Historic Warwick

On Sunday 11th August 2024 I visited Warwick expecting to enjoy the annual 'Retro Warwick' Classic Car & Bike Show in the Market square. As it turned out I had got the date wrong, I was a week early (a long story 🙁). I had taken my camera to take photographs of rare cars, so, not to miss the moment on a lovely sunny day, I started taking photos of some of Warwick's many historic buildings. 

When you live in the environs of Britain's historic towns you tend to take the historic buildings for granted, they just become part of the familiar background; it's only on moments like these that their true splendour and historic significance and brought into focus. We are blessed, thank you to all those who have gone before us for creating these building in the first place  and then maintaining them.

Here are just a few -

WARWICK'S MILLENNIUM + PLAQUE

ST. MARY'S COLLEGIATE CHURCH

ONE OF SEVERAL TIMBERED HOUSES IN JURY/HIGH STREET

EAST GATE

GRADE II LISTED HOUSE JURY ST.

STATUE OF JUSTICE OLD LAW COURT JURY ST.

THOMAS OKEN TEA ROOMS

THE LORD LEYCESTER'S HOSPITALE AT WESTGATE

Warwick Castle is one of the U.K.'s most popular historic tourist attractions, many thousands visit it every week, particularly in the school holidays. However, few of those visitors take a stroll around the streets of Warwick to see the many historic wonders there. If you are one of those Castle visitors perhaps this blog will encourage you to "linger awhile" in Warwickshire's historic County Town.

Nick