Tannery Cottages – Then & Now
Tannery Cottages - Then & Now This wonderful colour image seems somehow tangibly recent and yet it captures a long vanished snippet of old Warwick Road, shortly before its demolition.…
Bear & Ragged Staff – Then & Now
Bear & Ragged Staff - Then & Now This undated postcard shows a view of Warwick Road looking north. The image is taken from beside the Bear & Ragged Staff…
12 – 16 Warwick Road – Then & Now
This ‘then’ view shows the east side of Warwick Road between Station Road and Talisman Square, once the site of The Tannery. Most interestingly in this view, is a glimpse…
The Tannery Pits – Then & Now
This week’s Then & Now comes courtesy of prolific local historian Robin Leach, whose recent research on Kenilworth’s involvement with animal skin processing, in particular on two major sites in the…
Midland Bank, Warwick Road – Then & Now
The pictures above show a much modified Edwardian terrace, now numbered 44 - 46 The Square, Kenilworth. The ‘Then’ picture was taken from a Kenilworth Weekly News article published in…
E.H. Watts VG Stores – Then & Now
In previous Then & Now comparisons we saw how the old fashioned terraced shop belonging to W.H Watts at number 30 Warwick Road was converted to a modern supermarket by…
W.R. Barnett and W.H. Watts – Then & Now
This row of Warwick Road properties has undergone so many alterations and demolitions that there aren’t very many clues as to which are their modern day counterparts. However, from similar…
32 Warwick Road Demolition – Then & Now
This Then & Now image shows the demolition the frontage of what is now numbered 30 Warwick Road. As We will see in subsequent Then & Nows, this work was…
Boots the Chemist, Warwick Road – Then & Now
This Then & Now pairing shows Boots the Chemist on Warwick Road, some time in the early 1960s and its modern day equivalent location. This grand old double bay windowed…
Tannery Gates, Warwick Road, early 1965 – Then & Now
Pictures of the gates of the old Tannery on Warwick Road, where Talisman Square now stands, are relatively few and far between. This one was taken in early 1965 by…
Randall Road Junction, 1971 – Then & Now
Here we see yet another Then & Now pairing which illustrates the scale of the demolition along Warwick Road in the 1960s and 1970s. This scene shows a row of…
Post Office, 1969 – Then & Now
This then & now pair shows the old Post Office building on the corner of Barrow Road and Warwick Road in 1969, shortly before its demolition, taken by John Drew…
King’s Head Sign, Then & Now
For a number of years the location of the former King’s Head pub, known to have existed from licensing records, was lost to us. All that changed with an intriguing…
151, 153 & 155 Warwick Road, 1964 – Then & Now
The narrative of this then & now post will be familiar to regular readers. This mid 1960s photo shows a row of brick cottages that comprised 151, 153 & 155…
NatWest Bank – Then & Now
This week’s Then & Now comparison is provided by two local guest contributors who worked in Kenilworth’s NatWest Bank branch before it closed on the 13th of June 2017. The…
86 Warwick Road – Then & Now
Had it not been for the fact that the mid-1960s ‘then’ photo above was labelled as ‘86 Warwick Road’, it would have been very difficult to identify the ‘now’ equivalent.…
17 – 23 Warwick Road, 1964 – Then & Now
If you were to gather together all of the timber framed and thatched properties demolished in Kenilworth from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s you could build yourself a very pretty,…
The Square from Warwick Road – Then & Now
This scene of Warwick Road and The Square is much like many other postcards of the scene from the era. It does however show The Square before the Clock Tower…
Randall Road Junction – Then & Now
This Then & Now pairing shows the junction of Randall Road and Warwick Road, taken from the niche where the estate agents opposite is a little bit set back from…
Poundland – Then & Now
The chipping away of pre-20th Century buildings on Warwick Road during the last 75 years has left us with numerous Then & Now examples such as this one. Listed building…
Building of Talisman Square – Then & Now
This remarkable street scene, dated 28th November 1965, shows the building of Talisman Square in progress. In the ‘then’ photo, both the Almshouses that used to front onto Warwick Road…
Warwick Road Aerial Photo – Then & Now
This fascinating aerial view of Kenilworth is dated May 1920, and was obtained from the absorbing Britain From Above website. To the modern eye this scene is notable for the…
The King’s Arms & Castle – Then & Now
The King's Arms & Castle, 1960s. According to Rob Steward's “The Inns and Roads of Kenilworth” (Odibourne Press, 2000) the “King's Arms Inn” was the venue of the Abbey Courts…
The Square, Early 1960s – Then & Now
The Square, early 1960s. Where the roundabout now stands once stood an elegant building with grand bay-windows, which can be seen on many a postcard of the Square from before the turn…
Almshouses, Warwick Road – Then & Now
These former almshouses on Warwick Road were demolished in 1963 to make way for the Talisman Square development on the site of the adjoining former tannery. Next door was Olive…
From the Archives: Last Night at ‘The Globe’
The moving story below was first published in the 2003 / 2004 edition of the Society's Kenilworth History publication, written by Roy Stanley. It tells the story of the tragic events…