Articles with the tag: Places


A South Leamington Home in the 1950s

A South Leamington Home in the 1950s

A lot has been written about Leamington’s wells and churches, and everyone now surely knows all there is to know about its beginnings. I am writing of life, seen through the eyes of a child during the 1950s in the side streets, away from the town centre, in the...
Newbold Beeches

Newbold Beeches

  Newbold Beeches was an imposing mansion built on a hilltop site overlooking the Leam and most parts of North Leamington.  The house was sited on a parcel of land acquired from Lady Willes, on the side of a steep hill.  To create a sufficiently large flat site...
Campion Terrace Water Works, 1988

Campion Terrace Water Works, 1988

Built in 1875, at the instigation of Henry Bright, backed by Aldermen Wackrill (then Mayor), Bishop and Bradshaw, Campion Terrace Water Works were the first publicly owned waterworks in the country to supply a whole town – Leamington Spa – and the...
Leamington’s First Floor Chapels

Leamington’s First Floor Chapels

Leamington had many chapels, some are long gone, others have been put to alternative uses, and some lie empty,  probably damp and derelict, awaiting their fate.  The ex- Baptist chapel on Clarendon Street is one such, being proposed currently for demolition and...
The Dell

The Dell

  The Dell is a small public open space below street level in the Leamington suburb of Milverton. It is bounded by Warwick Terrace, Beauchamp Hill, the rear of Albany Terrace and Warwick Street / Warwick Place, opposite the venerable Star and Garter public house....
Warwickshire Agricultural Show 1899

Warwickshire Agricultural Show 1899

 This Show was held at Victoria Park in 1899 The photograph was taken from the railway embankment before Park Drive was built. The show took place on the 19th & 20th of July as was reported in the Leamington Spa Courier of 22nd July (the Courier was published on a...