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
Reading through the news stories for January and February 1915, there are some interesting war-related births and marriages in Leamington Spa.
In the newspaper, published on 15th January 1915 (Warwick and ...
Rewind back to 1975, and we’d left the Parrott House story at a time when the building was under threat of demolition. The owners at the time have failed to ...
2015 marks the centenary of many significant events during the First World War. Among them was a remarkable occasion that took place in Warwickshire and is commemorated by a monument ...
On a recent visit to Charlecote Park I watched people in Victorian costume at work in the kitchen.
Ragging
One was ‘ragging’ – making new items from recycled pieces of material. You may ...
The steam roller is an 8 ton ‘C’ class roller built by Aveling & Porter Ltd of Rochester, Kent and supplied new to the Royal Borough of Leamington Spa in ...
This extraordinary contraption appears to be a portable photographic darkroom belonging to James Green (on the left). At the time he lived at Goodrick Street in Birmingham and later moved ...
