Archives don’t just record weddings, births, and celebrations. They record the whole spectrum of human experience; pain, fear, uncertainty, loss. But there are some areas of human experience which are ...
The first part of this article focused on the story of Annie Yates and her abuse at the hands of her husband Thomas. This kind of story arises time and ...
J C Smiths – or “Smiths On The Bridge” to many Nuneatonians, was located in the town centre (it is now Debenhams). It changed name around 1976.
Entrances were Newdegate Street, ...
Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Saunders is remembered with affection, as the first nurse in the Northern Ontario town of Cobalt. She was also the first person to open a hospital in ...
I have very hazy memories of the camp. I was born there in the early 1950s, and my parents must have moved in only a little while earlier. Mum always ...
A website for those who are interested in canal and river boatmen. Uses newspaper articles to detail the lives and work of canal boatmen, and aims to help those trying to trace their canal ancestors.
My great grandfather George Thomas Woods bought the orchard in around 1908 and ran it along with his sons John and Arthur until after his death in 1949 when it ...
After realising that I needed help from the apprentice welfare office, I was worried. I had in my mind that by failing to be self-supporting my whole future again threatened ...
A carrier bag full of photos was recently donated to Nuneaton Memories. Amongst them was these three postcards, all unused so cannot tell date. They are not in the best ...
These images show the large machines that were used underground (most are still underground following a fire and the pit closure) to extract the coal. All images were taken by ...
These images taken by Brian who donated them show the removal of the water wheel at Bourne Brook, Arley. it is believed it is this wheel that gave rise to ...
