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WEDDINGTON CASTLE - An Online History


PICTURE GALLERY IX - Nuneaton Town

This section features images of Nuneaton Town, of which Weddington Village was later to become a district, during the time of the Castle. Nuneaton was - and is - the primary town in the vicinity of Weddington and has been highly influential on the development of the village and of the Castle. The owners and residents of the Castle would have had close links with Nuneaton.


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Nuneaton Market Place

From a 19th century drawing

Nuneaton Market Place in 1881

Taken from 'The Graphic Illustrated' 1881

King Edward VI Grammar School (now a 6th Form College)

Pictured in 1903

Nuneaton Market Place

Early postcard

Nuneaton Market Place

Postcard from 1904

Bond Gate theatre 1904

Nuneaton Market Place

Colourised postcard dated 1906

Bridge Street c1908

Nuneaton Market Place

Original photograph from pre-1909

A painting of Nuneaton Market Place

By artist Patty Townsend (1845 - 1907)

An Edwardian postcard of the Council Buildings, Queens Road, Nuneaton

Postally used in 1910

The Elms, George Eliot's former school

Postcard circa 1908

St Nicholas Church, Nuneaton

Early postcard

Cottage in Old Nuneaton

Early postcard c1910, entitled "A Bit of Old Nuneaton"

Bridge Street

c.1911

Early multiview postcard of Nuneaton

Church Street, Nuneaton. 1913

Nuneaton Borough Band. Army Recruitment Poster

1914

Abbey Street, Nuneaton

Pictured pre-1918

Abbey Street, Nuneaton 1918

St Mary's Abbey Church and Ruins

Pre-1925 colour postcard

Early photograph of Nuneaton Town centre

Photograph of a Nuneaton girl, pictured with a Jack Russell, c 1910-1915

This unknown individual gives a good indication of the formal garments worn by Nuneaton's female residents in the early C20th. (Picture marked "L. Chettle, 88 Queen's Road": this was a local photographer).

Edwardian postcard

Featuring an interesting (!) limerick about Nuneaton ladies

 

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