It was on 22nd March 1916 at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt. Edith had converted to Catholicism in order to ...
Rupert Brooke’s father William was a teacher at Rugby School who ran his home, 5 Hillmorton Road, as a boarding house for boys from the school. This is where Rupert ...
For some people, autumn is a rather magical time of year. Colourful trees, drawn days and crisp nights, it presents us with the perfect opportunity to wrap up and contemplate ...
The writer Philip Larkin was born in Coventry on 9th August 1922. He began writing at an early age, and after studying English at Oxford, he became a librarian at ...
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South Farm, Arbury, Nuneaton
We lived there from 1922-1924. Owned by the Newdigate family who lived at Arbury Hall. He was governor of the Bahamas for 2 years while ...
We found an absorbing new interest for our retirement when we joined Coventry Photographic Society five years ago. When researching the society’s history and updating its society’s website, we discovered ...
Today, Rupert Brooke is possibly best known as a War Poet and is included on the Poets of the First World War memorial in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, alongside fellow poets, Wilfred Owen, Edmund ...