Updated February 2025
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100 Buildings, The Story of Royal Leamington Spa in . . .
1950s South Leamington Home
A 1940s People Carrier
A South Leamington Home in the 1950s
A Titanic Survivor: Florence Agnes Angle née Hughes
A Wise Bequest: Henry Wise’s unplanned contribution to the development of Victor
Agricultural Show, Warwickshire Agricultural Show 1899
Alfred Lyttelton, cricketer, politician, etc
All Saints, The Parish Church, a Slideshow
Alphabetical index of all articles on the site
Althorpe Arms, The Reading sisters: growing up in the Althorpe Arms
Althorpe Street – Leamington Priors: A Social History 1781-1841
Althorpe Street – Leamington Priors: A Social History 1841-1901
Althorpe Street – Leamington Priors: A Social History 1901-1961
Angle née Hughes, Florence Agnes, Titanic Survivor
Antiquarian and Basket Maker, W J Bradley, (1873 – 1964),
Anyone for Tennis? Jephson Gardens etc
AP, Automotive Products or Lockheed Brakes
Architects of Victorian Leamington
Architect, William Thomas in Leamington
Architects Who Built Leamington
Archives of LHG, Progress with Sorting Digital collection
Argentina, Hobson, John, Knife found in Argentina
Aristocrats, Some early aristocratic residents
Archives of the Leamington History Group
Ashwin, Elizabeth Anne, intrepid nonagenarian
Automotive Products or Lockheed Brakes or AP, Part Two
Automotive Products or Lockheed Brakes, AP, Part One
Baptist Chapel, Clarendon Street
Barker, Miss Alice Rosa – A Bustle Abroad
Basil James Nightingale, artist
Basket Maker and Antiquarian, W J Bradley, (1873 – 1964),
Basque children, Leamington connection
Bath Chair, The Last Bath Chair
Bath Place School in the 1940s
Bath Street, Surcombe and Heard – Owners and Occupants of 21/60 Bath Street
Bath Street, The Smith Family of Bath Street
Bath-Chair Man, Thomas Timms 1855 – 1934 Leamington’s Last Bath-Chair Man
Beamish, Mary, Victorian Farmer
Bedford Hotel, Seeing is Believing, – but is it?
Beech Lawn, Home of Dr Jephson
Bennett, George Matthews, Bonesetter
Bernard Spilsbury, Sir, 1877 – 1947
Best Place to Live in the Midlands 2023
Bicycle manufacture, Bowden, BG, and the 1946 Streamline Cycle
Birth of a Spa Town, film, video
Blondin: A High time in the Pump Room Gardens
Blue plaque unveiling for Benjamin Satchwell June 2015
Bomber Boys of Leamington College
Bombing, A Memorial to those who died in Leamington Spa in World War II
Bone family of 9 Spencer Street
Bone, Thomas, Relieving Officer
Bonesetter, George Matthews Bennett
Boundary of the Parish, Marker Stones
Boundary Walk – Part One – Back of the Golf Course
Boundary Walk – Part Two – Pedlar’s Wood
Boundary Walk – Part Three – River Leam
Boundary Walk – Part Four – Whitnash Ocean
Boundary Walk – Part Five – Boundary hedge
Boundary Walk – Part Six – Park to Whitnash
Boundary Walk – Part Seven – Cemetery
Boundary Walk – Part Eight – Lockheed to Old Warwick Road
Boundary Walk – Part Nine – Leam to the Dell
Boundary Walk – Part Ten – The Dell to Binswood
Boundary Walk – Part Eleven – Binswood Avenue
Boundary Walk – Part Twelve – Hill Street to Black Lane
Bowden, BG, and the 1946 Streamline Cycle
Bradley, W J Bradley, (1873 – 1964), Basket Maker and Antiquarian
Brass Bands, Leamington Spa Brass Bands: A Brief History
Brenton, Sir Jahleel, Nelson’s Band
Bromley, Massey (1846-1884) loco engineer
Brown, Sergeant of Police, FG Brown
Brunswick House School, and John Hugh Hawley
Brunswick Street Cemetery, Guided Walks around the
Builder, Stowe and Company Ltd,
Builder, William Gascoyne – builder
Burial grounds in Leamington, Guide to
Burlington Motor Company, Cars made in Leamington Spa
Bustle Abroad, Miss Alice Rosa Barker
Camouflage Directorate in Leamington Spa, WWII
Campbell, Sir Patrick, Nelson’s Band
Campion Terrace Water Works, 1988
Carol Circuit’s Leamington Mystery
Carteret, Sir Philip, Nelson’s Band
Cemetery, Brunswick Street, Guided Walks around
Census 2021, A resource for future local historians
Chapel, Clarendon Street Baptist
Chapels, Leamington’s First Floor
Charlie Johnson Payne (Snaffles)
Charles T Crowden 1859 -1922, Motor Car Heritage
Chief Constable, Thomas Taylor Earnshaw
Chief Inspector of Police, William Thomas Edwards, (1842-1909)
Christmas Island, Memories of Colin Jennings
Church, Congregational, Spencer Street
Circuit, Carol ‘s Leamington Mystery
Clarendon Street Baptist Chapel
Comics Genius, Gilbert Lawford Dalton
Confederate nest in Leamington Spa
Congregational Church, Spencer Street
Copper Beech Tree – Jephson Gardens, 1846 – 2013
Cricket, Leamington Cricket Club
Crowden, Charles T, 1859 -1922, Motor Car Heritage
Cutter, Catherine (1863-1946), headmistress
Cycle manufacture, Bowden, BG, and the 1946 Streamline Cycle
Czechoslovak Army, The Free Czechoslovak Army
Dalton, Gilbert Lawford, Comics Genius
Dam Buster Pilot, Henry Eric Maudslay, DFC
Dates, some dates on buildings in the town
Dawkes, Thomas, 1767 – 1835, Parish Clerk of All Saints
Delivering Newspapers for WH Smith
Dispensary, Provident, Forgotten local history
Early Television in Leamington
Earnshaw, Thomas Taylor, Chief Constable, 1902 to 1938
Edwards, William Thomas, Chief Inspector of Police (1842-1909)
Elephant Trainer Extraordinaire, Sam Lockhart,
Eliza Scarlett – Leamington widow and Jamaican slave owner
Elizabeth Anne Ashwin, intrepid nonagenarian
Elizabeth Anne Galton, 1808 – 1906
Enterprising Leamington, new book
Fair, Leamington Local History 2014
Farmer in Victorian times, Mary Beamish,
Firecracker! A Leamington Postal Scandal
Firefighting in the Village of Leamington Priors
Flavel, Sidney, senior, 1819-1892
Flavel, Sidney & Co, 1851 Medal
Flavels’ Part One, 1777 to 1875
Flavels’ Part Two, 1875 to 2015
Fleeming, Admiral Charles Elphinstone, Nelson’s Band
Florists, Wilkinsons: florists of Leamington
Football Club, Westlea Wanderers
Forest, Gilbert Hopkins, Pigman, Policeman, Publican
Forgotten local history: the Leamington Provident Dispensary
Fowler, Margaret Mary Maitland, OBE
Freeman of the Borough, Viscount Montgomery, Casket, 1947
Furniture Removals and Storage, Mousell Brothers
Gallery of Pictures of the Lights of Leamington, 1951 to 1961
Galton, Elizabeth Anne, 1808 – 1906
Garbutt, William, and Italian Football
Gascoyne, William Gascoyne – builder
George Matthews Bennett, Bonesetter
George Matthews Bennett, Bonesetter (1844 – 1913)
Gibberd, Sir Frederick, Architect
Goodfellow, Lt.-Gen. Charles Augustus V.C, November 1836 – September 1915
Goss, William Goss, House Furnisher
Graham Jones – woodcarver – revisits Jephson Gardens
Graham, Robert Leveston, Photographer
Grove, George William, Litigious Ironmonger
Guide to burial grounds in Leamington
Guided Walks to Explore Historic Leamington 2014
Guided Walks to Explore Historic Leamington Spa 2015
Guiot, Rosemary, and the Pugh Family of Bath Street
Hart, Mary of Brunswick Street
Hawley, John Hugh. and Brunswick House School
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Heard and Surcombe – Owners and Occupants of 21/60 Bath Street
Henry Eric Maudslay, DFC, Dam Buster Pilot
Henry Peach Robinson: pioneer Victorian photographer
Heraldry of Leamington – Gallery of Images
Herbert Mansfield Jenkins: December 1889 – February 1989
Heydrich Assassination, Czech Memorial
Heynes, William Munger, Chief Engineer Jaguar
Historical images of Priory Terrace
History of Leamington Spa slideshow
Hobson, John, Knife found in Argentina
How a Leamington ‘lad’ lost the Irish Crown Jewels and his life
Huntley, Dr Edith Ara, medical pioneer
Hyde, Norman, Motorcycle speed record
Irish Crown Jewels, How a Leamington ‘lad’ lost them and his life
Iron in Leamington – Coal-hole Covers
Ironmonger, Litigious, G W Grove
Ironsides, Janey and Christopher
Jaguar Cars – Heynes, William Munger, Chief Engineer
Jamaican slave owner, Eliza Scarlett – Leamington widow and
Jamaican slave owner, Scarlett, Eliza – Leamington widow and
Jenkins, Herbert Mansfield: December 1889 – February 1989
Jephson Gardens, Copper Beech Tree, 1846 – 2013
Jephson Gardens, Graham Jones – woodcarver
Jephson, Dr, Beech Lawn Home of
Jones, Graham – woodcarver – revisits Jephson Gardens
King of Clubs, William James Henri Lawton (1871-1964)
Lansdowne Circus, No 8, 1966-1972
Lawton, The “King of Clubs” William James Henri Lawton (1871-1964)
Leamington-built cars: the Tyrrell 001
Leamington College, Bomber Boys
Leamington History Group Archives
Leamington Licker, Randolph Adolphus Turpin
Leamington Local History Fair 2014
Leamington Spa History, slideshow
Leamington Spa Borough Police Special Constabulary
Leamington Spa Brass Bands: A Brief History
Leamington’s First Floor Chapels
Leamington’s First Velocipede?
Leamington’s Victorian Legacy, link to a video
Lewin Brothers, A Life in Music
Lights of Leamington, 1951 to 1961
Lillington Local History Society Programme 2015
Litigious Ironmonger, G W Grove
Living History Challenge January 2021
Lockhart, Sam, Elephant Trainer Extraordinaire
Lockheed Brakes, AP or Automotive Products
Lt.-Gen. Charles Augustus Goodfellow V.C, November 1836 – September 1915
Lyttelton, Alfred, cricketer, politician, etc
Mary Beamish, Victorian Farmer
Mary Louise Vellacott, Suffragist
Maudslay, Henry Eric, DFC, Dam Buster Pilot
Medal, 1851, Sidney Flavel & Co
Members’ Questionnaire January 2016
Memorial, Proposal for Civilian War Dead
Memories of Leamington slideshow
Miss Alice Rosa Barker – A Bustle Abroad
Montgomery, Viscount, Freeman of the Borough, Casket, 1947
Motor Car Heritage, Charles T Crowden 1859 -1922,
Mousell Brothers, Furniture Removals and Storage
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Nelson, Horatio, Band of Brothers
Newmarch, Rosa Harriet, 1857-1940
Nightingale, Basil James, artist
Nineteenth Century Slums in Leamington Spa
No 8 Lansdowne Circus, 1966-1972
No. 9 Spencer Street – History of the Occupants from 1875-2006
Norman Hyde, Motorcycle speed record
Old Boys of Leamington College
Our Guided Walks to Explore Historic Leamington 2014
Our Guided Walks to Explore Historic Leamington Spa 2015
Parish Clerk of All Saints, Thomas Dawkes, 1767 – 1835,
Parsons, Joan Alys Helen Mary, aviator
Payne (Snaffles), Charlie Johnson
Photographer, Robert Leveston Graham
Police, Leamington Spa Borough Police Special Constabulary
Police, William Thomas Edwards, Chief Inspector of Police (1842-1909)
Polish Community in Leamington Spa
Postal Scandal, Firecracker! A Leamington
Priory Terrace, Historical images of
Provident Dispensary, Forgotten local history
Pugh Family of Bath Street, Rosemary Guiot and the
Questionnaire for Members’ January 2016
Railways to and from Royal Leamington Spa, Part One
Railways to and from Royal Leamington Spa, Part Two
Railways to Royal Leamington Spa, Part Three
Randolph Adolphus Turpin, the ‘Leamington Licker’Ranelagh Gardens
Reading sisters: growing up in the Althorpe Arms
Remnants of Ridge and Furrow Fields in Leamington Priors
Ribbons, Leamington aid for Coventry weavers
Ridge and Furrow Fields, Remnants of in Leamington Priors
Robinson, Henry Peach: pioneer Victorian photographer
Sam Lockhart, Elephant Trainer Extraordinaire
Satchwell, Benjamin, Blue plaque unveiling June 2015
Scandal, Postal, Firecracker! A Leamington
Scarlett, Eliza – Leamington widow and Jamaican slave owner
School Sunshine House Nursery School
School, Bath Place National School
School, Bath Place Audio Recordings
School, Bath Place School in the 1940s
School, Travelling to School on the Train . . . . 1955 – 1962
Seeing is Believing, – but is it?
Sherbourne Lodge or Villa, Clarendon Street
Shrubland Hall School, 1924 to 1937
Sidney Flavel & Co, 1851 Medal
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 – 1947
Skating, Strictly Come Skating
Slums in Nineteenth Century Leamington Spa
Slums, Leamington Slum Clearance Ltd
Smith WH, Delivering Newspapers
Snaffles, Charlie Johnson Payne
Snow and Trains: Fun and Games in the Early Sixties
Soans (1) – A Family Business, The Early Years
Soans (2) – A Family Business – The Move to Leamington
Soans (3) – A Family Business – The Move to Sydenham
Soans (4) – A Family Business – Life after Ford
Some early aristocratic residents
Sources for Research, Books on line on Google
South Leamington Home in the 1950s
Spencer Street Congregational Church,
Spencer Street, No. 9 – History of the Occupants from 1875-2006
Spencer Street, The Bone family of 9 Spencer Street
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard, 1877 – 1947Sir Terry Frost
Still, Betty Monica, Telephonist
Stowe and Company Ltd, Builder
Streets of Leamington, The List
Streets of Leamington, Introduction
Suffragist, Mary Louise Vellacott,
Surcombe and Heard – Owners and Occupants of 21/60 Bath Street
Sydenham History Group Programme 2015
Tachbrook Road, Shops on the hill
Telephonist, Betty Monica Still
Television in Leamington, the early days
The “King of Clubs” William James Henri Lawton (1871-1964)
The Bone family of 9 Spencer Street
The Canal at Royal Leamington Spa
The Mayor Launches the Guided Walks for 2014
The Polish Community in Leamington Spa
The Reading sisters: growing up in the Althorpe Arms
The Smith Family of Bath Street
The Toone Family of Leamington Spa
The Wilkinsons: florists of Leamington
The Wilkinsons: florists of Leamington
Thomas Bone, Relieving Officer
Thomas Dawkes, 1767 – 1835, Parish Clerk of All Saints
Thomas Timms 1855 – 1934 Leamington’s Last Bath-Chair Man
Timms, Thomas 1855 – 1934 Leamington’s Last Bath-Chair Man
Titanic Survivor: Florence Agnes Angle née Hughes
Toone Family of Leamington Spa
Toovey Family, Leamington Artists
Towers, Leamington’s Lost Towers
Train travel to School . . . . 1955 – 1962
Trains and Snow and: Fun and Games in the Early Sixties
Tramway to Royal Leamington Spa
Travelling to School on the Train . . . . 1955 – 1962
Turpin, Randolph Adolphus, the ‘Leamington Licker’
Tyrrell 001, Leamington- built car
University Town, Leamington Spa, Film, Video
Vellacott, Mary Louise, Suffragist
Velocipede, Leamington’s First?
Victoria Cross, Henry Tandey VC DCM MM
Victoria Crosses, Leamington’s Great War
Victorian Farmer, Mary Beamish, Victorian Fa
Victorian Leamington, Architects of
Victorian Legacy of Leamington, link to a video
Victorian photographer, Henry Peach Robinson: pioneer
Virtual History Day September 2020
Visit of Chris White, MP, to LHG
W J Bradley, (1873 – 1964), Basket Maker and Antiquarian
Wackrill, Samuel Thomas (1828 – 1907), First Mayor of Leamington
Walks, Our Guided Walks to Explore Historic Leamington Spa 2020
War, Proposed Memorial to Civilian Dead
Warr, Harry, Builder and Bandleader
Warwickshire Agricultural Show 1899
Water Works, Campion Terrace, 1988
Westlea Wanderers Football Club
What’s in a Grave? a Nineteenth Century Soldier in Leamington
When Long Arm of the Law Drove Jaguar Mk V
White, Chris, MP, Visit to LHG
Whitehead, Frederick and Elizabeth, artists
Whitwell, Thomas Stedman, Architect
William James Henri Lawton, The “King of Clubs” (1871-1964)
William Thomas Edwards, Chief Inspector of Police (1842-1909)
Wise Bequest: Henry Wise’s unplanned contribution to the development of Victor
Woodbine Street Recording Studio
World War One, Poppies Memorial