John Phillpott

The way we were... the Advertiser offices in Albert Street, Rugby.

Home The Rolling Stones, Il Cadore coffee bar - and 20 pints in the London House: For...

The graveyard at Holy Trinity, Churchover... last resting place of ‘Uncle’ George, the cow pat king.

People Former Advertiser reporter remembers the lost rural sports that enlivened many a...

People Avon calling! Former Advertiser reporter celebrates a certain waterway that runs...

People Former Advertiser reporter laments the passing of the 'Saturday job'

People Former Advertiser reporter tracks down local man who made rock 'n' roll history

People 'There's an icy wind blowing down Chapel Street' - former Advertiser reporter re...

People Former Advertiser reporter recalls the glorious heydays of some of Rugby's best-...

People Former Advertiser reporter remembers the famous son of Warwickshire whose genius...

People Former Advertiser reporter finds cuttings from his time at the paper - and the m...

People Former Advertiser reporter remembers the heroes of Rugby, who gave everything so...

Home Warwickshire's centuries-old association with the supernatural - here are a few ...

Home Rugby's centuries-old association with the supernatural - here are a few of our ...

People How the shooting of Reg Calvert ended Rugby's spell in the 1960s rock and roll s...

People Former Advertiser reporter remembers finding a rifle on the banks of the River S...

People How former a former Advertiser reporter's namesake, and distant relative, was bu...

People Paradise lost? - How urban sprawl has destroyed much of Rugby's beautiful countr...

People Former Advertiser reporter pays tribute to Joe Towers, a true son of the soil

People Remembering Bill, the Lawrence Sheriff groundsman who fought in the trenches and...

People 'The era of horses and carts would soon give way' - how aviation history was mad...

People The day a Rugbeian found a giant snake curled up in their home - and how it rela...

People Ale, cigarettes, a Triumph 650 and leaving school at 16 - life for Advertiser re...

People The eerily fascinating story behind 'One-armed Boughton', the ghost said to haun...