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My Hurley
From the age of 48 hours until I was about 18yrs I lived and grew up in Hurley. I have done my fair share of moving around not only England but the world. From the busy, bright lights of London to spectacular, solitary mountains of New Zealand. Now all grown up at age 45, or as grown up as I'm probably ever going to get. Of all the places I've lived Hurley takes some beating. I now visit regularly to spend time with mum and dad and walk my dog, taking wonderful trips down memory lane as I clamber over stys and fields I played in as a child. Enjoying them all over again. As I leave Cheshire where I now ...read more here
A memory of Hurley contributed by Mandy Simpson
The White Horse
My Gt Gt Aunt Esther Parry and her husband Joseph kept it c1891 and my gt Aunt Annie who lived with them from a young age had it in 1901. She married Thomas Terry.
A memory of Baddesley Ensor contributed by Vicki Germain
The White Horse Inn
From 1980/84 I was part owner of the pub, we had a brilliant football team at the time and were an important social centre for the village. The pub no longer exists as it closed soon after I sold my share, however I do still have contact with some of my old regulars. Today I manage a small guest house in Cornwall but still get visitors from Baddesely.
A memory of Baddesley Ensor contributed by Andrew Hatton
Kevin Devine Remembers Little Jim's Cottage
In the early 1960s as a small boy, this was the home of my grandmother and grandfather, Hilda and John Guy. I remember going to visit them with my mother, Cynthia Joan Devine, formerly Guy.
I used to love running around the garden with their little terrier called Betty and around the pond you can see in the picture.
My grandparents had a chicken shed, and I was allowed in the morning to go and collect the eggs.
While I was there I was often allowed to stay up much later than normal and remember sleeping upstairs and hearing the adults talking downstairs.
Very sadly my grandfather, shortly followed by my grandmother, passed away and they are buried in Poleswoth churchyard ...read more here
A memory of Polesworth contributed by Victoria Devine
Extracts From Water Orton & West Midlands books
The original church was built on high ground above the River
Tame, on Old Church Road. It was founded in 1347 as a chapel
of ease to Aston. Water Orton became a separate parish in 1871,
and the new Church of St Peter and St Paul was built of brick in
1878-79. The spire was removed in 1987 because it had become
dangerously crumbly.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
The domestic buildings of Warwick Castle are
situated on the southern side of the fortress
overlooking the river. The roof of the Great
Hall and several other rooms were restored at
considerable cost after being seriously damaged
by fire in 1871.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
Bidford-on-Avon is one of eight
villages satirically described in
a rhyme attributed to William
Shakespeare and penned after
a heavy drinking session. The
Bard and his cronies had a
drinking bout at this inn with
the Bidford Sippers and lost.
Too drunk to make it back to
Stratford, they slept the night
under a crab-apple tree. The
rhyme attributed to him goes:
‘Piping Pepworth,
Dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough,
Hungry Grafton,
Dodging Exhall,
Papist Wixford,
Beggarly Broom,
Drunken Bidford’.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
Once famous for the manufacture of ribbons, Nuneaton’s industrial base
diversified to include ironworks, worsted factories, cotton and silk goods.
There were also coal mines, brickworks and tile making. A Midland Red
bus makes its way through the town. The bus station was built on the
site where the amusement fairs used to set up when they came to town.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
Nuneaton’s first market was granted to the
local prioress by Henry III. Among the market
traders who used to draw the crowds were Mrs
Gee, who literally sold crockery at knock down
prices by shouting out the price and banging
on an old tea chest. There was also a man who
sold foot oils. He demonstrated the effectiveness
of his product by jumping barefoot on a wooden
block studded with nails.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".