Articles with the tag: Bath Street

The James Family

The James Family

Nov 17, 2013 | People

  The James family were involved in the local licensed trade for over eighty years.  Francis James commenced his business activity on 23rd July 1897, when he took over from James Walters the Park Tavern Inn, at 1a Union Road, Packmores, Warwick, (renamed Lakin Road in...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 – 1947

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 – 1947

May 22, 2013 | People

Few if any of those waiting for their prescriptions in a south Leamington chemist will know that the father of modern forensic medicine was born in the flat upstairs. On 16 May 1877 the manufacturing chemist James Spilsbury’s first child was born in the flat above his...
21 Bath Street: The history of a house

21 Bath Street: The history of a house

Feb 18, 2013 | Places

[divider] Beginnings In 1784 Benjamin Satchwell and William Abbotts discovered a spring in Bath Lane in the hamlet of Leamington Priors, and 2 years later opened Abbotts Original Baths. At this time, much of the hamlet and surrounding land was owned by a handful of...

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