St. Nicholas is a church with a varied history. The tower, which is the oldest part of the building, was built in two stages. The lower part dates from the ...
By the 1960s Finn Shoes were producing some 10,000 pairs of these shoes a week from its factory in Nuneaton. According to accounts provided by the British Board of Trade, ...
I hadn’t associated Warwickshire with menageries, but a blog by Parks & Gardens UK drew my attention to two at Coombe Abbey.
Princess Elizabeth, 1603-1608
The Abbey was purchased by John Harington ...
If you mention the park or, more correctly, Victoria Park to Leamingtonians of a certain vintage, they will talk about playing on the old steam roller, crawling through the old ...
Henry Wise was about 37 when he inherited Warwick Priory in 1810. Five years before this he had become the Vicar of St. Gregory’s Church, and continued there until his ...
The letter below paints a vivid picture of the traumas of the long voyage out to New Zealand and the hardship and exploitation suffered by the emigrants when they arrived. ...
St Andrew’s Church in Rugby was originally constructed in the 13th century (on the site of an older building) but was considerably altered during the 19th century. A photograph of ...
Knowle at the outbreak of the First World War was a typical small village in Warwickshire with good road communications, where agriculture and allied trades provided work for a large ...
The project to catalogue the records of the Rugby engineering firm Willans and Robinson has uncovered many topical references to the First World War.
Following the German invasion of Belgium on ...
The accusations
George Taylor’s violations included books being kept by a pauper for the previous two years, and of these, many had been in arrears for several weeks, while the charge ...
Ivo Eagle was the stage name of a man who spent most of his life as a travelling performer, and was also a photographer in the 1920s. When he retired, ...
The church dates back to the early 13th Century and is Grade 2 listed. Standing on high ground to the eastern end of the village its spire can be seen ...
