Facilities in our house were fairly basic; water was drawn by hand pump from a well just a few feet beyond the front door.
After looking around the outside of the church, including the excellent “Living Churchyard”, we went inside. The Millennium window is just stunning – it was installed to mark the millennium ...
In 1929, the filling station consisted of a largish detached house, a wooden building, which was the shop and a number of petrol pumps – hand operated of course.
On a lovely sunny day Saturday following a week of horrible grey and drizzly weather, we decided to visit the picturesque village of Offchurch, a few miles from Leamington Spa, ...
William Gold followed his father by also working on the railway and at one stage worked in West Bromwich where he met and married Lily Jane Edith Gee, the daughter ...
Humphry Repton was a distinguished landscape gardener; born in 1752 he died in 1818 and so his life and work are being celebrated nationally in this year of his bicentenary. Where his ...
These two properties, which stand on the corner of New Street, are a single, ornate, timber-framed structure and have sometimes been known as ‘Seven Gables’ due to the number of ...
(Continued from part one)
Prison life
On the night of Tuesday 1st July, Agnes Lake was re-arrested and was once again taken to Warwick Prison. She was forbidden to write to her ...
In October 1913, a ‘militant’ hunger-striking suffragette on release from Warwick Prison under the so-called ‘cat and mouse’ act was taken out from her temporary abode in a Leamington Nursing ...
I left the Fleet Air Arm after 12 years in 1960 and joined AWA in July of that year working as an instrument technician in the instrument test lab under ...
