Welcome to www.victoriankenilworth.co.uk,
the website of
Rookfield Publications and Robin D Leach
This website was originally set up to promote my fourth book "Victorian Kenilworth and its People"; it was extended on several occasions in the past, and will be again in the future with further articles and items of historical interest. It is now relaunched in a new format, special thanks to Sam Leach who has made this possible.
My new book, 'Kenilworth People and Places, Volume 1'
is now available through this website
and at 'Kenilworth Books' in Talisman Square.
Further details can be found on the book's own pages.
To buy a copy of 'Victorian Kenilworth & its People' for only £8.95,
please see the 'Latest News' page for 'People & Places, Vol 1'.
Local History articles
With its own menu are articles that I have researched, written for, and had published in, the
Kenilworth Weekly News. The most recent additions, in early February 2012, are two articles about 'Wilton House'.
One aspect of Kenilworth's history, the years of World War 2, is deserving of wider coverage and so I have created its own website.
Contributions to this are of course welcome.
www.Kenilworth-WW2.co.uk
I have a simple philosophy in that the history of Kenilworth belongs to us all, not just to the historians, and so an application to use information, or photographs, from this website or from my books is certain to be received favourably, but the courtesy of 'asking first' is requested, as is the recording of the source upon re-publication.
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“Robin Leach is to be congratulated on his book, Victorian Kenilworth and its People, now safely launched. Well worth the wait, this attractive and authoritative volume, the product of years of close research, is a splendid record of our town’s development, packed with information on families and buildings, enjoyable anecdotes and supporting illustrations.
No bookshelf should be without it”
(Kenilworth History and Archaeology Society newsletter, June 2006)
199 A4 pages, over 100 illustrations and maps, extensively indexed. RRP £12.95
Unless stated, all photographs on this website are taken by myself, with the exception of those shown on book covers.