Sep 9, 2024 | Memories, News, People, Places
A brief history of Burlington Motor Company of Leamington Spa written by its founder Haydn Davies I have always had an interest in home-built cars and in the mid/late 1970s there was an upsurge in companies building kits for such things and, the more I looked at the...
Jul 16, 2024 | Featured, News
Our new Calendar is available now from secretary@leamingtonhistory.co.uk and the places in the flyer below
Jun 20, 2024 | Featured, News, People, Places
https://youtu.be/_XoBok1_iIE This is the first in what we hope will be a series of videos about the history of Leamington, celebrating the town’s rich history, engaging with other groups across the community in the process of story-telling, and helping share...
Jun 17, 2024 | News, People
On the 6th June 2024 representatives of the Leamington History Group, the Vicar of All Saints Church, Father Christopher Wilson, the Mayor, Councillor Judith Clarke , Matt Western M.P. , the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, other dignitaries and members of the...
Jun 15, 2024 | News, People
Composer, Conductor, Pianist, Organist and Music Critic (aka The Man Who Buried Rupert Brooke) We are pleased to announce that a Blue Plaque remembering William Browne was unveiled in June 2024 at 23 Lillington Road. Images are at the end of this article. Born in...
Apr 12, 2024 | News, People, Places
Leamington College has long produced a well-known list of scientists, doctors, academic scholars, inventors and national-level sportsmen, but there are still one or two unsung heroes. Alongside luminaries such as Lytton Strachey, cricketer and biographer of Queen...
