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...
May 23, 2022 | Featured, People, Places
It is very important to start this article by saying that we understand that many people these days find the idea of taxidermy, the stuffing of animals, birds and fish, totally abhorrent. However, we also recognise that in earlier times the possession and collection...
Apr 3, 2022 | Featured, Memories, People, Places, Uncategorized
Walter Ritchie was the son of a Coventry carpenter who trained with local stonemasons to become a fully -fledged sculptor by the age of 18. He said that they taught him how to hold a hammer and a chisel, – and a crowbar – in his words, “a very useful tool.” ...
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...
