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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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Rugby in Warwickshire. Rugby ... More images ...
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]
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).
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.
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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 ...