Feb 10, 2025 | Memories, People, Places
Burgis & Colbourne, also known as The Bedford Stores, was founded by Charles Richard Burgis in 1855, at the age of 24. He broke away from his Oxfordshire family to set up on his own in fashionable Royal Leamington Spa, opening his first shop in Regent Street,...
Feb 1, 2025 | Memories, News, People, Places, Slides
Updated February 2025 This page is provided so that visitors can obtain an idea of what is currently available on the website (Some titles have been amended so that useful words appear first in this alphabetical list) A to E F to J K to O ...
Jan 26, 2025 | Memories, People, Places
Roma Alice WARR / BENNETT / BILLINGTON My grandmother, Alice WARR was born in Neithrop, on the edge of Banbury, in 1887. Her father, Jason John WARR, was a coachman and the WARR family had been living mainly in South Newington – indeed, they were back there by 1891....
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...
Nov 18, 2024 | Featured, Memories, News, Places
The Art Box in Clarendon Avenue, near the ‘top’ of the Parade, is an historic Model K6 telephone kiosk which has been repurposed by the Friends of Christchurch Gardens to display images. We are grateful that the Friends have invited us to mount a show. Our...
Nov 17, 2024 | Featured, Memories, News, Places
On 6th November we were pleased to launch our new video, ‘Leamington Spa, University Town’. It tells of the impact of the University of Warwick and its students and staff on the town over sixty years. It addresses the positive and negative consequences of...