An interesting little resource about Nuneaton and Nth Warwks

Coton Arches is one of my favourite landmarks, the reason being it is almost a mirror image of Spon End. For more than a century coal trains like this trundled between the two day and night:

I would swear blind this was Spon End if I didn't already know it was Coton Arches:



The similarity here is incredible!

Talk about life in Nuneaton 100 years ago at Bedworth Society

LIFE in Nuneaton 100 years ago will be the theme of a talk at a meeting of the Bedworth Society on Monday.

David Sidwell will be giving a talk about the book he has edited from the diaries of his grandfather George Leonard Clarke, The Old Rebel: A Life in Nuneaton, 1885-1960,

The talk is at 7.30pm at the Old Meeting Church, off Leicester Street.