Brandon Working Men’s Club was built in 1885 by the trustees of the late James Beech (a railway magnate). It was originally contained reading and refreshment rooms plus a club ...
Just north of Packwood House, the church of St Giles nestles snugly among a patchwork of fields. Entering on a cold winter’s day, it takes a while for your eyes ...
When attending the Rootes Archive Trust’s Heritage Day held at Gaydon, circumstances introduced me to Martin Woolston – the last time we had met was 60 years ago! We sat ...
Interestingly, the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry also has a small collection of Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society specimens, transferred to them long ago.
In late spring, the Unlocking Collections team recruited a small group of researcher and tour guide volunteers to join the project. The team was looking for those who had an ...
The Spicer family were successful and well-known Warwickshire taxidermists during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Warwickshire Museum collection includes many examples of their taxidermy, especially the work of ...
During the late summer of 2024, the Unlocking Collections project recruited a group of co-curation volunteers to develop a small exhibition at Market Hall Museum.
I was born in 1941 and after taking my A Levels in 1959 I joined British Thomson-Houston (BTH) Rugby as an indentured apprentice on a five year contract. My father ...
Don’t you love clickbait, but there’s more than a grain of truth here. Predatory fish such as roach and pike do lurk in the Warwickshire Grand Union, but the area ...
Shells can reveal many stories. Here is a conch shell measuring about 18cm long, the natural shelter of a sea-snail that lived in a tropical lagoon or on a coral ...
Meeting one of the trustees from the Rootes Archive Centre Trust (RACT), I learned that he and his wife had owned a flat in Ladbroke Hall, near Southam and that ...
