EPW061734 ENGLAND (1939). The Homewood Private Hotel on Kenilworth Road, Corporation Depot and environs, Royal Leamington Spa, 1939

Milverton Infants School. We were all in awe of Miss Barnes who could have doubled for Miss Jean brodie.

I can remember this as a brewery and used to pass it on my way to school, Milverton infants

The current location of Homewood is well off to the right of this image, it is now a care home. The MHA website does not indicate the site was changed in the 2010 rebuilding.

Binswood Avenue

Binswood Hall, Binswood Avenue - Grade 2 listed. In image- School. Leamington College for Boys. Former previous incarnation as a Girls' Convent School then Leamington College for Boys, a Boys Grammar School, which opened in 1848. This school merged with a secondary modern school, in 1977 to form a comprehensive. 1977 Three schools merged- Blackdown High School (Park Road site), Leamington College for Girls, a girls grammar school (Cloister Way site) and Leamington College for Boys (Binswood Hall site) on Binswood Avenue - this Binswood Hall site became the 6th Form Centre. In September 2009, a completely new school was opened on another site. This site today- due to be completed 2015, grade II-listed Binswood Hall is to become a 'retirement village' for over 55s featuring 90 apartments. Image is an architectural detail from the building, taken 2012.

Arnold Lodge School - founded in 1864. Originally a dame school kept by Mrs Worthington at 2 Lillington Place, the school was in 1864 taken over by a former Assistant Master at Leamington College, Mr Alfred Kirk. He was an admirer of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby School, and named the school Arnold Lodge School. The school will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2014

Kenilworth Road

Lillington Avenue