I'm Adrian Grogan, I am a retired Civil Servant a degree in History and Geography. I have lived in Birmingham for all my life, within the parish of Yardley except for three years as an undergraduate in London. My main interests are local (Warwickshire, Worcestershire) history with an ecclesiastical emphsis. I am interested in Anglo Saxon history, church architecture, First World War graves/memorials (Western Front Association member).


When I started on Wikipedia I tended to embellish existing articles or stubs which is still generally the case with little bits of knowledge that I have about the location concerned. I still welcome any ammendments by more experienced users regarding formatting and referencing. I have for some years been interested in Warwickshire's history and have collected a small number of books on the subject.


  • Doomsday Book for Warwickshire
  • Antiquities of Warwickshire, William Dugdale 1656,
  • History of Warwickshire, Sam Timmins 1889
  • Memorials of Old Warwickshire Alice Dryden 1908
  • Bygone Warwickshire, Andrews, William F.R.H.S. (Editor) 1893
  • Historic Warwickshire, Its Legendary Lore Traditional Stories and Romantic Episodes, J Tom Burgess 1876
  • Highways and Byways in Shakspeares Country, W.H. Hutton 1914
  • Old Warwickshire Churches, W. Hobart Bird 1936
  • Gleanings from Warwickshire History, John Burman 1933
  • In the Forest of Arden, John Burman 1948
  • Warwickshire people and places, John Burman 1936
  • The buildings of England, Warwickshire, Nikolaus Pevsner, Alexandra Wedgwood 1966
  • The Old parish churches of Warwickshire, Mike Slater 1992

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Articles I have worked on

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Churches

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Warwickshire Villages

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Reference

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From To Aircraft Version
1918 1919 Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8
1919 Bristol F2B Fighter
1938 Hawker Hind
1938 1939 Fairey Battle
1939 Avro Anson Mk.I
1939 1942 Handley Page Hampden
1942 Avro Manchester
1942 1946 Avro Lancaster I & III Mk.I & III
1959 1963 Thor IRBM