This document is one of a number of medical recipes preserved in the collection relating to the Willes family of Newbold Comyn. This bundle consists of documents written in various ...
Continuing Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
Land army girls worked on the farms alongside the prisoners and farm hands. They were billeted in a large detached house, opposite the village ...
Continuing Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1
‘My move to Princethorpe village school was arranged by Mrs Reeve of the Poplars Farm, Eathorpe. She was an exceptional lady who was very ...
This photograph was found in a Building Byelaw application file from 1937, for the erection of a house, milk shop and dairy: the photograph of the site was taken by ...
While on a trip to photograph the windmill at Napton on the Hill, I came across a commemorative plaque at the side of the lane about 150 metres from the ...
Archdeacon Colley, rector of Stockton, created a fascinating feature in his garden called a speak pipe that connected his summerhouse to children down below. He offered a reward to children for ...
Continuing Julie Barnett’s recollections of her wartime childhood, from Warwickshire County Record Office ref. CR 3913/1.
The large Convent
‘The Benedictine Priory, which was situated on a hill outside the village, was ...
Continuing Julie Barnett’s account of her childhood from Warwickshire County Record Office ref. CR 3913/1.
‘My next school was at Princethorpe, about two miles from Eathorpe. In my childhood, Princethorpe was ...
A Mr. Cole wrote down his reminiscences of his childhood in Kenilworth and Warwickshire, around the time of the First World War. His recollections of the war offer an insight ...
The current handsome Georgian building in Jury Street stands on a site that had been successively St Peter’s Chapel, the Cross Tavern and an earlier Court House. The surviving Court ...
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300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, what is now Warwickshire lay just north of the Equator. The climate was hot and rather arid, as evidenced by the reddened, ...