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In December 2006, the Rugby World Cup was exhibited at the museum. The facility became the permanent physical home of the World Rugby Hall of Fame in November 2016. [8] However this was closed in 2021, due to financial pressures on the local council, and lower than expected visitor numbers. [9] [10] The building also houses the town's visitor ...
Rugby and its surrounding area had several brushes with some of the most important events in English history. "Guy Fawkes House" in Dunchurch. The Rugby area has associations with the Gunpowder Plot – On the eve of the plot on 5 November 1605, the plotters stayed at an inn in nearby Dunchurch to await news of the plot.
Local radio stations include BBC CWR, Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire (formally known as Free Radio Coventry and Warwickshire) and Capital Mid-Counties. The main local newspapers are the Rugby Advertiser, Rugby Observer, and Warwickshire Telegraph which is a localised sub-edition of the Coventry Telegraph.
1942 Rugby by-election; 1957 Warwick and Leamington by-election; 1963 Stratford by-election; 1965 Nuneaton by-election; 1968 Meriden by-election; 1995 North Warwickshire Borough Council election; 1998 Rugby Borough Council election; 1998 Stratford-on-Avon District Council election; 1999 North Warwickshire Borough Council election
The constituency was defined as consisting of the Urban District of Rugby, the Rural Districts of Farnborough, Monks Kirby, Rugby and Southam, together with the majority of Brailes Rural district (excepting only the two parishes of Ilmington and Stretton-on-Fosse which were in a detached part of Warwickshire).
Rugby Borough Council: Depicts Rugby's heritage, from canals to railways, to jet engines etc. [28] [29] More images: Life Saved: Rugby Fire Station, Corporation Street, Rugby: 2002 () Paul Margetts Sculpture: Mild steel: 5 metres (16 feet) high Rugby Borough Council
After civic leaders found that "The Lawn" was inadequate for their needs, they elected to construct a purpose-built facility. In December 1937 the borough council approved the design of a new town hall, made by Ernest Prestwich of J.C. Prestwich & Sons, [8] at an estimated cost of £90,478 (equivalent to £7,374,389.58 in 2023), in spite of objections as to cost. [9]
The museum is packed with much rugby memorabilia, including a Gilbert football of the kind used at Rugby School that was exhibited at the first World's Fair, [3] [4] [5] at the Great Exhibition in London and the original Richard Lindon (inventor of the rubber bladder for rugby balls) brass hand pump. Traditional handmade rugby balls are still ...