William and Henry Enoch were brothers who both had businesses in Warwick as watchmakers and jewellers in the early Victorian period. William was the younger brother and had a shop ...
Leonard Baldwin was the hotel keeper at the Warwick Arms Hotel in the second half of the Victorian era. He lived there for nearly 40 years, with his wife Louisa ...
Henry Chadband has been described as a butcher, a pastry chef, a family baker, and a confectioner. Like many businesses in the Victorian period, his did several different things or ...
Walter and his wife Rhonda probably ran one of Warwick’s first fish and chip shops. In the Directories of Warwick from the 1910s and 20s, Walter is listed as a ...
James Mansell inherited his business from his father and mother in 1862. He supplied fruit, seeds, plants and vegetables to the people of Warwick and to Warwick Castle. James sold ...
James William Foxwell made, sold and repaired carriages and carts. Records show James’s business did work for Warwick Castle, with the Earl of Warwick even having his own account book. ...
In 1883 James Styles opened a furnisher and ironmongers shop at 7 Smith Street. He sold furniture and metal goods, like nails and tools. This was not the first, or ...
John Walkington Newcomen was a tea dealer and grocer. As his business grew, he moved his family to different addresses around Warwick. They settled at 17 Market Place where they ...
William Clarke ran a bakery and confectioners , selling bread and cakes. One unusual customer of the bakery was an elephant owned by Daisy, Countess of Warwick. A receipt from ...
The Mann Family ran an ironmongers in Warwick for several generations. Thomas Mann took over the shop from his mother, Elizabeth, in the middle of the Victorian period. It was ...
John Clarke’s business was making furniture and hanging wallpaper in the homes of Warwick and at Warwick Castle too. By the late Victorian period John was employing six men and ...
My mother lived the majority of her life in Sambourne at 74 Sambourne Lane, where my father also lived for 43 years. My mother’s family had roots in Sambourne as ...
