The Donald Healey Motor Company archive at Warwickshire County Record Office doesn’t just include material on cars. There are also items relating to other interests the Healey company and family ...
In 1908, men quarrying for ironstone at Mount Pleasant, Burton Dassett, made a remarkable discovery. A few feet beneath the surface they found over 35 skeletons, buried in trenches on ...
A selection of photographs of the town decorated to celebrate the Queen’s Coronation in 1953.
Parts of central and eastern Warwickshire are well-known amongst geologists and the quarry industry for patches of ancient sand and gravel, the half million year-old deposits of a long-lost river, ...
This recipe – probably dating to sometime in the 1920s – comes from a Warwickshire County Record Office document (reference CR4694/63) which is a notebook of recipes, homemade medicines, and knitting ...
The Market Hall Museum displays include a large slab of ironstone, collected a good few years ago from the now disused Edge Hill quarries in the south of the county. ...
The Jurassic rocks of southern and eastern Warwickshire have yielded many fossils over the last two hundred years, including the skeletons of ichthyosaurs – dolphin-like ‘fish-lizards’ made famous by Mary ...
National organisation the Milestone Society recently secured funding to restore and renovate six historic mileposts on the Stratford upon Avon to Long Compton Turnpike.
In Anglo-Saxon times (broadly 410 AD to 1066 AD), what we know as ‘Warwickshire’ was gradually taking shape. Over a thousand years ago, our county would have looked very different. ...
