Ashow is a village hidden away down a cul-de-sac near Stoneleigh Abbey. The charming timber-framed cottages have been altered since 1900, which caused me some problems in identifying them. Many ...
Henry Hewitt owned Clifton Mill from 1848 to 1869. During that time he may have poisoned his wife, himself and a large number of the local villagers. This was done ...
Not quite, but it was a late ’50s trip to the Golden Lion… bus stop.
When I was around ten years old we went on a Sunday school trip to Easenhall ...
(Continued from part one)
The second Earl was not only a collector of art, but seemed to enjoy participating in the creation of it too. It has been noted that both ...
By the year 1816 the walls of Warwick Castle held one of England’s most ambitious collections of Old Master Portraiture ever assembled. Despite the sale of the Castle in 1978 ...
(Continued from part one)
So it was, on Tuesday 11th June 1861 the train which had passed over the bridge less than an hour earlier fully laden, left Leamington Spa station ...
With today’s interpretation of the Health & Safety laws it is easy to forget the rather laxed attitude towards H&S that prevailed in times past. Unfortunately, this was an attitude ...
It was on 22nd March 1916 at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt. Edith had converted to Catholicism in order to ...
One of the best-known features of the little church of St Milburga in the scattered hamlet of Wixford near Alcester, is the enormous yew tree outside the south porch. In ...
(Continued from part one)
The disagreement between Rhoades and Moultrie came out of the blue on Christmas morning 1872 when the rector wrote a peremptory note to his curate:
Dear Rhoades, I ...
John Moultrie is probably Rugby’s most gifted and prolific 19th century poet, though now rarely read and to most not even a vaguely remembered name. He was an upholder of ...
Ben Earl’s contribution on this website about Lawrence Sheriff School (LSS) in Rugby brought back memories of my time there during 1941-1946. At the end of his article Ben mentions ...
