Articles with the tag: Leamington Priors

Flavel’s Part One of two

Flavel’s Part One of two

Apr 6, 2015 | People, Places

Part One, 1777 to about 1875 [Note – A version of these articles in a different format is available HERE] This follows the firm from some early members of the Flavel family to the time when Sidney Flavel junior took the reins from Sidney senior. The history of...
Flavel’s Part Two of two

Flavel’s Part Two of two

Apr 6, 2015 | People, Places

Part Two, about 1875 to 2015. [Note – A version of these articles in a different format is available HERE] This follows the firm from the moment when Sidney Flavel junior took the reins to the present day.   Sidney Flavel junior (1847 to 1931) was educated...
Thomas Baker, 1808 – 1864

Thomas Baker, 1808 – 1864

Apr 1, 2015 | People

  Although known  professionally as ‘Baker of Leamington,’  Thomas Baker was born in Harborne, Birmingham, the son of the headmaster of Harborne Free School. He studied in Birmingham under the artist Joseph Vincent Barber, (who had business...
John Hugh Hawley and Brunswick House School.

John Hugh Hawley and Brunswick House School.

Mar 18, 2015 | People, Places

In 1856, Mr JH Hawley of the Castle School Kenilworth, announced in the Leamington Courier his intention to set up a ‘Classical and Commercial School’ in Brunswick Place, Leamington. An advertisement in the Courier in November of that year referred to...
Sergeant FG Brown, Leamington Borough Police Force

Sergeant FG Brown, Leamington Borough Police Force

Feb 19, 2015 | Places

  Frederick George Brown was born in 1835 in Leamington Priors to John and Charlotte Brown. John was a local carpenter and had five surviving children, four sons and one daughter. Three of his sons became policemen – two of them, including Frederick, were...

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