Tag: Upper Ladyes Hills

— Then & Now —

Mrs McEwan’s School – Then & Now

03/07/2020

This pair of then and now images evocatively captures the end of the era from before universal state education was available to all. The ‘then’ image shows the pupils of Mrs McEwan’s day school at Upper Ladyes Hills. The ‘now’ image was photographed in 2019, with the kind permission of the then owners of the… Read More Mrs McEwan’s School – Then & Now

— Then & Now —

Lower Ladyes Hills – Then & Now

23/09/2016

Rob Steward’s book The Inns and Roads of Kenilworth (Odiborne Press, 2000) records that the ancient brook side trackway that would later become Lower Ladyes Hills was improved by the Enclosure Award of 1756, where it is referred to the be description “One other footway leading from the North side of Odiborne Bridge along the…… Read More Lower Ladyes Hills – Then & Now