Timeline of
Sir Walter Scott and Kenilworth

        Sir Walter Scott Plaque This webpage will show
 
how his visit in 1815
 
has influenced life
 
in Kenilworth.
 
 
 
 
( Help is needed to
make this timeline
comprehensive.
Contact   Dr PatS
 
As requested in the
Kenilworth Weekly News
October 29th 2010 in
Kenilworth Letters )		        
This plague hung oustide Drummonds Café Bar for about 10 years from 1995
before it was assigned as demolition debris, from whence it was retrieved
in about 2005, and in 2010 returned to Kenilworth Town Council.
Courier Series, May 26th 1995 page 11 :- "Scott's hotel promised a plaque for the future"
Kenilworth Weekly News, October 22nd 2010 page 3 :- "Sir Walter Scott's memory will live as plaque is found"
( Help is needed to identify the exact location where the plaque was displayed outside Drummonds )

                   

Sir Walter Scott came to Kenilworth in 1815 on his return from inspecting the battlefield of Waterloo.
 
He stayed at the historic King's Arms ( now known as the King's Arms & Castle Hotel ), and he visited the Kenilworth Castle ruins.
 
This inspired him to write the novel "Kenilworth, A Romance" in 1820.
 
The three volume tragedy was published in 1821 and soon became a best seller.
 
This attracted visitors to come to Kenilworth, and even more came when the railway station was opened in 1844.

Sir Walter Scott Potrait

                   

Two postcards
from the
early decades
of the
20th century
are on the right.
 
( Click on
any picture
to view
its source ) 		The King's Arms & Castle Sir Walter Scott's Room

                   

Sir Walter Scott's Bedroom

The fireplace mantel pelmet & overmantel mirror suggest a 19th century fashion for the postcard on the left.
 
Sir Walter Scott's bedroom was still in use by hotel guests in the 1970s.
 
They slept in the four poster bed surrounded by leather bound copies of Scott's "Waverley" novels.

                   

In the early 1980s the furniture was sold and the hotel fell into disrepair.
Planning permission was given in 1985 for its rebuilding on condition that the new facade be a replica of the original.
Only the red sandstone ground floor frontage of the Vaults in Station Road remained unchanged.
In 2005 the interior was rebuit a second time, and that is when the plaque dissapeared from view.

This webpage is still under development

Acknowledgements & References
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This webpage at   midwarks.info/sirwalterscott   is compiled by   Dr PatS
for the Nowadays News section of the   Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum   webpage.