(Continued from part one)
So it was, on Tuesday 11th June 1861 the train which had passed over the bridge less than an hour earlier fully laden, left Leamington Spa station ...
With today’s interpretation of the Health & Safety laws it is easy to forget the rather laxed attitude towards H&S that prevailed in times past. Unfortunately, this was an attitude ...
The William James Heritage Trail remembers William James (1771-1837) who built the tramway in Stratford.
The line started at the Stratford Canal Basin in the north and crossed the river before ...
I was around 10 years old when, on one particular weekend, there was a church fete which I visited with a group of friends from the area. We looked round ...
Identifying ancestors who worked the canals can be problematic and researchers have found that canal boat ancestors may not have registered the births of their children, or even their marriages. ...
Glasshouse Lane
This lane lead to Glasshouse Wood where John Timms operated glass kilns in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It appears as the “Road to the Glasshouse” in ...
Adcock Drive
This road commemorates Councillor Florence Adcock (above), the first lady Mayor of Kenilworth in 1979. It was built in part of the former grounds of Park House, which was ...
There’s something irresistibly intriguing about old paths and highways that were once well trodden but are now more often than not forgotten or overgrown. Across the years, they’ve attracted the ...
Bertie Road
Construction of this road started in 1885 and was completed in 1886 as a cul-de-sac from Waverley Road. It was named after Hubert Clarke, son of landowner William, one-time ...
Caesar Road
Caesar Road commemorates Caesar Tower, the 16th century name for the Keep of Kenilworth Castle. It was registered in 1963 (the road, not the tower!).
Rouncil Lane
This is the longest ...
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 ...
Fancott Drive
This was first recorded in 1987 and was developed by the High Street bakers A.S. Fancott (established 1825) at the rear of the bakery, over an existing lane generally ...
The Black Path was so called because it was originally surfaced with cinders. It was a footbridge built in the early 20th century across the railway to help workers living ...
Two original stained glass windows and a Kenilworth rail station sign salvaged from the town’s former station have been donated to Warwickshire County Council with the aim of including them ...
Two cards were given to me by my neighbour, they’re part of a large collection of postcards, of local people.They’re photos from the late 1800s, some of them.
These postcards refer ...
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. ...
We take it for granted that our roads today are relatively wide and straight, well-engineered and surfaced, with good and consistent signage and often attractive roadside planting. It was not ...
Rugby is of course well known for its train station, and part of the reason for the town’s dramatic growth in the Victorian era is its status as an important ...
I’ve always been interested in why streets have certain names, yet my interest hasn’t been the etymological background to names, nor even the history of streets that have existed in ...
Cross the Fosse Way by Halford now, and you pass by the old 16th century Halford Bridge Inn on the right before crossing the River Stour. Although a pretty road ...
Welsh Road East and Welsh Road West are so called because they are the route of the old drovers’ road through Southam that dates from way back before the Elizabethan ...
The name comes from archery: a butt is either the target itself or a mound of earth behind it to safely absorb badly-aimed arrows. Archery was an important part of ...
A local schoolmaster Mr Hassall mentions this station in his school logbook:
Jan. 15th 1892. The new books for the library to the worth of £4. 10. 0 arrived at Brandon ...
We used to go down the Fosse Way to visit my Aunt, in Swindon. It wasn’t the same as now, it was a very quiet road and hardly anybody used ...