Lady Eva Sarah Louisa Greville1 (1860-1940) was the fourth child and only daughter of George Guy and Anne, 4th Earl and Countess of Warwick. Lady Eva was a life-long friend ...
The madhouse/asylum trade in Henley in Arden owes much to Mary Roadnight (née Meales). The madhouse first licensed by her husband, William Roadnight, in 1774 had been run by Mary ...
I spent about a week In the Antelope Inn when i was about three yrs old in the mid 1940s – I was with my grandparents Mitchell. The inn was ...
Thacker and Christmas was a grocers shop that was at 24 High Street for nearly 100 years. James Thacker and Caleb Christmas took over the store and renamed it ‘Thacker ...
Currall’s was a family business, making and selling saddles, horse harnesses and other items needed for riding or working with horses. In a time before cars, horses were a popular ...
John Eccles owned an oil, lamp and hardware shop in Smith Street, selling all sorts of useful household items. Oil lamps were common in Victorian homes, before gas or electricity ...
The Waring family were in the ropemaking trade. They supplied Warwick Castle for over 130 years. Over those years generations of the family trained young apprentices in the trade.
They made ...
Robert Spennell is remembered for the Spennell’s Directory, written and printed in the late Victorian period. Spennell’s Directory listed trades, businesses and addresses in Warwick, Leamington and Kenilworth. Before the ...
When John Moore and his family moved to Warwick, he was employed as a gardener for Thomas Lloyd. John, his wife Mary, and their eight children lived at Priory Lodge ...
Apart from the cold weather, Bill loved his life in Leamington Spa and the UK. He travelled widely and participated fully in community life. He came to a personal faith ...
In 1945, my father was convalescing as a serving soldier at Shuckburgh Hall and in July, he arranged for my mother and I to stay for a week or two ...
William and Henry Enoch were brothers who both had businesses in Warwick as watchmakers and jewellers in the early Victorian period. William was the younger brother and had a shop ...
