The Blacksmith’s Arms retains its character, with a rather quirky roof. What is interesting to me in these pictures is how remarkably similar the view is, with the buildings pretty ...
A local schoolmaster Mr Hassall mentions this station in his school logbook:
Jan. 15th 1892. The new books for the library to the worth of £4. 10. 0 arrived at Brandon ...
The Old Bull and Butcher was a public house in Ryton on Dunsmore on the A423 Banbury Road.
The pub first appears in the Victuallers’ Recognizances in 1819, with Joseph Olorenshaw ...
We occasionally experience falls of so-called Saharan dust in Warwickshire, when precipitation is combined with wind blowing from the south. This produces ‘dirty rain’ depositing splatters of dust which are ...
What is a house in Virginia doing on a site about Warwickshire? At first, this may appear to be a strange choice for an article on this website, at least ...
Elephant Wash
The wonderful picture of elephants outside Woolworths in Nuneaton (on the home page of ‘Our Warwickshire’) reminds me of the connection between Leamington and elephants. Did you know that ...
A bit of history
Field names provide an unofficial record of rural history. In medieval times villages had two or three great fields with a crop-rotation system. These great fields were ...
I previously gave an introduction to field names and their history. The names of fields originated in a very practical way to identify them for illiterate farm labourers who had ...
We used to go down the Fosse Way to visit my Aunt, in Swindon. It wasn’t the same as now, it was a very quiet road and hardly anybody used ...
Think of King Arthur and certain images come to mind; jousting, the Lady of the Lake, the Launcelot, Guinevere, Arthur love triangle to name but three,. Think of places, and ...
This pioneering reformatory was established by Warwickshire magistrates in 1818 in a rented 18th-century farm at Stretton on Dunsmore. It was run by a married couple and housed up to ...
The station was opened in 1879, replacing an earlier station from 1838. Despite being the only station between Coventry and Rugby, Brandon and Wolston struggled for customers and was closed ...
