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Ron Ransford

Ron Ransford

Ron Ransford is a very well-known figure in Leamington. For many years, his family ran a building/demolition/recycling business in the town, and Ron has personally “seen off” a number of old Leamington landmarks during his working life.If you want to know where some...
A Titanic Survivor: Florence Agnes Angle née Hughes

A Titanic Survivor: Florence Agnes Angle née Hughes

8th March 1876 – 20th August 1969 Florence Agnes Hughes started working life as an asylum nurse at Hatton Hospital, married William Angle, a Minton tile fixer from Staffordshire, at Warwick in the autumn of 1906, and emigrated with him to America, in search of a...
Ethel Harraden

Ethel Harraden

Ethel Rosalie Harraden (Mrs Frank Glover) – 1857-1917. Ethel Rosalie Harraden was born in Islington, the older daughter of Samuel Harraden, a London and Calcutta Agent, and also a musician. She was reputed to have begun composing at the age of five, and later studied...
Eva Sabin’s Wartime Memories

Eva Sabin’s Wartime Memories

A few memories of a child in wartime by Eva Sabin, nee Kilby. I grew up in Kilby’s shop in High Street. We lived above the shop with my grandparents who owned it. My first recollection of the Second World War is a Sunday morning in the shop with my mother listening to...
Jane Wray Gowns

Jane Wray Gowns

Jane Wray  Gowns – Victoria Colonnade, Royal Leamington Spa Although the elegant figure on the left may not be instantly recognisable, many older Leamingtonians will remember  her as ‘Jane Wray’, owner of the fashionable dress shop in the Colonnade.  She...