There does not appear to be a mill here in the Domesday survey of 1086 although there were two in nearby Clifton on Dunsmore. The old photograph shows a railway ...
Dowe bridge carries the A5 over the river Avon where it enters Warwickshire. The old photograph shows a wide bridge but it is hard to get a photograph nowadays because ...
The Warwickshire Avon rises in Naseby (in Northamptonshire) and the old photo shows an overgrown pool of water and the side of a monument. It’s not easy to find the ...
From 1898 to 1903 the Rev. Edward Dew (a Church of England Oxford graduate) worked as a chaplain at Trinity College in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was also an amateur photographer and giver of lectures. Fortunately for ...
The Red Lion has recently been demolished, bringing to an end a staple of Wolston’s village centre. A Mr. T. Walton1 recounted his memories in the early 70s, and remembered ...
I walked down to the main road bridge over the river Avon to try and take my ‘now’ picture, only to find the old bridge hardly visible in the distance. ...
The zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, is a small species of freshwater bivalve mollusc. Its shell has a striped pattern, hence its name. The overall shape of these attractive shells is ...
The elephant
has always been in my family, as long as I can remember. It sits in our house now, out of the way, but still there. It was a wedding ...
Returning to the course of the river Avon: there was a mill at Rugby worth 13s 4d in the Domesday survey. Rugby Mill continued as an active corn mill longer ...
Warwickshire is blessed with beautiful rivers. In the north of what was once Warwickshire one finds the River Rea and to the south of the county lies the River Stour, ...
Rivers are rebels. They ignore human development because their ancient courses run hither and thither across the earth, whether rock, marsh, chalk or clay. They wind and meander all through ...
To me Warwickshire has always felt like border country, the end of the southern half of Britain. This is marked by the old Roman highways of Watling Street from London ...
In north Warwickshire, the jewel must surely be the River Anker. The Anker is a sparkling majestic delight which rises near the ancient village of Wolvey on the Leicestershire border ...
I could find no sign of a mill at Blackdown in the Domesday book, though it may be quite ancient. Bertie Greatheed writes in his diary for August 12th 1807: ...
Whitnash has been settled since pre-Christian Celtic times. The present day church of St Margaret is on a mound which may have been of pagan importance in pre-Christian times. It ...
The Leam was the first Warwickshire river I got to know; beyond Leamington, it has already wound itself across east Warwickshire through the villages of Marton, Eathorpe and under the ...
I have been prompted to revisit the book ‘Exploring Shakespeare Country 100 years ago’ by Stuart Ludlum. This was published in 1985 and so I was surprised to see the ...
This etching of Main Street in the centre of Wolston shows The Beeches and the Red Lion Inn. The Red Lion is no longer a pub, but the building has ...