The Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery came to occupy Gamecock Barracks near the village of Bramcote, Nuneaton in April 1959 and were disbanded in 1993. The regiment was the army training establishment for ...
I started at St Nicholas school in 1937 at the age of 5. The first class we were in, the teacher wore a long black dress. The cloakroom had beds ...
Kenilworth Ford in Castle Road floods regularly and these two photographs show that things have not changed much in nearly 100 years in spite of regular flood alleviation measures. The ...
We take it for granted that our roads today are relatively wide and straight, well-engineered and surfaced, with good and consistent signage and often attractive roadside planting. It was not ...
Nuneaton Town Supporters' Co-operative successfully secured a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant to present a history of senior football in the town. Entitled ‘From Town to Town’ the project aims to chart the history of the football club from its formation in 1889 to the present day.
Nuneaton has had some large scale flooding over the years, 1900 and 1932 being just two of the biggest but the town also flooded in 1958.
Here is another pictorial village sign: Cubbington. The picture is of the village church and my photo shows that it is an accurate representation (with only a little bit of ...
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At a 4:15am Sergeant Walton met four boys in Fleet Street armed with sticks and with commendable pluck he went up to them and on accosting them ...
My Dad worked there – he started off with a horse and cart with the milk when he was 17 and he later worked on the Co-op Mutuality Club (a ...
Great Grandfather bought the land from the Newdigate family in the 19th century for houses and turned them into shops. At one time it was a boot repairers, later a dairy and ...
Bramcote Barracks started life as an RAF base. I was there 1977-1978, straight from school. All of my family worked at Fieldings and Johnsons factory in Attleborough. One day I ...
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust owns many fascinating and important treasures relating to arguably Britain’s greatest playwright. However, often overlooked in its collection is a rare and fine portrait by William ...
