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Rugby books (8 available)
- 10 photos on Rugby appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Rugby
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Douglas Scott
I wonder if someone can let me know the name of the man featured on the statue at the crossroads outside the hotel. I do remember that one of his names was repeated and seem to remember that it was .... Montague-Douglas-Scott. Who was he?
I used to pass that way on my way to and from Rugby High School on the 589 in the 1950s.
A memory of Dunchurch contributed by diana hagan
Almshouses
Wonder if any one can help.
I've family roots in Dunchurch - Mary Shaw 1855 - 1933 and Jane Shaw 1853 - 1943 both died in the Almshouses.
It has always been said that Jane died in mysterious circumstances in a fire.
Does anyone have any info that relates to this?
A memory of Dunchurch contributed by sue thorp
st peters church gates
Hi
hope someone can help, there is great debate going on in dunchurch at the moment. There is no record of when the church gates were put up and we need to find out because English Heritage are trying to stop them from being removed, but the church wants to replace them for security reasons. The oldest member of the congregation (92 years) cant remeber as she was away for most of the war. I have looked at some pictures from the 1950's and they are in place at the time but cant find anything older.
Hope someone can help us resolve this
Thanks
Louise
A memory of Dunchurch contributed by Louise Faill
Markham's of Bascote
My husbands family were from Bascote. His ancestor Edwin Markham moved there as an ag labourer in the 1870s. His wife Maria died shortly after, and he married again. He had very many children, and used to drink at the Fox and Hen pub - the landlords were witnesses at his wedding! Sadly his cottage, by the pub, has been demolished, but his children all stayed local to Bascote when they grew up; one of his sons died in the Great War, and is named on the Bascote Heath memorial.
A memory of Bascote contributed by rebekah markham
Extracts From Rugby & Warwickshire books
Nowadays, new estates or developments have streets named according to some irrelevant theme - anything from Cumbrian
lakes to South American countries. But ancient names such as High Street, Sheep Street and Market Place tell us what these
streets were for, or what happened there; in other words, they tell us something about the history of Rugby, which also has a
Wooll Street (off Sheep Street).
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Built-in bathrooms for most people were still something of
a novelty. For the majority, bathnight was held in a zinc
tub in front of the kitchen fire, and two or three people
might share the same water—though not at the same time.
Emptying the tubs could be fun: the knack was to avoid
creating a mini tidal wave when trying to move a bath full
of water.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
Vandals had defeated two previous attempts to plant the Jubilee trees, but in 1886 money for 127 new trees — and for the
guards to watch over them — was raised by public subscription. To the left, out of camera shot, lies Rugby School Lower
School (Lawrence Sheriff School). The shops on the right had all been private houses only a few years earlier.
An extract from from"Rugby Town and City Memories".
The school was originally located in premises opposite the parish
church, but had moved to its present site to the south of the town
by 1750; rebuilding began in 1809. Dr Thomas Arnold became
famous thanks to two books which proved influential in educational
circles. They were Arthur Stanley’s ‘Life and Correspondence of Dr
Thomas Arnold’ and Thomas Hughes’s ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
An extract from from"Rugby Town and City Memories".