1 Barbed arrowhead, concave base. In Coventry Museum.
Findspot - a barbed arrowhead of Bronze Age date was found in the area of Ryton on Dunsmore.
1 Quern of Hunsbury type noted on lawn. Feb 1949.
2 No further information.
3 Now in Coventry Museum.
Findspot - an Iron Age quern stone, used for grinding grain, was found near the Brandon Hall Hotel.
1 Barbed and tanged arrowhead. Now in Coventry Museum.
2 Petit-tranched derivative arrowhead.
Findspot - two flint arrowheads dating to the Bronze Age were found 800m west of Clifford Chambers.
A 500-mile cycling and walking network is being set up in the West Midlands and named the ‘Starley network’. This prompted me to investigate further: there’s a Starley statue I ...
The Murder of Charles Pinchback and the subsequent bringing to justice of the two criminals who murdered him has been recorded in the Burial Register for the Parish of St ...
The Coventry Blitz was a series of bombing raids that took place on Coventry during World War Two. By far the most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940. ...
On the A45 Fletchamstead Highway in Coventry is the Phantom Coach pub – one of my grandfather’s drinking places back in the 1930s. Curious as to how it got its ...
I married Ken Ashford on 23rd December 1939. He was a Coventry kid. We met at my Grandmother’s house. I moved to Coventry where we lived with Ken’s father and ...
From 26th July until 2nd August 1979 there was an international scout jamboree in Priory Park in Warwick. I was in Newbold-on-Stour Sea Scouts at the time. The name of ...
This almshouse was founded in 1529 by William Ford, a wool merchant, for five men and their wives. The Hospital came under threat after the Reformation, with the crown claiming ...
During World War Two I was working as a radio engineer and had already seen many nights of air raids over Coventry.
Everywhere was lit up
The night of the Blitz, I ...
As a kid, history had always fascinated me with lots of visits to Kenilworth Castle not far from Coventry on my bike. I never had a camera back then, so ...
1 Tumulus marked.
2 ?Barrow, now destroyed. On Lammas Hill.
3 Excavated 1950s, B Hobley, windmill.
4 This feature was excavated by Coventry Museum who concluded that it was a windmill mound.
5 Scheduling ...
The site of a possible round barrow, a mound usually built to conceal a burial. The barrow would date to the Bronze Age. The site is located on Lammas Hill. The results of an excavation in the 1950s concluded that it was actually a windmill mound.
I do still go round Coventry city centre, which has changed a bit from my time as a student. The old fire station is still there, by Pool Meadow bus ...
The experience of being bombed in Birmingham during World War Two was something we all wanted to escape from.
Escape to Heronfield, near Knowle
Clarice & Richard Usher, my paternal grandparents, ...
My wartime memories start rather in Coventry round about 1939, when I would have been five years old. We got bombed out of Coventry after the 14th November Coventry blitz and ...
During World War Two George, my husband, was in a reserved occupation tool-making for war factories. I was a housewife and we lived in Three Spires Avenue. Our son Glynn ...
After leaving school in 1983, I went to Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, as it then was, at the start of the Michaelmas Term in 1983 to study a BTEC Higher National ...
Sunday school attendance dipped sharply after the Blitz when children were evacuated and never recovered to its former numbers of over 100. For several Sundays after the Blitz the Sunday ...
After his role in the First World War, August Schneider returned to Kenilworth.
Back to Germany
Life continued to be difficult for the family in Kenilworth after the war and in May ...
Sidney Slatter was working for his father in Whichford, Shipston on Stour, when he faced conscription in March 1916. It was feared that his call-up to war would mean disaster for ...
The A45 London Road passes through Ryton on Dunsmore and past Knightlow Hill, where the ancient Wroth Silver ceremony takes place each St Martin’s Eve. There is, however, a phenomena ...
I was still at school in Warwick when World War 2 was declared. At first it didn’t make much difference, except having to carry our gas-masks and putting the black-out ...
I first started working on the Queensway part-time in the December of 1984 at a company called Al-Ko B&B. It occupied the site where Queensway Court is now. Al-Ko was ...