This building stands on the corner of Pound Lane and Cubbington Road. It was designed by John Cundall in 1882 as the Local Board of Health Offices for Lillington, before Lillington was incorporated into the Borough of Royal Leamington Spa. An early postcard describes it as Corporation House. The Local Board represented an early form … Read more
“Binsbrook and the quaint little Alpine Bridge by which it was crossed in Portland Place have both passed away, but the sylvan loveliness of this silver streak may be easily imagined by the observer who will glance at its deep delved bed still extant at the east end of old Comber House, Milverton, facing the … Read more
In response to an increasing demand for school places in the locality, Clapham Terrace School was commissioned by the Leamington School Board. The Leamington Spa Courier of the day reported that “ To all appearances the schools are built as public buildings should be – substantially and well – and the School Board are to … Read more
In early Victorian England very few children from ordinary families attended school. For lots of parents, with many mouths to feed, it was not a priority. In village communities such as Lillington, where the majority of the men were employed as agricultural labourers, many parents themselves could not read or write. A Gloucester philanthropist, Robert … Read more
The Grade II* listed building at No 27 Binswood Avenue, which was known as Binswood Hall when it was part of North Leamington School, is now known as Audley Binswood, and offers well-appointed residential accommodation for older people. It was designed by the local architect Daniel Squirhill and when opened in 1847/48 it was the … Read more
Beech Lawn, “Dr Henry Jephson’s splendid mansion” once stood at the south-west corner of the crossing of Warwick Street and Dale Street. It appears that the land was sold in July 1831 to several people including Daniel Winter Burbury. Designed by a local architect, William Startin, the house was built by Stephen Peasnall and a … Read more
In 1861, a Robert Hobson was living in York Terrace (now the Upper Parade) with his wife, eleven children (of 15) and eleven servants. In the 1861 census Mr Hobson was described as a “Gentleman”. He decided to purchase a piece of land between Beauchamp Avenue and Clarendon Avenue. The land is currently occupied by Kingsley … Read more
Victoria Eleanor Louise Doorly, known as Eleanor, was a teacher and writer of children’s books. For her biography of Marie Curie, ‘The Radium Woman’, she won the 1939 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, which recognises the year’s best children’s book by a British subject. She was born in 1880 in Richmond Hill, Port … Read more
Dr L L Zamenhof© Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. It was created in 1887 by Dr Ludwig Lazare Zamenhof (1859-1917), an idealistic opthalmologist of Polish- Jewish extraction, and its first adepts lived in the then Russian Empire. From about 1900 onwards, Esperanto began to gain adherents in Great Britain. The names and … Read more
Feldon School was set up at Milverton Hill by Dr J.L. and Mrs S.A. Matthews in the summer of 1950. They had taken over a small private school, ‘Ardmore’ based at 69 Willes Road/corner of Leam Terrace in September 1948, when Ardmore’s previous owners left to run a boarding establishment in Monmouth. In a matter … Read more
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 presentation. Click on the two-headed arrow symbol in … Read more
When the last member of the Wise family died in 1924, and the handsome contents of Shrubland Hall had been sold at auction by Loveitts, a teacher by the name of Miss Nellie Gurney Callier came from Daventry to take the house and grounds to run as a “High Class Boarding School for Girls”. Miss … Read more
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