We are a small group based on the town of Rugby, Warwickshire. Our aim is to encourage and aid the study of Family History, which extends to conducting research relating to Rugby and surrounding areas for members resident outside the district.
A small group of people interested in the history of Rugby. The group grew out of a class at the Percival Guildhouse in Rugby, where it still meets. The group has produced several publications including the Aspects of Rugby booklets - all eight of the series are still in print.
In July 2012, the Landmark Trust opened the newly-restored Astley Castle near Nuneaton, Warwickshire to the public. The castle, which dates back to the 1200s, was damaged by fire in ...
The hills at the southern tip of Warwickshire, above Long Compton, are capped by beds of limestone of Middle Jurassic age, roughly 170 million years old. These formed as layers ...
The old Town Hall stood on the High Street. It was built in 1857, with an extension in 1919. The upper floor became a cinema (Vint’s Palace) around 1913. A ...
Bulkington Village Centre was originally Bulkington First School, and opened on 25th September 1939 (delayed two weeks because of the outbreak of WW2).
Due to the need to reduce school places ...
If ever pictures show how roads have changed in the past century, this is it! The ancient Roman road is little more than a dirt track in the earlier picture, ...
Rugby’s second station at the bottom of Railway Terrace. Cabs await fares for rides to The George Hotel and to The Three Horseshoes Hotel.
Amongst its historical collections, the Market Hall Museum in Warwick cares for and displays the skeleton of an extinct male Giant Irish Deer (or ‘Irish Elk’), dug from an Irish ...
Cross the Fosse Way by Halford now, and you pass by the old 16th century Halford Bridge Inn on the right before crossing the River Stour. Although a pretty road ...
Say you went to school in Rugby, and if you are outside of Warwickshire there is a fair chance you will have to clarify this does not have to mean ...
Much of southern and eastern Warwickshire is underlain by layers of grey clay and limestone dating back 200 million years to the dawn of the Jurassic Period. This material is ...
