Do you have memories of Southam to tell or remember these buildings? Please comment below.
You may like to see the linked article on the Avon Mill in Rugby that gives the dates when it operated.
The historical background and development of gardens has always interested me. When I first started my research work, I regret to say that I had never even been into my ...
There are all sorts of fascinating documents in the Warwickshire County Record Office which can provide an unusual and unexpected insight into society at a period in time. The ‘Atherstone ...
As Valentine’s Day approaches, it is interesting to look back to the golden days of postcard production in Edwardian times, before the Great War brought down a curtain on the ...
Bibliophiles would be proud to proclaim that the book has always been a carrier of change, insight and innovation. Books are a powerful medium for the transmission of ideas. Books change ...
In January 1747 the Reverend Cotterell, vicar of Polesworth, died at Polesworth, aged 77. Some kindly person decided that ‘it would be injustice to the memory of so valuable a person’ ...
Sir Francis Nethersole initially had relatively little connection with Warwickshire. However, by 1620 he had married Lucy, the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Goodyer of Polesworth. (As an aside, Goodyer ...
I could find no sign of a mill here in the Domesday book. Trade directories show John Brierley as an active water miller here in 1924 but milling had ceased ...
I went to the school between 2003 and 2010. Many of the memories one has of Rugby High School are framed by the annual traditions that took place there (and hopefully still ...