I used to work at the hat factory and the slipper factory, mostly Christmas for the slipper factory. It was ladies’ side and men’s side, so we didn’t mix and ...
The animals you see displayed at Warwickshire Museum are the result of taxidermy and the majority are of species that occur in the British Isles and, in particular, Warwickshire itself. ...
During the 19th century, the Jurassic limestone layers of southern and eastern Warwickshire were quarried for flooring, gravestones and walling, and for making lime and cement. Workmen often uncovered amazing fossils ...
The background
In April 2017 Heritage & Culture Warwickshire worked with The Play House and pupils from Westgate Primary to create tales inspired by objects on display at the Market Hall ...
The background
In April 2017 Heritage & Culture Warwickshire worked with The Play House and pupils from Westgate Primary to create tales inspired by objects on display at the Market Hall Museum. Four classes from Westgate Primary ...
When the German army invaded Belgium 250,000 Belgians fled to Britain. Rugby, quite typically of the country’s reactions, established Relief Committees to organise accommodation and fund support1. 200 were settled ...
The invasion of Belgium ruined the life-hopes of many ordinary Belgian folk. One couple was Victor Buelens and Emelie Alice deKeyser from Louvain who had planned their marriage for 22nd ...
The project to catalogue the records of the Rugby engineering firm Willans and Robinson has uncovered many topical references to the First World War.
Following the German invasion of Belgium on ...
Amongst the varied trees of Priory Park, Warwick, there is a particular species that greatly interests me as someone with a vested interest in our ancient geological past. This is ...
I remember Dad and I taking our ponies to be shoed by Harry Jackson, the Blacksmith, in Beausale, when I was a little girl during the 1960s. He lived in ...
This is a real stuffed bear that was probably shot in the Victorian period and was inherited from the Warwick Natural History and Archaeological Society in 1932. It has been ...
In Part one, I looked at the interaction between ribbon weaving in Coventry and Nuneaton and the unrest which arose with the onset of industrialisation in the early 19th century .
However, ...
Coventry and Nuneaton, alongside Bedworth, were great hubs of ribbon weaving in the 18th century. However, the life of a ribbon weaver was not all roses, particularly in the early 19th century.
While ...
My childhood was accompanied by hedgehogs teaching me road safety and not to step out into the road but what do we know about them?
The essential facts
Hedgehogs are around 26cm ...