1963 – July – Kenilworth Magistrates Court

Nabbed Slabs From Showground

Police Barely Caught Them

Priest Wasn’t Paying Enough Attention

Two Naughty Boys ‘Knocked Off’ Bicycles

Dream Rider

Arrested as They Rested

2021 – 6th May – Kenilworth Town Council – By Election

St John’s Ward

LIB-DEMS LOSE SEAT TO TORIES

Kenilworth Town Councillors (17 seats)

8 Green Party (P. Jones, A. Firth, T. Drew, A. Kennedy, A. Dearing, J. Dearing, P. Austin, P. Barry)

6 Liberal Democrats (K. Dickson, R. Dickson, G. Hyde, S. Cooke, A. Chalmers, A. Milton)

3 Conservative Party (J. Cooke, M. Coker, R. Spencer)

1963 – October – Kenilworth Magisrates Court

Helped Herself at the Self-Service Store

The court was told, that whilst shopping at the Fine Fare self-service supermarket in Warwick Road, a 58 year-old Kenilworth spinster stole a pound of butter and a packet of gammon. Housekeeper, Lilly Watts of Stoneleigh Ave, pleaded guilty to the thefts. Remarking about supermarkets, Inspector Albert Cox said: “These are places which display their goods to all and sundry and there is a temptation for people just to take stuff”.

He said that Watts was shopping in the supermarket on September 3rd and was putting several articules into a basket. But the manager saw her slip the butter and gammon into her own basket. He told the cashier about the incident. After paying for the goods in the store’s basket, the cashier asked if she had anything else on her. Watts said she had not. But when the manager approached her, Watts admitted the thefts. She was fined £2.

Cigs Cost Her Nearly £1 Each

At court, a 48 year-old Kenilworth woman alleged to be earning £9-a-week, stole 30 cigarettes from self-service supermarket, Fine Fare in Warwick Road. Winifred Ellen Bucknill of Mortimer Road, pleaded guilty to the theft.

Inspector Albert Cox said that Bucknill was shopping in the supermarket at around 12.45p.m. on October 8th. The store’s assistant manager saw her take the cigarettes and place them in a basket provided by the store. When she went to pay she did not declare them to the cashier. When the manager questioned her she said she had not taken them. But later, when the police were called, she admitted all.

The bench was told she had previous convictions of a similar nature. The court showed no sympathy and fined her a right packet – £25.

Not So Clever ‘Litter Lout’

Norman Parkinson of Coventry was not so clever as he ought to have been when he set out to dump a pile of junk which included, three tins cans, a pedal operated bin, cardboard boxes, paper, bricks, a cement bag, a car battery and a box of rubbish. The place he chose to convert into a wayside tip was a country lane, Cryfield Grange Road, which connects the Coventry Road to Crackley Lane.

To the defendant’s dismay, he was traced by the painstaking work of a policeman, who discovered amongst the junk a bit of paper bearing his name and address. Which proved very useful.

The magistrates dumped a fine of £5 on Mr. Parkinson for ‘depositing litter’.

2023 – 4th May – Warwick District Council Elections – Kenilworth

Abbey & Arden Ward (3 seats)

Registered Voters 8,411

Ballot Papers Issued 3.322 (14 spoilt papers)

Votes Cast 9,477 (39.5% turnout)

Park Hill Ward (3 seats)

Registered Voters 7,767

Ballot Papers Issued 3,232 (9 spoilt papers)

Votes Cast 9,184 (41.6% turnout)

St. John’s Ward (3 seats)

*denotes retiring councillors

Registered Voters 7,730

Ballot Papers Issued 3,586 (20 spoilt papers)

Votes Cast 9,755 (46.4% turnout)

ALL CHANGE AT THE DISTRICT

The Greens are Growing

Voter ID Arrives – with success

Kenilworth District Councillors

5 Green Party (D. Armstrong, K. Aizlewood, A. Kennedy, L. Cron, L. Williams)

3 Liberal Democrats (K. Dickson, R. Dickson, A. Milton)

1 Conservative Party (R. Hales)

2023 – 4th May – Kenilworth Town Council – Elections

Abbey Ward (2 seats)

St John’s Ward (4 seats)

Park Hill Ward (4 seats)

Dalehouse Ward (4 seats)

Borrowell Ward (3 seats)

GLORIOUS GREENS MARCH ON – LIB-DEMS CONSOLIDATE

Green Councillors – Peter Jones, Mark Stevens and Zoe Leventhal

Same Again For Liberal Democrats

No Tories Left on Council

Voter ID Arrives

Polling Stations

Polling Station in the car park of the Queen & Castle pub (Abbey Ward)

Fancy an Election Job?

Kenilworth Town Councillors (17 seats)

Warwick District Council ‘Chairman’

1973/4
Christopher Webster
1974/5
Kenneth Rawnsley
1975/6
James Molineux Savory
1976/7
Marshall Edward Kerry
1977/8
Bernard Kirton
1978/9
Norman Raymond Parker
1979/80
Thomas Leo Howlett
1980/1
Stanley William Birch
1981/2
William Henry Wozencroft
1982/3
John Hulstone Higgins
1983/4
Peter Graham Barton
1984/5
Michael Francis Coker
1985/6
Agnes Lavinia Leddy
1986/7
John Allan Morley
1987/8
John Stanley Hammond
1988/9
Spencer Charlton Harrison
1989/90
Valerie Margaret Davis
1990/1
Gerald Brian Guest
1991/2
Robert James Coombes
1992/3
Clifford Samuel Clever
1993/4
William Boxley
1994/5
Peter John Byrd
1995/6
Robert Wooller
1996/7
Joyce Esther Evans
1997/8
Margaret Ann Begg
1998/9
George Darmody
1999/00
Josephine Compton
2000/1
Royston Short
2001/2
Haydn Thomas
2002/3
Balvinder Singh Gill
2003/4
Michael Doody
2004/5
Christopher Davis
2005/6
Dave Shilton
2006/7
Bill Evans
2007/8
Les Cabron
2008/9
Judy Falp
2009/10
Norman Pratt
2010/11
Bertie Mackay
2011/12
Felicity Bunker
2012/13
Michael Kinson OBE
2013/14
Richard Davies
2014/15
Clare Sawdon
2015/16
Michael Doody
2016/17
Jane Knight
2017/18
Alan Boad
2018/19
Stephen Cross
2019/20
George Illingworth
2020/21
Martyn Ashford
2021/22
Neale Murphy
2022/23
Mini Kaur Mangat
2023/24
Sidney Syson
2024/25
Robert Margrave

Kenilworth’s – George Illingworth

Chair – 2019-2020

Buyrite – The End of ‘Aladin’s Cave’ – Arthur Harrison – 2023

Sent from (not too) Coventry

Shop to be Re-developed by Landlords

One of Buyrite’s shops in Talisman Square 2006/7

Wilco Did Buyrite a Favour

‘Wilco’s arrival did Arthur a favour

Kenilworth Vibes Goes ‘Viral’

Trading was extended by a month
Bye-Bye Arthur

Shutters Go Up

Empty (except for the till which they couldn’t sell)

May 2023

Boarded up – July 2023

Tony Dilworth’s – Ghostly Encounters – 40 years Apart

‘The Knight on the Tiltyard’

Finham brook at the ford. Where many trout were caught, especially during floods periods

‘The Saintlowe Tower Lady’

Saintlowe Tower – Built by John O’Gaunt in the late 1370s
The Great Hall
The basement of the Great Hall, Saintlowe tower is in the right-hand corner
View of Echo Meadows from Saintlowe Tower – Once part of the Great Mere

Tony Dilworth 2024

Pebbles In The ‘Pool of Life’ – Cyril Hobbins – In His Own Words

Photo courtesy of Cyril Hobbins

A Change of Career

Drawings by Cyril Hobbins

Charlecote House, near Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

Out in the Streets

Out in the Streets – Cyril in Kenilworth town centre

https://www.ephotozine.com/user/hobbo-150445

Disney – An Enduring Memory

The Famous Hollywood Sign – Photo by Tony Dilworth
Cyril in his Typical Toy-Making Outfit – leather apron, neckerchief and Victorian stripy shirt – pictured with John Lasseter.
Photo courtesy of Sami Matias

Cyril Hobbins 2023