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Parish Boundary

Parish Boundary

The parish was for many centuries the limit of most people’s life. The parish was their social security system, their safety blanket in times of stress, their extended family, so it was vitally important that they knew the extent of their home parish. When people...
Edith Mary Warr

Edith Mary Warr

Edie, aged 100, recalls lively episodes from her long life in Leamington – her workdays, her husband’s bands, their motorbike and sidecar. 48 minutes. 47MB file. This recording was made as part of the “History @ Bath Place” project, 2007-9....
The Manners-Sutton sisters

The Manners-Sutton sisters

In the early years of the 19th century the  new town of Leamington Priors was seen as a fashionable place for well-connected members of society to settle. Few families who came to live here had a more aristocratic ancestry than the five Manners-Sutton sisters who came...
Leamington Town Halls

Leamington Town Halls

The old town hall Many residents are unaware that the large Victorian building on the town’s main street, The Parade, is the second town hall to be built in Leamington Spa. The original town hall, a classical building of modest proportions was built in 1830 in High...
The Free Czechoslovak Army

The Free Czechoslovak Army

During the Second World War, the Free Czechoslovak Army (FCA) was based in Leamington Spa and a memorial fountain in the shape of a parachute in the town’s Jephson Gardens records their stay. It also commemorates one of the most daring undercover missions of the war...