MEMORY MONDAY By now, your 2021 Census information pack will have landed on your door mat, for completion on 21st March. The information...

MEMORY MONDAY Today's photo from yesteryear dates back to the mid to late 1970s. The photo is used with kind permission of Lyn and Mike,...

MEMORY MONDAY Before Christmas, I was contacted by Susan, niece of Francis Dudley Ward (known as Dudley), regarding her uncle’s...

John Webb from Burton Green writes: A few weeks ago some members were enquiring about local residents in the 1950s. In particular David...

Memory Monday Cicely was born in Westwood Heath in 1879, the daughter of the Headmaster Edwin Neale and his wife, Sarah. Cecily recalls...

Memory Monday Amongst the objects looked after by staff at the Warwickshire Museum can be found a sash and a ribbon once proudly worn by...

Memory Monday Today's offering comes from the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick. As well as many other interesting...

MEMORY MONDAY It is always interesting to read how previous generations envisaged the future. Have their predictions come true? What...

Memory Monday “No poet has ever rhymed about the overgrown hamlets I write of; nevertheless, the changes fill with a foolish melancholy...

MEMORY MONDAY Today we have several images that cover some of the remaining pictures from the collection that Jay Jay Mckeown gave us....

MEMORY MONDAY Today we take a walk down Charter Avenue towards the Fletchampstead Highway, from Westwood Heath into Canley. The original...

Origins The Warwickshire Reformatory Institution for Girls was established in 1856 at Allesley Farm, Tile Hill Lane. At first glance,...

Memory Monday Today we have a walk around the Ivy Farm Lane Conservation Area. This is the red ringed area shown on the hand drawn map...

Memory Mondays In the second set of old photographs from those put on the Facebook site by Jay Mckeown we take a walk down Cromwell Lane,...

Memory Monday Back in April Jay Mckeown posted a fascinating compilation of photos on this Facebook page. They were taken in the 1960s...

Today’s Memory Monday is inspired by an article on “Old Customs” printed in the Royal Leamington Spa Courier on 24th May, 1873. The...

On Friday we commemorate the 75th anniversary of V.E. Day. This marked the end of nearly 6 years of war and suffering, costing millions...

At the start of lockdown, Karen Stevenson posted with some reflections on living through this period as a historical event and how...

The first of a regular look at local events as reported in newspapers of days gone by. Easter has been very different for us all this...

MEMORY MONDAY “Then & Now” Today’s old photograph, from the early part of the 20th Century, is of Tile Hill Station, looking...