Historic Warwick Walks

25/05/2024

Did a tour yesterday for the Leamington History Group which you can book via Eventbrite if you want to come along to the next one. I do the Historic Leamington Spa walking tour on the third Tuesday and Friday of each month and I’m really interested in talking about Leamington’s history and the people who shaped both its past and its future. It was nice that the Vicar of All Saints Church came out to say hello to my group of 14 people! Even the weather cooperated for once!

15/03/2024

Here we go again. Start of the season. Why not join me on one of my free tours of Historic Leamington on the third Tuesday and Friday of each month from April thru October. Book your place on Eventbrite. Hope to see you there!

Join us for a stroll through Leamington's past on our History Walking Tour - uncovering the town's fascinating stories and hidden gems!

19/02/2024

Out and about learning more about the street art scene with Tim aka Lord Numb and owner of Brink Gallery in Leamington Spa who has created and curated a whole area of street art as part of Creative Leamington. The Leamington History Group will be offering some street art tours during this summer. Look out for them and make sure you take part, there’s some great stuff out there. I will be one of the guides, come walk with me!

Historic walking tours of Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa by appointment only.

16/12/2023

Today was my last tour of 2023 with 18 people on a chilly, dry day taking my Historic Warwick Walk. Great group and l look forward to many more tours in 2024. In the meantime, l wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and every good wish for 2024.

20/10/2023

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My free tour of Royal Leamington Spa on this very rainy day resulted in a wonderful piece of gossip which I am sharing with you. When the Royal Pump Rooms closed in 1989 and before it reopened as a cultural complex in 1999, Mick Jagger used the empty men’s swimming pool (or swimming hall as it was known) to film a music video ‘Sweet Thing.’ The pool was transformed to become today’s Leamington Library but the glass pool roof remains as a “sweet” reminder of days past.

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21/07/2023

Every third Friday of the month through the summer I give a free tour of Leamington Spa for the Leamington History Group. It leaves at 10:30 from inside the Leamington Visitor Centre located at the Pump Rooms and is a romp through history sprinkled with tales of some the characters who left their mark on our beautiful spa town. Todays tour was great fun, why not join me in August?

24/04/2023

On my Historic Warwick Walks tours, l start at the wonderful plaque celebrating the birth of Warwick and the deeds of Aethelflaed in 914AD. Don’t worry if you can’t find my website, it’s being revamped. You can always check me out on Trip Advisor, yes l got a Travellers Choice award for this year too. Hope to meet you soon!

20/04/2023

On the third Friday of every month from now until the end of October, I am giving a free tour of Historic Royal Leamington Spa as a volunteer for the Leamington History Group. Leaving at 10:30am from the Leamington Visitor Centre located in the Royal Pump Rooms, the first tour is tomorrow. Short notice, but do join me if you are free.

11/12/2022

This year has been a big one for Historic Warwick Walks. A record number of visitors taking my tours and a few locals too. So, I would like to wish all my friends, past tour takers, tour takers to be, and FaceBook follows all the very best for the coming festive season and safe and happy travels in 2023.
Photo credit Mike Baker

17/08/2022

Here l am a little the worse for wear after a lovely evening tour of Historic Warwick for a group of fun ladies. Very enjoyable and even the weather behaved by staying dry. Yes folks, our drought appears to be over!

04/07/2022

Nice to have another annual Trip Advisor Travellers Choice Award for 2022. Come join me on a walk of either Historic Warwick or Royal Leamington Spa. Message me for details. Tours are on a day and time to suit you. A great way to learn more about the history, the buildings and the people.

19/12/2021

Wishing all my clients and FB followers of Historic Warwick Walks an extra safe and happy Christmas and every good wish for 2022.

31/10/2021

13/09/2021

Probably should have said that Trip Advisor gave me an award. Rather nice. With everyone on “staycations” tours of Historic Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa are popular. Nice to meet people from all over the British Isles who are exploring their own country this year.

17/05/2021

John Cundall (1830-1889) was a Leamington boy made good. An architect of note for 25 years in Leamington, he is best known for designing the “new”Town Hall. A wonderful flight of gothic fantasy which opened in 1884 and was the second and much grander Town Hall for the town. Cundall also designed the Hitchman Memorial Fountain and the Edward Willes memorial in Jephson Gardens, plus a large number of churches, bridges and other buildings many of which still stand today. In the town of Warwick, Cundall designed the main building of Warwick School which opened in 1879, no 5 High Street, most recently a branch of Barclays Bank, and a novel and interesting religious building on a wedge of land at the bottom of Gerrard Street. Learn more about Leamington and Warwick on my historic walking tours.

11/05/2021

In 1797 an Act passed by the English Parliament declared that a tax would be collected on every clock in the realm. As a result, many private clock owners either hid or got rid of their clocks. But how to tell the time? Taverns and pubs became the preferred location with clocks known as Tavern Clocks being hung in every pub and tavern throughout the British Isles. Landlords were happy to pay the tax as people coming to see what time it was would of course linger for a drink. See a tavern clock on my Historic Warwick Walk.

25/04/2021

Soft opening of my walking tours of Historic Warwick and Historic Royal Leamington Spa. First tour yesterday and lovely to be able to guide again. Here’s a little taste of my Leamington tour. This building used to be a Catholic Church. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who became Napoleon III lived in Royal Leamington Spa in 1838/39 and worshipped here while in exile from France. The church, built in 1828 was financed by Major Patrick Bisshopp who served as a Commander at the Battle of Waterloo. It was the first modern Catholic Church in Leamington.