Reginald Foort holds a key place in the role of cinema organist, having been a pioneer of organ broadcasting and recording. He began by accompanying silent movies in 1926, and ...
Judith Dugdale was the granddaughter of Sir William Dugdale, the famed antiquarian. Her letter to her daughter Isabella, in 1727, is a bit of a rant about the failings of ...
Home thoughts from abroad?
Well from the Isle of Wight actually and unlike the poem by Robert Browning, it was September rather than April, but apart from that……..
Anyway, it was in ...
Warwickshire as a county is known for embracing the arts, and Shakespeare undoubtedly looms large over the county. He is, of course, not the only cultural icon associated with the ...
A school for the poor of Whitnash
Built in 1861, it was partially endowed by Henry Eyres Landor Esquire.
The free school was built for the poor Inhabitants of Whitnash, and the ...
This almshouse was founded by Miss Marianne Phillips in the 1860s as a hostel for 12 poor, unmarried women. She left a £2,000 endowment for the almshouse. It was built ...
The early museum
A museum has existed at Market Hall since 1836, when the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society hired some rooms in the centre of Warwick. Expanding rapidly, by ...
Henry James Stretton-Ward was born in Coventry in 1895. He was the son of James Ward (a lodging house keeper) and Florence Rose Squirrell (the eldest daughter of the Rev. ...
Fulke Greville (1554-1628) is one of the most notable Warwickshire figures from the age of Shakespeare. A prolific writer of love sonnets, he also experimented with new literary genres, including ...
OK message received, a five kiloton bomb has exploded over Warwickshire and it’s an airburst.
An airburst will destroy all property in a five mile radius.
Place a symbol on the operations ...
I was asked to research butler William Parsons for a mini project organized by the Family and Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS). I was told that 40 year old William ...
The audience cheers and applauds virtually every turn, whistles break out among the crowd as they show their support. Meanwhile, on another night, a firecracker is thrown as the anger ...
