Finding something blue on her wedding day posed no problem for Kenilworth woman Sylvia Ward who announced her engagement to her very own ‘boy in blue’ this week in 1968.
A romance between her and Pc John Molineaux bloomed when they both worked at
Kenilworth police station which used to be in Albion Street - she as a civilian clerk and he as a court officer.
She lived in Upper Rosemary Hill and he lived in Watling Road but was originally from Nuneaton.
January 15, 1988
A traditional red telephone box in Castle Green, Kenilworth, escaped British Telecom’s modernisation scheme and officially became a historic building this week in 1988.
The preservation of the quaint red kiosk, standing as a proud British icon outside Kenilworth Castle, was the result of a campaign by the Thirties Society conservation group.
The campaign was launched in 1987 when the communications company was replacing many of the old boxes with new-style payphones.
British Telecom agreed not to replace the Castle Green box because a modern booth would be out of place in the historic setting near the ancient castle.
The Department of the Environment then decided the boxes, introduced in 1935, could be classed as listed buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
District councillors submitted their list to the department and Castle Green telephone kiosk, along with five others in the district, was listed as an historic building.
