Articles with the tag: Businesspeople


Carol Circuit’s  Leamington Mystery

Carol Circuit’s Leamington Mystery

A few years ago I made a most extraordinary discovery and Leamington Spa is at the heart of this find. When I accepted a commission to reupholster a Victorian chaise longue, I expected to find the traditional stuffing of horsehair inside. Instead I found a cache of...
W J Bradley, (1873 – 1964), Basket Maker and Antiquarian

W J Bradley, (1873 – 1964), Basket Maker and Antiquarian

William Bradley was born into a family of Leamington basket makers, who grew their own osiers on a small island in the River Leam, adjoining Welch’s Meadow. Both Kit Smith and Eva Sabin remember a smallish, kindly man, working on his little patch in the river....
Stowe and Company Ltd, Builders

Stowe and Company Ltd, Builders

George Edward Stowe was born in 1891 in Leamington, where his father was a builder and joiner. He too became a carpenter and joiner and at the end of the Great War, Cecil Smith of 58 Bath Street lent George £50 to start his own building business. By the 1930s, George...
Malcolm Sayer

Malcolm Sayer

  On a Spring day in 1970 Malcolm Sayer suffered  a fatal heart attack on the main street of his adopted home town Leamington Spa, he was 53 years of age. In the years since his death, his achievements as a designer have been celebrated locally by the erection of...
Charles T Crowden 1859 -1922, Motor Car Heritage

Charles T Crowden 1859 -1922, Motor Car Heritage

Leamington’s Motor Car Heritage: Charles T Crowden 1859 -1922   Charles Thomas Crowden, an early automotive designer and engineer, settled in Leamington with his family, in Eastnor Grove in the 1890s. Charles Crowden came to Leamington and the motor trade via an...