My paternal grandfather Mr Tom Pratt was a member of the Pratt family who were farmers in the area of Lighthorne and Chesterton since the 1700s. His uncle John Pratt ...
National Children’s Day is celebrated in May, and an appropriate topic with a Warwickshire link is this letter, which was sent by Mr. J. H. Long to the minister of ...
We’d got our tickets, we got the train down to Wembley. We arrived at the station and were pleasantly surprised by how relatively calm it was. What we hadn’t realised ...
We’d gone to games during the cup run, but we still needed tickets for the cup final; this was planned like a military operation. We had enough stubs for the ...
Every year when May comes around, I always get a little shiver of excited nostalgia. This year marks the 32nd year since Coventry City won the FA Cup in what ...
I’ve lived in Rugby nearly all my life. I grew up initially on the outskirts of Rugby in Dunchurch, and my grandparents were just down the road. My father was ...
Mary Elizabeth Throckmorton was born in 1832, the daughter of Sir Robert George Throckmorton and Elizabeth Acton. She held the office of Lady-in-Waiting to Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and travelled ...
April 26th: 1772 at a vestry then held twas agreed To Inoculate all the poor Inhabitants being Parishioners that are willing to be done by a subscription for that purpose ...
For the first 40 years of my life I was resolutely based in the North of England, and I am still proud of my Northern links, but I didn’t imagine ...
