Aug 28, 2021 | Featured, People, Places
Leamington History Group will be running a number of Guided History Walks in September. These walks will be free of charge. Places on the walks can only be booked through the Visitor Information Centre. Please ring on 01926 456940 or call in person at the information...
Aug 25, 2021 | Featured, People, Places
Leamington History Group will be resuming its Private Guided Walks programme from September 2021. Tours will be available for groups or coach parties. The cost will be £5 per person with a minimum charge of £20 for each walk Bookings may be made by email to...
Aug 12, 2021 | Featured, Memories, People, Places
We are proud to launch our new video on 12th August 2021. This follows the story of our town from 1900 to around 1930. Simply click on the image above or this title “Life After Victoria” This video follows our two earlier ones entitled “Birth of a...
Jul 26, 2021 | Featured, Memories, News, Places
Our Calendar 2022 will soon be available. The calendar has 12 pictures from around the town. The cover picture is a William Thomas building in Upper Holly Walk. Once a fine gentlemen’s residence named Oak House and since the early 1950s home to The Liberal Club, who...
Jul 22, 2021 | Featured, People
Leamington History Group has recently been fortunate to receive information from Jacksonville, Florida. We are grateful that William J Stier has presented us with images of an original unpublished postwar carte de visite of Confederate President Jefferson F. Davis...
Jul 12, 2021 | Featured, People, Places
It is almost certain that Daniel Goodman Squirhill was born in 1809 in (Fenny) Stratford in Buckinghamshire, although he was recorded as being born a year earlier in the village of Nobottle in Northamptonshire by Toby Cave. His father, Charles, is said to have...
