As detailed in part one, news of the Armistice had spread rapidly around Warwickshire on Monday 11th November 1918 and crowds had gathered together to hear and celebrate the news.
Church ...
Monday 11th November 1918 proved to be a typically cold, misty day. Hope had built up over the weekend that a peace treaty between the Allies and Germany was imminent, ...
Commemorations are being held all over Warwickshire to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. St Mary’s Church in Warwick appealed for 11,610 poppies to correspond ...
This document records the visit of Charles Dickens to the Regent Hotel in 1858, as part of a reading tour. There is nothing particularly significant about the entry, Dickens sits ...
William Booth was born on Hall End Farm near Beaudesert, Warwickshire in 1776. Son of a church warden and farmer, he was one of eight children. In around 1799, he ...
Labour shortages caused by men joining the Armed Forces during the First World War led to many companies seeking help from overseas. One such organisation was Rugby-based engineering firm Willans ...
Archives are full of unexpected things. Century old secrets can be read in countless bundles of personal letters, and evidence for all sorts of events pieced together using various accounts ...
Dancing had always been my passion – much to the chagrin of my headmistress, at King’s High, Miss Hare – and although I eventually had a professional dancing career and ...
During the war the pupils had to go over the Ladder Bridge to Shrubland Street for cookery and woodwork.
All railings were removed to be melted down for ammunitions. Some householders ...
