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unusual facts about King Edward VI College, Nuneaton


Norman Painting

He was educated at Leamington College and King Edward VI School, Nuneaton, but left school aged 15 to work in a library.


Attleborough, Warwickshire

Nuneaton RFC (informally known as "The Nuns") and Nuneaton Town FC (formerly known as Nuneaton Borough and nicknamed "The Boro'") play their home matches at Liberty Way, just off the Attleborough Fields Industrial Estate.

Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area

There is a very small amount of green belt between the Coventry/Bedworth Urban Area and the Nuneaton Urban Area in the north, however with the development of industrial and retail units in south Nuneaton, the two conurbations are virtually connected, and also between Coventry and Kenilworth.

Kevin Wilkin

Later spells followed with Rushden and Diamonds, Nuneaton Borough, Cambridge City and Grantham Town, before returning to Nuneaton as player/assistant manager to Roger Ashby in 2004.

Les Huckfield

In 1967, at the age of 24, Huckfield was elected to parliament for the constituency of Nuneaton in a by-election following the resignation of Frank Cousins, becoming the youngest MP (the "Baby of the House").

Miriam O'Reilly

In April 2013 O'Reilly revealed that she was putting her name forward to be selected as the Labour Party candidate for the Nuneaton seat at the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

Murder of Carol Wardell

On the morning of Monday, 12 September 1994 her body was discovered by a passing motorist on a grass verge on Weddington Road (the A444) just north of Nuneaton in the Warwickshire countryside.

Nuneaton railway station

Nuneaton was historically served by several other stations, Including Abbey Street station, Stockingford station, and Chilvers Coton station.

It was known, during the period (1924–1969) as Nuneaton Trent Valley, to distinguish it from the now closed Nuneaton Abbey Street station, but it is now Nuneaton's only railway station, though many local people still refer to it as Trent Valley.

Ronald Ridout

From 1939 to 1950 he worked as a teacher at schools in Bolton, Luton, Nuneaton, Portsmouth, Shrewsbury and Woking.

Whitestone

Whitestone, Warwickshire, a suburb of Nuneaton, a town in the United Kingdom

William Greenway

William Whitmore Greenway (5 March 1798, Nuneaton, Warwickshire – 28 May 1868, Mount Bosworth, Leicestershire) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1820 for Cambridge University Cricket Club, making 3 known appearances.


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