Apr 24, 2020 | Memories, People, Places
This was a Challenge Project during Lockdown, 2020-2021 Six people entered the challenge and received one vote each. Their entries are published here B01. ALAN JONES. ROLLING STONES at HYDE PARK 1969 It was probably a Friday or Saturday evening, in June 1969, when the...
Dec 28, 2019 | News, People
Few visitors to the parish church can fail to see the various memorial tablets on the wall of the north transept. A number of these plaques record the death in Leamington of senior naval officers who had served in the wars against the French. A little research reveals...
Oct 13, 2017 | News, People
The story of the ship’s orchestra playing the hymn ‘Nearer my God to Thee’ as the Titanic sank is well known and documented. Survivors of the sinking also recounted how a Roman Catholic priest gathered more than a hundred passengers round him on the...
Jun 26, 2017 | Memories, People, Places, Slides
Here is the history of Leamington College for Boys, otherwise known as Binswood Hall, in Binswood Avenue. The story is told in 42 slides and was compiled by Alan Griffin. Click on the forward and back arrows on screen or on the keyboard to navigate through the...
