Dec 21, 2025 | Featured, Memories, News, People
This page begins as a reminder of the 40 Blue Plaques in the town. In addition there are two or three other plaques in memory of events. Clicking on the image of the plaque will lead to an article about the person. Most of these have been written especially for this...
Dec 1, 2025 | News, People
Rev Arthur Margoschis was born in Leamington Spa in 1852. He died of ill-health at a relatively young age in 1908 in India. He had dedicated his life to the people of the village of Saan Pathu (now known as Nazareth) in Tamil Nadu, South India. Thanks to Leamington...
Nov 23, 2025 | Memories, News, People, Places
Explore the history of Royal Leamington Spa with our Christmas Lucky Dip of a dozen random pages … Simply click on any number and see a page chosen from our website to, hopefully, widen your knowledge of the town. However if you want to search for a particular...
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...
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...
