As well as the ongoing rivalries and development of the game on the field throughout the 1860s, there was another important area where progress was being made. This is an ...
As father was the gamekeeper, we lived in the keeper’s cottage on Sherbourne hill. We had plenty of meat to eat, and lived on rabbits, pigeons and chickens. No one ...
In October 1965, the garage opened a showroom on the Parade, the first model on show being the newly launched Wolseley 1100. The showroom had space for six to eight ...
Legacy was a major concern for William Shakespeare. Sonnet 55 argues that his verse will outlast contemporary worldly beauty:
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But ...
A fossil Nautilus shell from the Blue Lias of the Lower Jurassic. Found in South Warwickshire in 2012 at a temporary exposure, now covered up with new housing. Nautilus still ...
We were supplied with gas masks before the war.
1939 – I was swinging on the front garden gate in Wathen Road when my father told me war had just been ...
The 1950s brought about some changes for the burgeoning Regent Garage business in Leamington. More space was needed to accommodate both cars for sale and for repair and maintenance. The ...
In 1940 my family moved to a small half timbered cottage in Church Street (still extant) opposite the memorial hall. There was well water but we still used oil lamps.
I ...
This video link charts the history of the School House and associated Coton Hall. Thomas Coton founded a school for the children of Kingsbury, Warwickshire in 1686. His old school is ...
The Regent Mews were originally built as stabling for the guests of John William’s Bedford Hotel – purposefully built opposite, rather than next to, the hotel. The mews provided stabling ...
