The first Women’s Institute in Warwickshire was formed in April 1917, now known as Tysoe WI, the original title was “Compton Wynyates in association with Tysoe”, as the Marchioness of ...
I’ve always lived in Warwick and was born in Warwick; my husband grew up in Warwick too so we’ve got a lot of memories about Warwick.
The greengrocer
My father-in-law used to ...
The Black Path was so called because it was originally surfaced with cinders. It was a footbridge built in the early 20th century across the railway to help workers living ...
Today (2015) most of the original British Thomson-Houston (BTH) factory buildings have been demolished but a few remnants have been incorporated into GE (interestingly a descendant of GEC who used to ...
This memorial commemorates former workers at the British Thomson-Houston factory who gave their lives during the two world wars. The inscription reads: ‘In Memory of the Men of the British ...
A previous article has described the former Warwick Prison on Cape Road, with a photograph of the Governor’s House that still survives. A little further down Cape Road, on the left just ...
I was five years old when I came to Warwick. My first memories are of going to my first school, All Saints School it was then. They used to have ...
The British Thomson-Houston (BTH) Company was founded in 1894 and production started at Rugby in 1900. The main factory buildings (on what used to be Glebe Farm) opened beside the railway ...
This glasshouse was an attractive and useful feature of Riversley Park that has now gone.
Was it demolished or did it blow down in a gale?
For a small village, Church Lawford certainly had its fair share of clock makers, of which Daniel Dalton was one. There is an intriguing record that may explain how the ...
The Willans Works archives project at the Warwickshire County Record Office is coming to an end later this month, but work on the records of the engineering site at Rugby ...
As Nuneaton Carnival celebrates its 85th birthday this year, here is a look back at 1966