In 1940 my family moved to a small half timbered cottage in Church Street (still extant) opposite the memorial hall. There was well water but we still used oil lamps.
I ...
This video link charts the history of the School House and associated Coton Hall. Thomas Coton founded a school for the children of Kingsbury, Warwickshire in 1686. His old school is ...
The Regent Mews were originally built as stabling for the guests of John William’s Bedford Hotel – purposefully built opposite, rather than next to, the hotel. The mews provided stabling ...
Sir Alfred Herbert acquired Town Thorns Manor at Easenhall in the late 1930s as place to which Coventry children could be evacuated in time of war, and gave it to ...
Sir Alfred Herbert loved the city of Coventry, and in particular the many who worked with him and for him building up his highly respected machine tools business which was ...
This handwritten book of notes on flowers and gardens was compiled by Anne Greville (1829-1903), née Charteris, 4th Countess of Warwick. It records, with a phenomenal attention to detail, the ...
