Some photos that we received at our recent roadshow held in Nuneaton Market – these show a former big employer in Nuneaton “Biddles”, which stood in Newtown Road. Asda supermarket ...
This Society, founded in 1954, is open to anyone with an interest in the natural environment. The Society holds indoor meetings on alternate Thursdays from September to March with a variety of speakers, together with field meetings during the summer.
I’ve always been interested in why streets have certain names, yet my interest hasn’t been the etymological background to names, nor even the history of streets that have existed in ...
Leamington’s most colourful and probably its oldest piece of public sculpture isn’t easy to spot, and most visitors and many residents are unaware of its existence. The brightly painted stone ...
This film was part of the ‘Animation Alive at the Museum’ project involving young people from Warwick, and was organised and supported by the Learning and Community Engagement team and Warwickshire ...
This film was part of the ‘Animation Alive at the Museum’ project involving young people from Warwick, and was organised and supported by the Learning and Community Engagement team and Warwickshire ...
By a quirk of administrative boundary changes, Warwickshire’s home at Edgbaston is not in the current county. Delve back to its early years however, and some of the key places ...
History of the pub
The Wills and Clark families were owners and later tenants of the Cape of Good Hope for a number of years. The “Cape” forms part of property ...
Opening
Come the mid 19th century there were repeated complaints by visiting justices, who remarked that the Warwick gaol on Barrack Street, and the Bridewell were unfit for purpose, suffering from ...
The fourth and final selection from the diary, continuing from part three.
The intensity of the work in this section sees Clark having nothing to eat and drink all day on ...
The third section of the diary, continuing on from part two. This section covers Clark’s birthday, although there is less of a desire to maintain ‘normality’ here than in the ...
Continuing on from part one on this website, the second selection of pages from a World War One diary. Here, despite the fighting going on around him, the soldier clings ...