Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 14th April 1865. A tumultuous event in world affairs, this act also reached Warwick, and excited much talk and reflection amongst the councillors, media, and ...
Early allotments
The ribbon manufacturers Charles Bray and James Cash set up the ‘Coventry Labourers’ and Artisans’ Co-operative Society’ in 1843. They provided 400 small allotments on four sites around the ...
On Tuesday 4th August 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany after the German Government rejected the request by the British Government to assure that the neutrality of Belgium would ...
The Kenilworth Windmill was a brick tower mill with batter, built about 1778 with four common sails, boat cap, two pairs of stones and five storeys high. Around 1854 the ...
In trying to prepare an entry for the database of the Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society on Clifford Mill, I came across a few elements that needed clarification. I wonder if ...
While looking through some documents at the County Record Office recently I came across a somewhat faded photograph of a rather gnarled ancient oak tree. The handwritten caption beneath it ...
The invasion of Belgium ruined the life-hopes of many ordinary Belgian folk. One couple was Victor Buelens and Emelie Alice deKeyser from Louvain who had planned their marriage for 22nd ...
The Octopus Stinkhorn, or Devils Fingers (Clathrus archeri) is a non-native fungus originating from Australia and Tasmania and is occasionally found in Britain and Continental Europe. It is not poisonous ...
On Sunday, 15th March 2015, the centenary commemoration of King George V’s review of the 29th Division took place. The commemoration took place in the middle of the A45, around the monument ...
When Atherstone Civic Society announced that it was going to Save the Pound, local people thought that it had joined the Eurosceptics. It was understandable because no-one had seen Bentley ...
Your intrepid reporter ventured out into her back garden, the forecast was good, the sky proved clear, and she was all prepared with eclipse glasses, a colander and a clock. Yes a ...
Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Kenilworth was the home of three tanneries.
Warwick Road
The Warwick Road Tannery was on the current site of Talisman Square. In the late ...
