Jun 10, 2022 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
Our new free town trail is based on a Commonwealth Theme. It will be a free guided walk around Central Leamington to learn more about the town’s past connections with the Commonwealth. The walk will visit ten locations including the Royal Pump Room, the Town...
Feb 9, 2022 | Featured, News, People, Places
William Munger Heynes (31.12.1903 – 11.07.1989) William Heynes was born at 11 Percy Terrace, Leamington Spa, one of a family of five boys. He was educated at Warwick School from 1914 to 1921, when he started as an apprentice draughtsman at the Humber Car Company in...
Feb 7, 2022 | Featured, News, People, Places
SIR FREDERICK GIBBERD, CBE, RA, FRIBA, MTPI, FILA, 1908 – 1984, was an English architect and landscape designer. Frederick Gibberd was born in Coventry on Tuesday 7th January 1908, the eldest of the five children of a local tailor, also Frederick (sometimes...
Feb 3, 2022 | Featured, Memories, News, People, Places
Leamington History Group is creating further awareness of our global past in a new book based on ‘Global Leamington’. We want to celebrate Leamington’s rich and diverse world history connections. Alongside this, we are developing a new, free Leamington...
Jan 25, 2022 | Memories, News, People, Places
Rosemary Guiot (pictured left, as a small girl) now lives in Cubbington, but has close connections to Bath Street and its Victorian past. Her great-grandfather, William George Pugh grew up in Leominster, Herefordshire, moved first to Liverpool, then Nottingham, and...
Jan 25, 2022 | News, People
Rosa Newmarch was born at 29 Lansdowne Place*, Leamington, the youngest of the family of four boys and three girls of the physician Samuel Jeaffreson. She was an artist, an accomplished musician, linguist, poet, writer, critic and composer, – and a wife and...
