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Warwick Photographic Memories
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Leamington Spa Town and City Memories
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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.
Contributed by Ronald Forrest
Warwickshire memories
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
George Goode
George Goode who was born at Wappenbury in the 1840s was one of the builders who worked constructing this church. He was my great grandfather on my father's side of the family. His daughter was Ellen Louisa Goode who married Thomas Pratt. He was once an officer at the Reformatory at Weston under Wetherley. He later became a master baker and became baker at Moreton Morrell.
A memory of Leamington Spa contributed by susan Dyke
I lived here
I lived at The Malt House, Claverdon in the early mid 1960s. It was owned at the time by Mr Jefferson who lived in a lovely new bungalow a little further away. I loved this house even if it was a bit unusual to live in. I went to school in Claverdon and Miss Lewthwaite was my teacher she was really nice. Does anyone else remember this place?
I don't think the Malt House has changed that much, it still looks lovely in the modern photos I have seen of it. I bet the floors still slope upstairs.
In the barn at the end it had a "Copper" where my mum boiled the whites on washing ...read more here
A memory of Claverdon contributed by Deboragh Lewis
Extracts From Warwick & Warwickshire books
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".
Henry de Newburgh built a large wooden motte and bailey on the site of the present castle; before his death in 1123 he might well have begun to replace the wood with stone. During the Barons’ War, Warwick was sacked and all but destroyed by forces loyal to Simon de Montfort. In 1268 the earldom passed to the Beauchamp family, who set about the task of rebuilding. This photograph shows the domestic range, which is 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"English Castles".
At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the
tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the
will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick. His
tomb has a cage-like structure to cover it, which at one time
supported a velvet or brocade canopy. In the chapter house is
the tomb of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
This view looks from Lord Leycester’s Hospital along the High Street.
Built in 1571, the hospital provided accommodation for 12 poor
brothers, former soldiers who had seen service with the family. They
were required to wear a blue gown and the silver badge of the Bear
and Ragged Staff of the Warwick earldom.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
Built in the 1630s,
this is one of the
few timber-framed
buildings to have
survived the 1694 fire.
The travel agent Lunn
Poly now occupies
the greater part of
it. The ground floor
has been altered very
slightly, but the upper
floors are externally
unchanged. The other
buildings in this scene
have undergone
various degrees
of modernisation,
ranging from just-
about-acceptable to
downright disastrous.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".