Not that I remember it, but we moved to Wellesbourne when I was two and a half years old in 1967. It was on a new estate, called the Willowdene ...
Although Daisy was thoroughly devoted to her husband, it cannot be said the same for him. Willy had a roving eye and was very keen on women. In 1901, Anna ...
On Sunday 10th February 2019 commemorations were held for the hundredth anniversary of the death of trade unionist and MP, Joseph Arch. Coming from a family of agricultural labourers, he ...
1 A three runway bomber airfield, with extra facilities for use by fighter aircraft, opened 12 July 1941. From July 1941 to Sept 1942 was a satellite to RAF Wellesbourne ...
RAF Atherstone on Stour, a Second World War bomber airfield with three runways. It opened in 1941 and closed in 1945. The airfield was situated to the north east of Atherstone on Stour.
1 Formal gardens around neo-Jacobean house built 1909-15 for Maj. Emmett. Features included canal, yew-hedged enclosure, rose garden, wild garden. Sold 1944, demolished 1959, grounds redeveloped. Lodges survive. Recommended for ...
Formal gardens laid in formal style around an early 20th century house, demolished in 1959; but a lodge survives. The gardens are located at Moreton Paddox.
1 A semi sunken air raid shelter with earth covering. Internally about 28ft (8.5m) long and 6ft 8ins (2m) wide and has an arched roof with 6ft 3ins (1.9m) clearance ...
The site of an air raid shelter which was in use during the Second World War. It is semi-sunken with an earth covering and is situated to the north east of RAF Wellesbourne Mountfield.
Having rented a summer home in Lochs, she called together a group of girls in the Scottish Highlands, and started her first troop of Girl Guides. When she returned to ...
1 The sandstone ashlar bridge was constructed between 1791 and 1839. It was widened sometime between 1840 and 1887. The bridge parapets had been repeatedly repaired in the 20th century. ...
Sandstone ashlar bridge. The earliest part of the bridge dated to the late 18th/Early 19th century. Now demolished due to it being a cause of flooding. It was formerly Grade II Listed.
1 Moreton Hall built 1907-8 by W.H. Romaine Walker for American Charles Garland. Grounds include terraces, formal gardens, avenue, yew-hedged enclosures and grotto. Now Warwickshire College. Recommended for inclusion on ...
Park and grounds surrounding the early 20th century mansion of Moreton Hall. The features of the park include a formal garden, walks, terraces and a grotto.
It was a joy to read Alan Griffin’s article about RAF Gaydon, thanks for writing about it. I have great childhood memories. My dad was stationed there ’63-’66. He worked ...
1 A gas pipeline was scheduled to cut a 24m swathe through a ‘triple ring ditch and henge monument’ at the above grid reference.
2 Excavation proved the features to be ...
The site of a Second World War searchlight battery. It was discovered during the excavation of a pipeline. It was situated 1km north west of Wellesbourne Wood, near Loxley.
1 A three runway bomber airfield opened June 1942 as a satellite to RAF Chipping Warden but soon transferred to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. Major facilities included: two 1400 yard (1.28Km) ...
RAF Gaydon was a Second World War bomber airfield. It opened in 1942 as a satellite airfield to RAF Chipping Warden and later to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. It is located 1.5km north of Chadshunt church.
With Britain’s nuclear capability moving from aircraft to the Polaris submarine in the mid nineteen sixties, the V bomber force became obsolete and Victor and Valiant training at RAF Gaydon ...
RAF Gaydon came into use in June 1942 initially as part of no 12 Operational Training Unit (OTU) operating twin-engined Vickers Wellington bombers crewed mainly by Canadians. Its primary function ...
Although we lived in Wellesbourne, my brother and I started at Ashorne School in the Michaelmas Term 1972. Our mum used to drop us off on the way to work. ...
The University of Warwick marks its 50th anniversary in 2015. The establishment of the University of Warwick was given approval by the government in 1961 and received its Royal Charter ...
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 ...
The former RAF bomber station at Gaydon on the Banbury Road played a pivotal role in Britain’s defence capabilities during the years of the so-called Cold War in the 1950s ...
As part of a volunteer research project for Warwickshire County Record Office, I’ve been looking through back copies of the Rugby Advertiser to look for items, 100 years since women achieved the ...