Oct 10, 2025 | Featured, People, Places
An article about the Camouflage Directorate which operated in Leamington in the Second Word War can be viewed HERE. This article shows the unveiling a commemorative plaque on the Regent Hotel on 24th September 2025 by the Mayor, Councillor Ruggy Singh. The hotel was...
Sep 11, 2025 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
In 2025 our Heritage Day was on Saturday, 13th September at All Saints’ Parish Church from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm. We had 25 different exhibitors who joined us and we thank them all for making it a very enjoyable and successful event. At least 532 people came to...
Aug 31, 2025 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
The Leamington Borough Police HQ was housed in what is now the Leamington Polish Centre in High Street, and until 1968 it was the original Leamington Police Station, which then moved to Hamilton Terrace before being incorporated within the Warwickshire Criminal...
Jul 24, 2025 | Featured, Places
Welcome from Rose Herbert.This webpage is a summary and expansion of one of my 2019 MA History of Art essays from the University of York about the stained glass in Our Lady’s Roman Catholic Church, Valley Road, Lllington. After considering options for...
Jun 20, 2025 | Featured, News, People
Sadly, we have to announce that Alan Griffin, long-term member and founder of the Leamington History Group, has died. All Images by Allan Jennings Margaret Rushton has kindly written this summary of his life. Alan grew up in Southam, one of three sons of a baker who...
May 7, 2025 | Featured, Memories, News, People
Leamington History Group successfully launched its latest local history book on 7th May. Copies can be obtained for £20 from secretary@leamingtonhistory.co.uk chair@leamingtonhistory.co.uk Anthony Eden Barbers, Clarendon Street Warwick Books, Market Place, Warwick...
