Some photos of Astley Castle from before and during its rebuilding by the Landmark Trust. A brief history of the castle can be found here.
Until the Anker Flood Relief was built, Nuneaton flooded quite often – here are three photos of the floods from the 1950s and one showing the only flood marker we ...
A place to remember wonderful memories of being from or living in Nuneaton. Nuneaton Memories is all about Nuneaton, so memories and photos of Nuneaton, Stockingford, Hartshill, Ansley Village, Weddington, Whitestone, Hill Top, Caldwell, Camphill (CV10 and CV11 postcodes) etc .
Nuneaton Memories were given an album full of photographs all believed to have been taken by prolific Nuneaton amateur photographer Reginald Bull. The family of Bert Healey donated the album ...
Photo shows Mr William Worrall in the employ of Garside Phillips; we think the photo dates around 1920 but are not sure. Garside Phillips owned the former Ansley Hall and ...
There’s a new exhibit in the Market Hall Museum in Warwick – a Victorian toy hansom cab that came from my great-grandfather. He built up a construction business in the ...
Francis Willughby was born at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, and is known for his Ornithologia libri tres in 1676 (the English edition, The Ornithology of Francis Willoughby. In three books wherein all the Birds ...
Look closely in your flower beds, local park or on your allotment and you’ll almost certainly find rounded pebbles of a smooth, fine-grained rock-type known as quartzite. They are actually ...
A very ancient ceremony takes place each year on November 11th just before dawn at Knightlow Cross in Ryton on Dunsmore (see photo). The collection of Wroth Silver dates back ...
The Dun Cow was a coaching inn on the London to Holyhead Road, now the A45. It was first recorded in 1731 at Knightlow Hill (near the Knightlow Cross where ...
I remember as child travelling from Banbury to Jephson Gardens in about 1950 to see the famous illuminations. Each year’s illumination had a different theme, the theme for my visit ...