This small bundle of documents1 is concerned with a specific piece of land in Southam, known as Tattle Bank. During the period covered by the successive documents of 1847-1872, very many persons are ...
I was born at what was then no.11 Main Street, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore. My grandparent’s home was initially known as Pleasant Cottages, and later became no.1 Avon Cottages, Rugby Road, before finishing up ...
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 ...
The village had little in the way of amenities. There was a post office but no village shop. There had been one operated out of a hut in a garden ...
My grandparents Henry and Amy Robbins lived in part of the old mansion buildings which stood on the site of the present Mansion Close until it was demolished in 1964. ...
Verity Fincher wrote down reminiscences of her summer holidays spent at Salford Hall. Her recollections of the building offer an insight into its uses in the early 20th century.
The Squire’s apartments
Our summers at Salford started ...
In early 1933 (year of my birth) my father William (Bill) Miller was a postman in Atherstone. He told me that he cycled down the gravel drive of Grendon Hall ...
When I was a child I would meet up with a small group of four or five of my friends who lived around my street as everyone knew each other ...
Unfortunately, the war came in 1939 and, regrettably, I had to eventually leave J. C. Smith’s to work in a factory for war work. My mother was already working at ...