Mar 20, 2021 | Memories, News, People
Lockdown Living History Research Challenge Thank you to all contributors for the Leamington History Group’s Living History Lockdown Project. The ‘Leamington Scrubbers’ When the Covid pandemic took hold, Ashleigh Linsdell, a nurse from Cambridge, started a grass-roots...
Feb 16, 2021 | Featured, Memories, People, Places
In the days before mobile phones, as far as I have been able to discover, this system for contacting police officers on the beat, or allowing them to contact the station, was in use in Leamington from 1941 to about 1956. I have managed to find the location of nine of...
Jan 1, 2021 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
Tachbrook Road was one of the early residential streets in Leamington, but it has changed character several times over the years. In 1893, Tachbrook Road included such smart addresses as Claremont Terrace, Eastnor Terrace and Park Place, where a Miss Collins ran her...
Sep 30, 2020 | Memories, People, Places
We are delighted at the success of our first video, “Birth of a Spa Town” We have commissioned a sequel following the life of the town in the second half of the nineteenth century. It will be entitled “Leamington’s Victorian Legacy” and we expect it...
Sep 11, 2020 | Memories, People
This Family History Advice Session forms part of our Virtual Leamington History Day 2020. We all need advice sometimes on researching our family history whether we are very experienced or just beginning. This Zoom meeting with Jacqui Kirk, professional genealogist,...
May 28, 2020 | Memories, Places
Again from the pen of Stella Bolitho on 28th May 2020 Answers on the page about Benjamin Satchwell (the man not the pub) Interesting places: Leamington 1 TEFLATEORHT 2 STORYPALACEREN 3 PROMPOSUM 4 JSDRAGONSHEPEN 5 PATRICKOVIAR 6 RUSACHALClLNTHS 7 GLUBBIEDSNYIND...
