The bakery closed on August 1st 2008 after trading for 110 years, and had been run by four generations of the Pails family. It was established in 1898 when Alfred Hugh ...
Travel to Baddesley Ensor and Baxterley nowadays, and the area is the epitome of rural Warwickshire. Its mining heritage is not forgotten, however, even though the mine closed in 1989. ...
More extracts from Julie Barnett’s account of her childhood1.
Many well-known people used to visit Eathorpe. Anthony Eden, the foreign minister in Churchill’s war-time Government, and his wife, were regular though ...
Wooden post mill probably built at the beginning of the 19th century. It had an open trestle, four common sails, metal sheeted breast and roof, ladder and tailpole,
Ceased working by ...
In the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust there is a database listing the names of children in the town who were apprenticed to trades in order to keep them ...
Rugby is celebrating the advent of the Rugby World Cup this autumn in many ways. A striking statue of William Webb Ellis stands in front of Rugby School. The plaque beneath it ...
This month, the snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for March 1915, are focused on billeting and soldiers entertainment. The newspapers mentioned the billeting of ...
More extracts from Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
‘During the war…the ‘black market’ and the racketeers who ran it, in big towns and cities, were known as spivs. Eathorpe was ...
Our heritage journey spans Roman times, Rugby’s rich industrial heritage, and the birth of the famous game.
Archdeacon Colley was rector of Stockton from 1901-1912 and a splendid eccentric who produced the unique children’s Speak Pipe. Locals mention that Rectory Close used to be called ‘The Radical’ after ...
In 1928 a tragedy occurred in Rugby when a balloon being piloted by Percival Spencer crash landed on No. 4 Hillmorton Road. This was a Rugby School boarding house run by the Rev. J.M. ...
St Peter and St John’s Church in Clifton Road Rugby may be relatively modern, but it has an intriguing history. As part of a Church open day on Sat August ...
