The William James Heritage Trail remembers William James (1771-1837) who built the tramway in Stratford.
The line started at the Stratford Canal Basin in the north and crossed the river before ...
I was around 10 years old when, on one particular weekend, there was a church fete which I visited with a group of friends from the area. We looked round ...
Flower and Sons used to have a brewery in the heart of Stratford-upon-Avon.
I started working for them in 1968. The company was then owned by Whitbread who decided to close ...
After four years of the Transformation project, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre opened its doors once more in 2010 after substantial redevelopment. Much of the art deco detailing of Elisabeth Scott’s ...
For many months I have been researching the history of the nationally unique series of tall cast iron mileposts along the former Stratford on Avon to Long Compton Turnpike. There ...
Origin of the almshouse
Ten almshouses were built in 1417-18 by the Guild of the Holy Cross (amazingly, accounts survive of payments for the costs of the building including 26s 8d ...
This was my auntie and uncle’s home. It was beside the river, on a plot with a boathouse, both accessed down a long track off Warwick Road. My uncle renovated/extended ...
From about 1938 until March 1944 my Mum and Dad, Vera and Bill Gregory, ran the pub part of RM Bird and Co the wine merchants, at 32 Bridge Street; ...