In the initial article, I gave an overview of Adkins’s career as an interpreter and diplomat with the Chinese Consular Service. However, against the dramatic political backdrop of events at ...
In 1855 19-year-old Adkins, a native of Milcote, near Weston-on-Avon, was appointed a supernumerary interpreter at the Superintendency of British Trade with China. He was to remain with the Chinese Consular Service ...
Warwickshire Museum holds a seed from the coco de mer palm tree and it is definitely worth a look as it is possibly one of the original specimens making up the ...
The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of 1855 saw charges of passing on counterfeit coins against Richard Broome and Robert Kent. The depositions from the archives reveal what appears to be a ...
The sound of church bells forms part of our collective memory, as children, from weddings, national celebrations or even funerals. However, few have knowledge of what goes on in the ...
I came to live in Harbury in 1933 and in April 1939 married my late husband, Raymond Ceney and lived with his widowed mother Mrs Sarah Ceney in the cottage ...
Warwickshire Museum recently acquired this small but stunning object, which was found near Middleton in North Warwickshire by a metal detectorist. It has been dated to the 15th century and ...
Timber framed buildings are subject to many alterations over the centuries and Oken’s House is no exception. Nevertheless, there were fascinating survivals from the past uncovered by this survey.
The findings
A ...
Lincoln House School was on the corner of Caldecott Street, it comes into Hillmorton Road. Tebbs now own it, they built a nursery there years ago and took over the ...
The article on George Redding allowed me to share this photo of my mother (nee Ingram). My Mother was born in Rugby in King Street off Newbold Road, opposite the ...
Leamington Spa Courier – February 13th 1959
Harbury is mourning the loss of Mrs. Eleanor Overton, a noted village character, whose funeral was reported in our last issue. “Old Mother Overton,” ...
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Thomas Berry, a haulier, residing at Harbury, said that about 10 minutes to 11 on Thursday night, as he was going to bed, Mrs Verney came into ...
