Prisoner of War Letter dated 1942 from Mr R Cross to his family in Nuneaton. This has been donated to Nuneaton Memories for safe keeping. Hope all can read this
Frank Whittle was born in Earlsdon, Coventry, in 1907. His family moved to Leamington Spa where he attended Milverton School and then Leamington College for Boys. He worked in his ...
In the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers, there are lots of snippets of information about life at home and details of local soldiers experiences out on the ...
This windmill is a red brick, six storey tarred tower with a marked batter and conical roof, and was built in 1794. About 65 feet tall, it had two pairs ...
Royal visits don’t just happen … this much is revealed in the Willans Works engineering archives held here at Warwickshire County Record Office. Within the collection, a variety of records ...
We used to go past these on the way to school, known somewhat unflatteringly as ‘tin town’ by those on the bus. As you can see, since those days the ...
The bombing of Coventry in November 1940 was one of the more destructive raids of the Second World War. A week later, about twenty children from my junior school in ...
The Post Mill, which stood on Mill Hill, was built in about 1789. It had a tarred, open trestle, four common sails, ladder, tailpole and two pairs of stones (this ...
Two windmills in Stockton
Stockton was unusual for a small community in that it had two windmills side by side during the 19th century.
Post windmill
Built in 1810, it had a brick and ...
So you are driving or walking near Draycote Water when you catch a glimpse of a strange looking creature. What have you been eating or drinking?! No – you are quite ...
Pulling sharply off the A45, you go down the pathway to the farm. Bouncing over the ridge and furrow to where I am directed to park along with the others, ...
Previously, we had seen the struggle for survival of the ‘Parrott House’ in Stretton on Dunsmore. Threatened with demolition, a solution had been found where the house was bought by ...
