Sep 9, 2024 | Memories, News, People, Places, Vehicles
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...
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...
Apr 23, 2024 | People, Places
T T Earnshaw was born at Rochdale in 1870 and had 13 years’ experience in various policing roles in St Albans, Wakefield and Wigan, where he served as Chief Superintendent, before his appointment as Leamington Chief Constable in 1902. From that year until his death 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...
Mar 24, 2024 | News, People, Places
Introduction The design, construction and maintenance of the individual buildings in the town are obviously the backdrop to the town as we know it today. We have already addressed the architects who designed many of the buildings in other pages on this website and...
Feb 26, 2024 | Memories, News, People, Places
Now Royal Leamington Spa is well known for where Tennis was started and developed on the lawns of the Manor House Hotel, but how about this for a bit of history that few people appreciate took place. If you were to enter the Jephson Gardens through the main side gates...
