Articles with the tag: Alan Griffin

Trooper Job Allwood

Trooper Job Allwood

Jun 18, 2013 | People

The British Army has engaged in many heroic actions over the years but few have achieved such legendary status as one during the Crimean War in October 1854. This action,  described by The Times reporter present as ‘an atrocity without parallel’ came to be known as...
William Goss, House Furnisher

William Goss, House Furnisher

Jun 18, 2013 | People

The Leamington Business Directory for 1899 lists many hundreds of small businesses at a period that was arguably the heyday of the independent trader in Leamington Spa. Many of the entries relate to what we would today call service industries. Whether you wanted a...
Dr Henry Jephson

Dr Henry Jephson

Jun 18, 2013 | People

The Leamington Priors mineral springs had been exploited by local physicians from the early eighteenth century but it wasn’t until the start of the nineteenth century that they were promoted on a commercial basis. Drinking health-giving mineral waters and regular...
Captain Arthur Kilby VC, MC

Captain Arthur Kilby VC, MC

Jun 6, 2013 | People

  For a comparatively small town, Leamington Spa can lay claim to five recipients of the Victoria Cross, the world’s most coveted medal for gallantry.  The town war memorial on The Parade bears the name of one of these brave men, Arthur Kilby VC, the only one of...
Sir Anthony Eden

Sir Anthony Eden

Jun 6, 2013 | People

Leamington Spa has been well served by her members of Parliament since the creation of the Warwick & Leamington constituency in 1885. Several of them achieved high office, two as Attorney General and another as Speaker of the House of Commons. The most...

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