A member society of The Arts Society, we have lectures on all aspects of the arts at the Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa, and also organise visits and short breaks to places of cultural interest.
In north Warwickshire, the jewel must surely be the River Anker. The Anker is a sparkling majestic delight which rises near the ancient village of Wolvey on the Leicestershire border ...
Riding tricycles and looking up at the sky
Opposite the side door on the left was a long blue tiled/slabbed passageway that was great for riding tricycles up and down! The ...
Nicholas Chamberlain, rector of Bedworth, founded this almshouse in 1715. He declared in his will: ‘I, having no child, do dispose of my estate to the charitable uses following’. His ...
I have already looked at some shops in part one. In part two, I shall recall some more memories.
On the Kineton Road, near to the King’s Head pub, West’s Bakery, ...
The porch of the farm house had two shallow alcoves on either side with the front door ahead having a half glazed stained glass window. The hall, with its cardinal ...
Not that I remember it, but we moved to Wellesbourne when I was two and a half years old in 1967. It was on a new estate, called the Willowdene ...
Francis Galton was born in Birmingham in 1822, son of Samuel Galton and Frances Darwin, and therefore a cousin of Charles Darwin. The Galton family had made their fortune in ...
To me Warwickshire has always felt like border country, the end of the southern half of Britain. This is marked by the old Roman highways of Watling Street from London ...
Adjoining the main building at Manor Farm was a large barn with double full height doors on both sides in which hay and later bales of straw were kept. Inside, ...
One of our contributors, Christine Hodgetts, was moved to write this interesting article about the Autumn Crocus, in response to Mark Smith’s original article, A Splash of Autumn Colour.
The autumn ...
My brothers, Michael and Tony and I have incredibly happy memories of staying in Rupert Cottage with our parents in the 1950s and 1960s when visiting their friends Dick and ...
