Mar 29, 2021 | People, Places
This is a video of the talk on Zoom by Barry Franklin on Monday 22nd March 2021 with Introduction by Michael Pearson. Please excuse the untidy start in the first 30 seconds or so. Council Houses 1919 to 1939.
Mar 16, 2021 | Featured, People, Places
NOTE: This page is a revised and more comprehensive version of the subject than the previous page with a similar title and lists over 140 architects. Introduction Following the date when a village of simple cottages, a spring and a small church, named Leamington...
Mar 9, 2021 | People, Places
Frederick Foster (1851 to 1929, age 78) was born in North Marston near Winslow in Buckinghamshire on 25th January 1851; he was the eighth son of Joseph Foster who was a tenant farmer and the family is recorded as moving quite frequently from farm to farm. His...
Mar 3, 2021 | People, Places
This video about the story of a house in Priory Terrace by Janet Ainley was first made available at our virtual meeting on 22nd February 2021. Some glitches have been corrected and this new version can now be viewed on YouTube by clicking on the image
Feb 27, 2021 | People, Places
Frederick William Hobill Lee (about 1876 to 1954, aged 78) was the son of Frederick W Lee, a local builder of No 18 Clarendon Avenue. He was active as an architect in Leamington Spa from around 1898 to 1954 in a partnership with Harry Quick which was simply known as...
Feb 16, 2021 | Memories, People, Places
In the days before mobile phones, as far as I have been able to discover, this system for contacting police officers on the beat, or allowing them to contact the station, was in use in Leamington from 1941 to about 1956. I have managed to find the location of nine of...
