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Newbold Comyn

Newbold Comyn

What’s in a name?  The Newbold part of the above local name is quite simple, – the ‘New’ denoting a parcel of land newly brought into cultivation.  Whilst ‘Bold’ is Saxon for a building, the two words together indicate an area of land or village more recently...
A Time to Remember

A Time to Remember

Thursday 18 June marked the 73rd anniversary of Operation Anthropoid and the mission of the seven Czech soldiers to assassinate the Nazi tyrant Reinhard Heydrich.  The Friends of the Czech Memorial Fountain, including many living relatives of the 4000 soldiers...
Women in the Cricket Field

Women in the Cricket Field

 A trawl through back copies of the Leamington Courier in search of archive material relating to Leamington Cricket Club turned up an intriguing announcement by Mr W A Bezant in the editions of June 1890, – the forthcoming “Engagement, for one day only, of...
Westlea Wanderers Football Club

Westlea Wanderers Football Club

It is fifty years since Westlea Wanderers got together, – a group of lads playing football for fun on the local rec, who gradually became a force to be reckoned with.  They started their campaign for recognition in the Leamington Sunday League Youth Section and...