Nov 13, 2023 | Memories, News, People, Places
My memories of living in Archery Road I lived in Archery Road from 1945-1965. My parents were stationed at RAF Gaydon during the Second World War and they married in 1944 in London (they were both Londoners). I was born in February 1945. After renting in Leamington...
Apr 3, 2022 | Featured, Memories, People, Places, Uncategorized
Walter Ritchie was the son of a Coventry carpenter who trained with local stonemasons to become a fully -fledged sculptor by the age of 18. He said that they taught him how to hold a hammer and a chisel, – and a crowbar – in his words, “a very useful tool.” ...
Feb 9, 2022 | Featured, News, People, Places
William Munger Heynes (31.12.1903 – 11.07.1989) William Heynes was born at 11 Percy Terrace, Leamington Spa, one of a family of five boys. He was educated at Warwick School from 1914 to 1921, when he started as an apprentice draughtsman at the Humber Car Company in...
Jan 25, 2022 | Memories, News, People, Places
Rosemary Guiot (pictured left, as a small girl) now lives in Cubbington, but has close connections to Bath Street and its Victorian past. Her great-grandfather, William George Pugh grew up in Leominster, Herefordshire, moved first to Liverpool, then Nottingham, and...
Oct 17, 2021 | News, People, Places
In the summer of 2016, Leamington History Group received a message asking for help from Alberto Guido Chester, a knife historian and researcher in Argentina who had acquired a “gaucho” knife probably made in the 19th Century and stamped ‘Hobson...
