I’ve lived in Wolston for 82 years, and in the same house since 1936. I can remember the 1937 coronation, they had like a big fair or celebration in the ...
Like many other counties during World War Two, Warwickshire rallied around its wounded soldiers, holding large parties and shows in an effort to keep their spirits up.1 Entertainment at these events could ...
The first chapel
The first Methodist chapel in Bedworth (Weslyan Chapel) was in a rented cottage in Kinders Yard off Leicester Street, soon to be followed by the use of a ...
The war left a high level of tension in Stratford, with a lot of people suffering with nerves and anxiety affecting many families in town. To add to this there ...
Close to Hungerfield bridge, this canal bridge is not of the same quality. Decrepit, poorly maintained, and shoddily built in the first place… but it still stands. I wonder if ...
The old brickyard plantation1 is a triangular piece of woodland in the northwest of the grid square SP 290750, with one face bordering Gibbet Hill Road. Close examination shows some interesting ...
RSM E.J Pratt (my Great Uncle) was born in Stoneleigh in 1875, his parents were Thomas Edwin Pratt and Ann Lee. Edward joined the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment in ...
Between 1938 and 1945 the women of Warwickshire took on volunteering roles in their local communities to support the war effort (yes even in 1938 they knew war with Germany ...
The Domesday Book of 1086 indicates that there were pre-Norman settlements at Stretton Baskerville, Burton Hastings, Copston, Withybrook, and Wolvey. This record tells us that the land in Wolvey (Ulveia) ...
