For a small village, Church Lawford certainly had its fair share of clock makers, of which Daniel Dalton was one. There is an intriguing record that may explain how the ...
In times gone by, the way to learn a craft and earn a living was to be apprenticed to a master. You would be legally bound to the master for ...
The length of time involved in an apprenticeship – often seven or even ten years – inevitably meant that there were problems, some more serious than others. The records cared ...
Many of the apprentice records held by Warwickshire County Record Office relate to paupers. The parish had to care for children when their parents died or became unable to support ...
On 11th January, 1711, the following advertisement appeared in the London edition of ‘The Tatler’: –
This is to give notice, That at the ‘Seven Stars’ under the piazzas in Covent-Garden ...
(continued from the Master Bakers of Coventry)
The ‘property’ of the Bakers’ Company was handed over to the Corporation of Coventry by Mr Thomas Windridge, c.1908.
It consists of:
Three books of minutes ...
On browsing through the minutes of the Coventry & District Master Bakers Association, which are kept in the City Archives, I found many interesting items relating to the bakery trade ...
2016 sees the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Capability Brown (CB300).
He was baptised on 30 August 1716 at Kirkharle, Northumberland, the son of a yeoman farmer and a ...
Unlike the County Gaol and the House of Correction which adjoined it, as well as St. Mary’s Church nearby, the Shire Hall suffered little damage in the Warwick great fire ...
In recent decades, the focus of archivists and conservators has moved beyond the text alone and we have begun to realise the importance and historical value of the book as ...
The Cocks family led their life at Napton Locks as carpenters on the Oxford Canal for more than a hundred years. The story begins with Thomas Cock who was born ...
