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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
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
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 contributed by rebekah markham
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 Whitnash & Warwickshire books
An extract from from"Leamington Spa Town and City Memories".
Mrs Hitchman, widow of Dr
Hitchman, donated the site for this
church together with a large sum of
money. St Mary’s was built between
1877 and 1878 by John Cundall in
brick with a prominent steeple. The
interior is brick-lined. The tower
was a mere 75 feet high and has
been cemented over. In 1875 the old
three-decker pulpit was removed and
the font re-located. The horse and
carriage gives a tranquil atmosphere
on a road which now leads to an
industrial estate.
An extract from from"Leamington Spa Town and City Memories".
The River Leam and All Saints’ Church
from the suspension bridge. On the left, the
high walls at the rear of the gardens give an
indication of the flood problems associated
with living on a river.
An extract from from"Leamington Spa Town and City Memories".
Another recreation ground
available to Rugbeians was the
Whitehall Recreation Ground on
Hillmorton Road, which housed a
28-ton, armoured First World War
tank presented to the town in 1919,
in recognition of contributions to
National War Savings. In 1940 the
tank was sold for scrap as part of a
new war effort.
Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee
was celebrated not only with the
Clock Tower, but also with an
extensive tree-planting project along
selected roads leading into Rugby
(see Clifton Road overleaf).
Dunchurch, 4 miles to the south-
west of Rugby, is a small village of
thatched cottages and popular public
houses and restaurants. The village
green boasts a two-seater set of stocks
(last used in 1866) and a thatched bus
shelter. At the cross-roads stands the
market cross on a stepped, medieval
base, the cross itself replaced in 1813
by a milestone.
An extract from from"Rugby Town and City Memories".
In 1862 the church was enlarged, with
a spacious nave replacing the original
aisle and Lady Chapel, leaving the nave
and chancel to form the south aisle.
Unfortunately the tiny saddleback tower
of the old church was now seriously out
of proportion to the new, larger church.
Captain Hibbert, now a Catholic convert,
paid for a new spire and tower, both of
which were constructed of Ancaster stone
with ashlar dressings of the same material;
the sculpture was mainly of Portland
stone. The interior work was carried out
by Parnell & Son.
John Hardman of Birmingham
made many of St Marie’s stained glass
windows, though two splendid windows
in the south aisle were made by Mayor of
Munich. In the south aisle chapel are the
archangel windows, installed in 1997 by
Aidan McRae Thomson. These depict the
vision of St Hubert, a hunter converted
to Christianity after seeing a vision of the
Holy Cross between a stag’s antlers. There
is a superb sculpture of St Hubert and the
stag outside the west door.
Other features of interest include the
wooden-beamed mediaeval style roof, the
fine organ loft overhanging the west end
of the church, the huge crucifix hanging
above the ornate marble altar and the
floor of the south aisle chapel, tiled in the
Arts and Crafts style of William Morris.
An extract from from"Rugby Town and City Memories".