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Burbury Court, Emscote Road, WARWICK, CV34 5LD

The fire station is in Leamington. Warwick's small fire station was closed, controversially, a few years ago and the site redeveloped for apartments. Image

Identified as belonging to Warwick Corporation, on the corner of Emscote Road and Greville Road, see Image

Runs for about 130m at least as far as houses at the end of Hill Street. In view, Buddleia has burgeoned during the summer, but a richly coloured shrub rose is still in flower, 29 December.

It was almost certainly an X17 service from Coventry, which is scheduled to run every 15 minutes during the day. There's a bus stop here. Half the X17s terminate either at Warwick or Jaguar Land Rover at Gaydon down the road; half continue to Stratford-upon-Avon via estates and villages, the former X18 service. Stagecoach have at times used double-deckers on this route since it was extended to Stratford. The recovery vehicle is from Fillongley, a village northwest of Coventry. The scene was chanced upon during the snowy spell in mid-December 2017.

Bearing the name Spa Dairy. The company trades from Court Street in Old Town, Royal Leamington Spa. It has made annual returns since 2004. The nature of the business is given as 'Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats'.

This cover in the footway is perhaps for a connection to a phone box or into the sub-post office that is now a small convenience store. The letters P. O. / T. presumably stand for Post Office Telephones. Not sure how this cover was fixed or removed. The distinctive diamond shapes appear on many types of cast iron goods associated with former public utilities.

Formerly a sub-postoffice, then a convenience store, it has finally closed. It enjoyed the advantage of facing a pelican crossing on Emscote Road, and retaining a postbox. A good post office counter service has for some time been available up Spinney Hill in the McColl convenience store, now a Morrisons Daily branch. There are full post offices in the town centres of Warwick and Leamington.

No 180, right of centre, was once a sub-post office; the postbox remains. It looks as though the store has been extended into the ground floor of No 182, left of centre, leaving it as an upstairs flat reached by a repositioned front door. The store has remained open during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the late 19th century it was a street of small terraced houses: Image On the corner is the Elephant and Castle pub, known as the Simple Simon for a while – there was a pie factory up the road then. The block of six flats first appears on an OS map of the period 1968-71; it may be part of the Herald's Court development, accessed from Humphris Street.