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.

   

'Kenilworth People and Places, Volume 2'...

...an appeal !!

Now in the process of preparation for publication by the end of October is the second part of the 'People and Places' trilogy. 

Amongst the subjects included this time is the history of the first 25 years of Kenilworth's Carnival and this appeal is for photographs of Carnival Queens up to and including 1951.

Please use the link to the left 'Carnival Queens' in the 'People & Places' menu for more details.

 

I am also trying to find photographs of several now-demolished houses:

'Elmdene', 'The Hermitage', 'Woodlands', 'Thornby House', and of 'Thickthorn'.

 

Finally, an unusual subject, I shall be recording various apsects of pre- WW2 housing in Kenilworth and need photographs of pre-war council houses, not neccessarily pre-war photographs but preferably before later 20th century modifications and improvements.

Can you help?

Please contact me via the email address below if you can

 

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 'Kenilworth People and Places, Volume 1'

is available through this website

 and at 'Kenilworth Books' in Talisman Square.

 Further details can be found on the book's own pages. (see left)    

 To buy a copy of 'Victorian Kenilworth & its People' for only £8.95,

please see the 'Latest News' page for 'People & Places, Vol 1'.

 

Presentations 

I am regularly invited by local societies and groups to give presentations on various aspects of Kenilworth's history. These are not just slide shows but illustrated talks using old as well as new photographs, maps and documents.

I am currently (2nd March 2013) booked for four talks in the coming year.

Details can be found on the 'Talks' and 'Latest News' pages on the 'Main Menu'

 

Local History articles

With its own menu are some of the 60 or so articles that I have researched, written for, and had published in, the Kenilworth Weekly News. 

  

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.  

 

Please contact me at 

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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.