John Phillpott

The grave of William Webb Ellis. Photo: By Baltar100 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40178170

Salute to a revolutionary

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

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.

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

Majestic... Shakespeare’s Avon as it passes through Stratford.

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

Harborough Fields Farm... Joe Towers was my first boss.

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

Southam’s very own - Steve Walwyn (furthest right) of Dr Feelgood.

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

Past the Windmill pub... can you just about make it out?

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

Now here’s a familiar scene for Rugbeians everywhere...

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

Rugby’s BTH played a great part in the Frank Whittle story.

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

Rugby band Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours appearing on cult TV show
Ready, Steady, Go!

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

They all lie in foreign fields that are forever England. And they will never, ever be forgotten.

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

Warwickshire has a centuries-old association with the supernatural.

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

The Old Arm, a feeder channel of the Oxford Canal, which it joined just south of Brownsover Hall - and, according to legend, the apparent site of the 'One-armed Boughton' ghost.

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

Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours appear on Ready, Steady Go back in the 1960s.

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

Water everywhere... the River Avon bursts its banks at Rugby in 1932.

Former Advertiser reporter remembers Rugby's floods of yesteryear - and the skat...

A rural scene in the Rugby area of long ago.

Former Advertiser reporter remembers Gert and Daisy, two proud Rugby porkers who...

The Advertiser's old office on Albert Street.

'We don’t really want that sort of thing at the Rugby Advertiser' - when beards ...

Brian in Sidmouth.

Rugby rocker (and former Lawrence Sheriff pupil) is still rockin'

Reporter Fred Friend pictured at his retirement ‘do’. Photo by Paul Turner.

Evenin' all... Former Advertiser reporter remembers Rugby's police in the 1960s

Ruby McBean’s shop was at the top end of Church Street, Churchover.

Former Advertiser reporter remembers Ruby McBean and her Churchover palace of de...

Lawford Road, New Bilton... and not a car to be seen.

Former Advertiser reporter recalls of the magic of a Sunday in 1950s Rugby

Mystery of the hidden rifle on the banks of the River Swift.

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

John Phillpott's namesake... burned at the stake in December, 1555.

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

The way we were – a small boy watches a tractor in a Warwickshire field.

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

Barby Road, Rugby... in the days when the majestic elm was king.

Former Advertiser reporter remembers the days before 'helicopter parenting' - wh...

Rugby’s Clifton Road... scene of many an end-of-term merry jape!

Former Advertiser reporter remembers an old Rugby end of term tradition - and th...

The lost village of Cestersover stood on a hill above the River Swift.

Former Advertiser reporter investigates the legend of the lost township on Rugby...

What was this object... a spaceship or maybe a castle turret?

Steam trains exhaling cotton wool and a huge spaceship - the vivid memories of t...

In days gone by... an archive photograph of Clifton Road, Rugby.

Former Advertiser reporter visits a Rugby cemetery to find sister who died in 19...

Rugby's Black Swan pub - known to many as The Dirty Duck.

When Rugby's 'Dirty Duck' Black Swan pub was a haunt for dedicated followers of ...

The BTH: did a Russian revolutionary work here in the 1920s?

Rugby's links to the Russian Revolution - including a BTH worker and Lenin's vi...

The way we were... rural Warwickshire in days gone by.

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

Armistice Day at Ypres... memories of veteran Bill Batchelor.

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

The era of horses and carts would soon give way to powered flight.

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

The way we were... Rugby’s Central railway station back in the 1950s.

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

Rugby Theatre.

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