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A range of Documents, Archives and Miscellaneous Resources to Local and Family Historians on a wide range of subjects covering the North Warwickshire and West Leicestershire areas.

GENERAL INFORMATION. Scroll down for an alphabetical list.


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Alan Cook's Millenium History of Nuneaton
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Atherstone Official Guide 1922
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Attleborough Hamlet 

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Nuneaton and Chilvers Coton Public Health Act 1849.doc
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Bulkington Sanitation Report
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Haunchwood House, Stockingford (demolished c. 1920) - temporary file

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Haunchwood House in the open fields of Nuneaton Common in 1888(Courtesy of the Ordnance Survey)
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By 1923 the old mansion had been swept away and a housing estate built on the fields. Randle Road cut through the site of the house. (courtesy of the Ordnance Survey)
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Randle Road now covers the site of Haunchwood House, but in this map dated 1921 the newly demolished house shows its imprint. Then the houses in Randle Road will be built all over it.
The story of Haunchwood House to date (to be updated soon)
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William McTaggart Dorsey, whose family owned Haunchwood House, and he was born there.
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The structure of Haunchwood House itself stood approximately between the blue van on the left and the grey van in Randle Road. One of the houses on the left has an original apple tree from the gardens of Haunchwood House in the garden. (Peter Lee)

Nuneaton Hall, demolished 1780-1810? 

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The site of Nuneaton Hall which had formerly been the Habbit of Nuneaton Abbey. It was granted with the town and Abbey grounds to Sir Marmaduke Constable and descended through the lordship of the Manor to the Stratford family who were extremely wealthy land owners and were acquiring property right across North Warwickshire. They purchased Horestone Grange then Nuneaton Hall (which was used as a dower house for the family, and this was followed by Bretts Hall, Ansley Hall Blyth Hall at Shustoke and then Merevale Hall where their descendants the Stratford-Dugdales, still live today. Nuneaton Hall fell into dilapidation by the 18th century and is believed to have been demolished c. 1800. The exact date is not recorded although it is said to have been within the memory of old folks who lived in the town in the 1870's. The roadway known as Stratford Street was built on land called "Hall Gardens". No illustrations of the old property is known to exist so the location is only conjectural.
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Sir Marmaduke Constable's residence from the Constable survey of 1543/4. Sir Marmaduke recorded all the property in the town whose freehold he was assigned by Henry VIII which had formerly belonged to the Nuneaton Abbey, and the premises they occupied. As you can see Sir Marmaduke occupied the Habbytt - or Nuneaton Hall - once the resident of the Abbott, or Prior of the Abbey, all within the outer precinct of the Abbey Church. (Ted Veasey)

Stockingford Colliery, known to generations of old colliers as "Drybread" pit. 

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Plans from the Stockingford Colliery Sale Document above.
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Tuttle Hill Farm Conveyance 1845 (Mark Hood)
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THE NUNEATON DIARY   Coming soon - The Nuneaton Diary kept by an old townsman - John Astley between the years 1810-1845 and serialised in the Nuneaton Observer in the 1870's. Full of town gossip from the early 19th century. Here is a page from the original document.

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Baddesley Ensor and Baxterley

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Baxterley Mill

Bedworth

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Residents of Newtown Road, Bedworth 1883.
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Abbey Green
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The Bottom of Abbey Street in the 1890's
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Ansley Church and Parish
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Attleborough Pubs & Beer Houses
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Attleborough Presentation of the Plate
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Attleborough in the year 1878 by Alfred Lester Scrivener
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Attleborough Residents buried in St. Nicholas Parish Church, Nuneaton 1813-1851.
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The Attleborough Walking Tour by the Nuneaton Local History Group
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Baddesley Colliery Pit Disaster List of Men Killed and Injured
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Documents relevant to the Baraclough family Nuneaton. Printers and Stationers.
Bedworth Street Directory 1912
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Bedworth 1922/23 Street Directory
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Bedworth Coal & Colliers by Alfred Lester Scrivener
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Bedworth Goods Shed c. 1910
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Bermuda to Paradise - a Nuneaton Local History Group Walking Tour.
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Bermuda Village street directory. Spennels directory 1912/13. (NLHG Archive)
The Castle Hotel, Market Place, Nuneaton
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A history of the Chase Hotel and the Knox family
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Haunchwood House, Stockingford
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Haunted Nuneaton
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Chilvers Coton Baptisms 1878-1902
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A Chilvers Coton Time Line
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A Coton Photographer
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Deacon - The Saddler in Nuneaton Market Place
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Events in Nuneaton 1900-1999
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Fish & Chip Shops in Nuneaton by Victor Welland
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Hall West & Co.
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George Helps of Nuneaton Gas Works
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The Mallabones of the "Jolly Colliers" Chilvers Coton
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The Midland Red in Repose at the Coton Road Garage
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The Motorcycle Manufacturers of Nuneaton
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Nuneaton Brewery
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Nuneaton & Bedworth Brickyards
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Nuneaton 1896 Street Directory
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Nuneaton Street Directory 1938-1939
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Nuneaton - The Unwritten History
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The History of Queens Road
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The History of Riversley Park
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Nuneaton the Churchyard
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Rocks, Fossils & Minerals of the Nuneaton Area.
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Sterling Metals - A Timeline
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Toppers Fish Restaurant
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The Taste of Old Nuneaton
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Wood Brothers
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The Yards and Jitties of Old Nuneaton Town
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