Within the records held at the Warwickshire County Record Office are those related to the papers of Phelps and Bracebridge & Co., Soap and Alkali manufacturers (CR181c/3). Despite conducting their ...
Esther (‘Hester’) Jackson Jones was born in Grendon. She was baptised in Grendon on 14th April 1816. Only the mother is identified in the baptismal register.
Hester married Joseph Dester of Bramcote in ...
These stunning photographs from the top of St Mary’s Church Tower in Warwick were taken by Dr Hubert Tibbits.
Twice Mayor of Warwick
Dr Hubert Tibbits followed both his father’s and grandfather’s ...
An article concerning these photos can be found at the following link.
At the time George Wise inherited Woodcote he was unmarried, and at the age of 53, already had another home in Surrey. He died in 1888 and the family estates ...
Although somewhat dilapidated in the present day, Guy’s Cliffe House has had a full history, with much change over a number of years. Even in its current isolated state off ...
Mr Alfred Jordan was a lengthman at the beginning of World War 2, and so was exempt from having to serve in the war because of this...
In 1506, William Cope sold the manor of Wormleighton to his wife’s cousin, John Spencer of Snitterfield beginning a long association between the Spencer family and Wormleighton.
John Spencer built a manor ...
In 1851, Henry Christopher Wise sold the Warwick Priory and 37 acres of its parkland to the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Co, which planned to lay its railway track through ...
At the time of its demolition the part of the property known as Warneford House had a postal address of 13, Forfield Place, Royal Leamington Spa. Although this part of the ...
Tracing the residents of the property from 1883 onwards has been fairly straightforward because from that year there are surviving street directories. While there are gaps in the series of ...
Photo shows Mr William Worrall in the employ of Garside Phillips; we think the photo dates around 1920 but are not sure. Garside Phillips owned the former Ansley Hall and ...
While browsing the census records for Hillmorton in search of my family home, I couldn’t help but get drawn into the other names and families that surrounded them.
Bricks and sandpits
For example, in the ...
Home thoughts from abroad?
Well from the Isle of Wight actually and unlike the poem by Robert Browning, it was September rather than April, but apart from that……..
Anyway, it was in ...
Interviews with John Gardner, Terry Westwood, John Harris, Paul Hunt, Paul Stanforth and Roger Beard on working the Geoff and Brian Healey.
John Gardner had various jobs at the Cape Works ...
Interviews with John Gardner on Donald Healey as a designer and setting up his own company and with Tony Marshall talking about Donald Healey’s connections with Fiat.
John Gardner had various ...