In part one, I discussed the background to the Suevic running aground off the Lizard and the account of a passenger, Warwickshire woman Mrs. Ireland.
When the ship first hit the ...
With Warwickshire having two locations that claim to be the centre of England, the old cross at Meriden and the former Midland Oak at Lillington, it is probably pretty safe ...
For the first time in 4,000 years, a very rare burial urn – first excavated by archaeologists from Warwickshire County Council – is going on display in Kenilworth’s Abbey ‘Barn’ ...
When excavations for the Orbit Homes development in Southam started in 2013, strange foundations were discovered under the former Victor Hodges Home site. Orbit brought in a team of archaeologists ...
A website dedicated to the history and aftermath of the Baddesley / Baxterley Pit explosion of May 1882. The story behind the explosion, the rescue attempts and the relief fund set up after the explosion.
The Chinese New Year has just started: the year of the sheep. That’s an excuse to show off some of our Warwickshire lambs along with blackthorn flowering. Blackthorn is usually ...
These almshouses were founded in the 16th century (along with the famous Rugby Public School) by Lawrence Sheriff who was born in Rugby and rose to become grocer to Queen ...
The post mill was built on Windmill Hill in the late 1780s. It consisted of a main post, four sails and a pitched roof. It had a wide ladder from ...
This Ladies complete pocket-book was found in the last of a row of houses beyond the factory, on the road from Wixford to Bidford.
Although the book is dated as 1777, ...
‘The neat little village of Church Lawford, with its equally pleasant tributary, Kings Newnham, are most favoured localities, and the inhabitants of those rural places ought to be, and no ...
On the 5th September 1694,
..a sudden fire, which broake out about two of the clock in the afternoon on the fifth of this instant September, in the western part of ...
Warwickshire has been a sea-bed in its time, with aeons-old, marine fossils found in geological exposures from north of Nuneaton to Burton Dassett. Today the county hosts a variety of ...