topical subject at the moment, and we’ll ignore that particular elephant in the room.
It was the early 1960s when Coventry City Football Club moved their training base ...
A wonderful short film about travelling around Britain by bicycle – with the help of the odd train. An excursion train equipped with cycle vans takes a party of cyclists ...
Think of the grass court tennis season in England, and it is natural to think of Wimbledon, strawberries and cream, and a very ‘English’ tradition. Leamington’s role in that tradition, ...
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Ordinatum est per xii jur’ predictos quod nulli decetero de villata de Atherston’ ludunt ad lusum vocat’ la Teneys sub pena de xld. tociens quociens quod luder’ videntur –
Ordered by ...
Graham Obree (born 1965), known to cycling fans as the ‘Flying Scotsman’, is best known for breaking the World Hour Record on the velodrome twice (1993 and 1994), as well as ...
By a quirk of administrative boundary changes, Warwickshire’s home at Edgbaston is not in the current county. Delve back to its early years however, and some of the key places ...
Tom Wills, educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire, was an Australian sporting genius. He created Australia’s national code of football; and was the central figure in Australia’s most compelling cricket story.
Born ...
Turpin is one of Leamington’s more famous sporting sons, famous for his sensational triumph over the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. This saw him become World Middleweight Champion although ...
Until Webb Ellis’s definitive act, the game of football allowed the ball to be handled, but the player could not hold it and run towards the opposite goal. Progress forward ...
Hosting the Ryder Cup
By 1985, The Belfry was ready to host the Ryder Cup. This was the ultimate test for the Brabazon course and it passed with flying colours, as ...
It is surprising today to realise that a small village like Knowle was very fortunate to have the facilities of a Lido during the years before the Second World War ...
The first racing in Warwick was held in 1694, hoping to raise money for the town after the great fire of that year. The first race at what is now ...
Coventry and Warwickshire has a proud motorsport tradition. Coventry Climax supplied engines to Formula One teams in the 1950s and 60s, and in more recent history John Judd’s engines have ...