Early pictures of Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, one of England's most attractive and historic Regency towns. Leamington History Group.

1. Produced by the Leamington Memories Group of LEAP

3. 1809

4. All Saints’ parish church
as it appeared between 1816 &1825

5. All Saints’ Church about 1826
showing the new tower and spire built in 1825

6. At some time
before the First
World War a
large new tower
was added to the
South-West and
the main door
was moved.

7. St Mary’s in the Fields - 1845
daughter church of All Saints

8. Copps’s Royal Hotel was on the corner
of High Street and Clemens Street

9. St Mary’s Church Sunday School - 1929

10. All Saints 1900
Note the horse-drawn ‘bus

11. Well House outside All Saints Church, 1930s

12. Note the Parthenon on the right with colonnades
and Regenesis at the end of the street
1820
Bath St looking south, facing Clemens St, 1820

13. Old Post Office
on the right
Bath Street 1845 – from the corner of High Street

14. Bath St looking towards the Town Hall

15. Mr FW Francis founded E Francis & Sons Ltd
in 1840 at 38 Bath St.
He had 3 assistants and a housekeeper

16. An early picture of the Pump Rooms

17. The Pump Rooms,
Leamington Spa

19. The first electric tram
outside the Town Hall

22. Linden Avenue beside the Pump Rooms

23. Linden Walk - 1940’s

24. Pump Rooms café

25. Tea in the Pump Rooms

26. Bobby’s Restaurant

27. .
Swimming Bath opened by Mayor John Fell, 1890

28. Pump Room Gardens
Listening to the Band - 1900

29. The spire atop St Peter’s Church Tower
was removed early 1950’s, and the tower
height reduced for safety reasons
Listening to the Band

30. Talbot Inn outing
to the White Lion at Radford Semele - 1925

31. An afternoon trip with the Midland Red
to the Cotswolds - 5 shillings [5/-] in the early 1930s

32. Archery
Jephson Gardens – 1920s

33. Tennis Tournament
Jephson Gardens 1920s

34. Sunday School Festival
Jephson Garden Pavilion 1910

35. Suspensio
n
Bridge
Jephson
Gardens

36. Floods at York Bridge 1932

37. Statue of Queen Victoria - 1932

38. Coronation Day – George V

39. An early view up the Parade - Regent Hotel on right

40. ON THE MARCH: Elephants on the Parade,
turn of the century,
to the fascination of passers-by

41. Looking
up the
Parade
1920’s

42. Dormer Place
The National Tailoring Company – a very upmarket
tailors in the early 1900’s. Later to become a branch
of Natwest bank

43. Regent Hotel and Lower Parade 1928
1928

44. Theatre Royal
Regent Grove
1932

45. The Warneford Hospital on the Radford Road
built in 1832

46. Warneford Hospital

47. Police Station

48. Leaving the Police
Headquarters
1937

50. Shrubland Street School

51. Clapham Terrace infants, 1917
Miss Williams
Miss Turner
BLOW!
Each infant had a hanky or piece of rag pinned on their
jumper ready for the count-down:
One -- Two -- THREE
Morning Nose drill!

52. Clapham Terrace Junior boys’ class
at the turn of the century

53. Clapham Terrace train outing to London, 1937

54. Frank Whittle’s father owned the
Leamington Valve and Piston
Company, just off Regent Place.
He attended Leamington Boys
College and gained his
engineering experience in his
father’s workshop. This is where
he started to design his dream
machine.

55. Covent Garden - early 20th century

56. Delivery by Horse & Cart

57. George Cashmore and his handcart delivering
bread for the family business in the early 1900’s

58. Mr Gascoyne outside his shop
in the High Street

59. Fish Shop – Tavistock Street, 1938

60. Grandad’s
prize-winning
onions
~1910
Grown on St Mary’s Allotments

61. Heart of
England Oak,
marking the
centre of
England.

62. The War Effort
War Weapons Week – early 1940’s

63. This slideshow was made by the LEAP
group with a grant from Awards for All.
Our special thanks go to the late Bill
Gibbons for giving us permission to use
many of his pictures.