Mar 26, 2025 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
It was a fine day in Royal Leamington Spa as Balraj Singh Dhesi and his wife, Palweet, rose from bed and made special preparations for the day. It was 24th March 1988 and this was the day that they would meet Queen Elizabeth II as representatives of the residents of...
Mar 18, 2025 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
UPDATED. Don’t forget to pop into our free Leamington History Café for coffee, nearly every Tuesday 9.30 – 11.00 a.m. Our informal talks start at 10 a.m. This is the programme until 8th April 2025 All welcome! At The Band Factory, 13 Althorpe Street, Leamington Spa....
Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
We are delighted to commend the project by Whittle Productions to record the Lights of Leamington 1951 to 1961 and especially the memories of people from the time. They have two websites which describes the results of the project and several events this year, Lights...
Feb 10, 2025 | Featured, News, Places, Uncategorized
We have decided that because the book Royal Leamington Spa, A History in 100 Buildings, is now out of print and out of stock we would begin to add articles from the book to this website. They tell the stories of buildings of all types in the town from simple houses to...
Jan 4, 2025 | Featured, News, People
The Rear-Admiral who came to town. Contribution by David G.P. Morse Vice Chair and Archivist Leamington History Group Being involved with the Group’s website means that you get asked interesting questions and in some cases very interesting ones. One question that...
Dec 26, 2024 | Featured, Memories, People, Places
Since 2020 we have produced five films about the history of Leamington Spa spanning in excess of two centuries. We are grateful to our members and others who were closely involved with the creation, development, research and writing of these films; their names appear...
