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...
Jul 24, 2025 | Featured, Places
Welcome from Rose Herbert.This webpage is a summary and expansion of one of my 2019 MA History of Art essays from the University of York about the stained glass in Our Lady’s Roman Catholic Church, Valley Road, Lllington. After considering options for...
Jul 2, 2025 | People, Places, Vehicles
This page is one of several pages which are based on articles in our book entitled Royal Leamington Spa, A History in 100 Buildings which was published in 2018 and is no longer in print. Automotive Products was the major employer in Leamington for around 40...
Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, News, People, Places
Samuel Shepheard Stanley was one of four sons and four daughters of John and Sarah Stanley of Sydenham Farm. He was born in 1848 and with his siblings was taught at home by a governess. His older brother Joseph later became the farm manager, and eventually took over...
Apr 16, 2025 | Memories, People, Places, Uncategorized
This page is one of several pages which are based on articles in our book entitled Royal Leamington Spa, A History in 100 Buildings which was published in 2018 and is no longer in print. “Binsbrook and the quaint little Alpine Bridge by which it was crossed in...
