Leek Wootton History Group was set up at the time of the millennium, when a group of keen residents came together to write a local history book, Leek Wootton and its Hamlets: A History of the Parish of Leek Wootton & Guy's Cliffe (published 2001). Since then it has been involved in a number of projects.
It’s a slightly misleading title, as it wasn’t really a Royal Wedding, but did you know that a relative of Queen Elizabeth II got married in the Parish Church of ...
The Plaza opened on 30th January 1933 to There Goes the Bride starring Jessie Matthews and Owen Nares, work having started on the site in May 1932. Being renamed the ...
Elms in Warwickshire were a common sight before the 1970s. Indeed, the English elm hedgerow trees were termed the Warwickshire Weed. Tall and distinctive trees, the timber was often used ...
Many of us, especially those with children or grandchildren of a certain age, will be familiar with the hit children’s television series Teletubbies. Teletubbies ran for several hundred episodes over ...
Rugby is of course well known for its train station, and part of the reason for the town’s dramatic growth in the Victorian era is its status as an important ...
Photos taken 1976. The castle is the former home to three former Queens of England, the two possibly most famous being Lady Jane Grey and the ‘White Queen’ Elizabeth Woodville, ...
The former Ansley Hall, home of William Garside Phillips (great grandfather to Princess Anne’s first husband Captain Mark Phillips). Photos taken 1975
Southam minted its own coins in mediaeval times because local people found ordinary coins too high in value for everyday use. The old mint house was built in the early ...
Last weekend also saw open days for Astley Castle. Now, Astley has featured on these pages fairly regularly, so yours truly decided to visit. What’s significant when there is how ...
I was born and brought up in St Nicholas Church Street. It was a sociable street with many adult people. There were only seven children as I grew up, all ...
Midland Ancestors (formerly BMSGH) is the principal family history society for those with interests in the pre-1974 counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.