If you haven’t heard of the British Welcome Club in Leamington Spa, you wouldn’t be the only one. In fact, search the internet for British Welcome Clubs in general and ...
Here are some Christmas themed snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for December 1914.
Warwick and Country Edition Page 4, Column 5, 4th December 1914
Impact of ...
There are a mix of articles from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for November 1914. Here are a few snippets looking at a War Romance, Carrier ...
Here are some more snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard newspapers. In this post, we are looking at a few articles published in the October 1914 ...
This month, the snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for March 1915, are focused on billeting and soldiers entertainment. The newspapers mentioned the billeting of ...
In the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers, there are lots of snippets of information about life at home and details of local soldiers experiences out on the ...
Reading through the news stories for January and February 1915, there are some interesting war-related births and marriages in Leamington Spa.
In the newspaper, published on 15th January 1915 (Warwick and ...
This month, the snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for January 1915, are a mix of stories from the front, life at home and some ...
I had a look through the day book from the ‘Hall & Son, Tailors’ collection held at Warwickshire County Record Office1. Hall & Son were based at 154 The Parade, Leamington ...
Between 1938 and 1945 the women of Warwickshire took on volunteering roles in their local communities to support the war effort (yes even in 1938 they knew war with Germany ...
William Gold followed his father by also working on the railway and at one stage worked in West Bromwich where he met and married Lily Jane Edith Gee, the daughter ...
‘Food is one of the munitions of war’ (Lord Woolton)
From the outset of the Second World War, the Board of Education was extremely pro-active in encouraging schools to lead the way ...
As part of the Shrubland Street School Collection1, there are a number of memoranda that were issued by the Board of Education during the Second World War. Education and ensuring ...
In the 7th August 1914 edition of the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard, there are some interesting articles on how the local residents should continue as business as ...
In the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwick Standard published on 7th August 1914, there is an interesting newspaper article describing the journey of a party of 20 Americans as ...
On Tuesday 4th August 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany after the German Government rejected the request by the British Government to assure that the neutrality of Belgium would ...
In the 31st July edition of the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard there is an advertisement for Bird’s Custard:
Bird’s custard pre-war
Any Doctor will tell you that in summer, ...
By February 1915, more and more Women were taking up the roles left by men, who had taken up their call of duty to fight for their country. In the ...
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced £100,000 towards the restoration of the UK graves of First World War Victoria Cross heroes. The project, in association with the Victoria Cross Trust, ...
During the Second World War a civil servant working at the castle came and told us we had to have someone staying with us, he was doing war work. My ...
War-time memories
During the war we used to hide under the table during air raids: we weren’t allowed to go into the public shelters because of my father’s occupation.. I’ve donated ...
I was born and brought up in Clapham Square, one of ten children. Sadly, one of my brothers George was drowned in the canal with a friend when he was ...
Like many other counties during World War Two, Warwickshire rallied around its wounded soldiers, holding large parties and shows in an effort to keep their spirits up.1 Entertainment at these events could ...
In the early 20th century, Ernest Carl Maisey was a well-known and popular figure around Warwick and Leamington. He was born in Leamington Spa on 5 February 1879, the son ...