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Firefighting in the Village of Leamington Priors

Firefighting in the Village of Leamington Priors

    It is fairly certain that the eighteenth century village of Leamington Priors had only the most basic equipment for use in the event of fire. Although larger towns and cities might boast one of the early manual fire engines, in villages up and down the...
A South Leamington Home in the 1950s

A South Leamington Home in the 1950s

A lot has been written about Leamington’s wells and churches, and everyone now surely knows all there is to know about its beginnings. I am writing of life, seen through the eyes of a child during the 1950s in the side streets, away from the town centre, in the...
Sunshine House Nursery School

Sunshine House Nursery School

 Sunshine House Nursery School 15 Warwick New Road     The Ordnance Survey map of 1886 shows 15 Warwick New Road approached by a sweeping drive, a substantial house and attached stable block set in good-sized gardens well-planted with trees. Named Milverton...
Firecracker! A Leamington Postal Scandal

Firecracker! A Leamington Postal Scandal

A Leamington Postal Scandal   Leamington’s first Postmaster in 1783 was Benjamin Satchwell, who oversaw a postal service very different from that of today.  A recognised postal system had been operating throughout most of the country since the 1630’s, whereby the...
Leamington Spa Borough Police  Special Constabulary

Leamington Spa Borough Police Special Constabulary

Leamington Spa Borough Police  Special Constabulary   Special Constables are not the relatively new institution that many people suppose. They date back as far as Anglo-Saxon times, when communities policed themselves, hundreds of years before the Police Force that we...