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Present use
This building is known as "Studley Castle" and after the demise of Rover, who owned it, was sold to a hotel chain.
A memory of Studley contributed by Des Adams
Calling all who lived in meadowside between 1970 and 1980
Hiya all, This is Tracey Vincent (Harland). My family moved to Nuneaton around 1971 and we lived at 99 Meadowside for 9 years we had many friends. Denise and Fred Saxton along with their Children Joanne and Karen. I remember the day my Mam went to the hospital when Joanne was born. In the past four years my Mam and Dad have had major health problems and maybe its looking back at life they often talk about all. My Mum and Dad are Alan and Yvonne Harland please if any one remembers, feel free to contact me,
tjvin9664@wmconnect.com
Tracey Vincent, RR 2 Box 53, Fairmont, WV, 26554
Tel: 304-363-7987
A memory of Nuneaton contributed by Tracey Vincent
My Banbury gran's village.
My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington, water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. She had two children Arthur and Mary, my mother. We lived in Oxford and visited every two weeks arriving Saturday and going back to Oxford Sunday. We went by train to Banbury stopping at every village on the way, then caught a little yellow and green bus to Warmington. I made a lot of friends with the local children, we spent most of the time roaming round the fields, helping on the farm just below the cottages with a ...read more here
A memory of Warmington contributed by Michael Bennett
Waifs and Strays Society
From approximately 1939-1945 the house was taken over by the Waifs and Strays Society becoming a home for 40 boys. They had moved from Chislehurst, Kent. The house was also used as a landmark by German bombers during their attacks on Coventry.
A memory of Warwick contributed by Ronald Forrest
Extracts From Ashby St Ledgers & Warwickshire 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".
Pooley Hall was built by Thomas Cockayne between 1506 and 1509 on the site of a much older house. It has an embattled
tower with a stair turret, and is built of red brick with stone mullions and quoins. Though it is a highly unlikely story, there
are said to be secret passages connecting Pooley Hall to Polesworth Abbey.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
The Abbey Church of St Editha dates from Norman times, but Polesworth Abbey is said to have been founded by King
Egbert in 827. He installed his daughter (some say his sister) Editha as its first abbess. The church contains an effigy of an
abbess dating from c1200. While too late to represent Editha, it is said to be the earliest effigy of an abbess in England.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Polesworth has developed on
both sides of the River Anker,
with the original Saxon
settlement on the north bank.
The photographer in this
instance was looking across
to the south bank, recording
for posterity a scene which
no longer exists: only the
bridge survives. It was built in
1776 and widened in 1924.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
What is now called
Kingsbury Water Park
contains 30 pools like this,
set in 600 acres of the Tame
Valley. The legacy of five
decades of sand and gravel
extraction, the water park
has been open to the public
since 1975. It receives over
300,000 visitors a year,
mainly for bird watching,
angling, walking, horse
riding and water sports.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".