Items in Worcestershire

Antique Map of Worcestershire

Antique Map of Worcestershire

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Worcestershire; England

Added: 2008-10-09

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Edgar’s Gateway, Worcester

The engraving (signed Whymper) is of Edgar Tower, also known as St Mary’s Gate, an arched and defended stone tower guarding a gateway in the city wall. It was thought to have been build in the 10th C [...]

Keywords: gates, towers, entrances, people, windows, christmas

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-14

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Stanton Court: The Centre of West Point

The porch and oriel projections are small, and gable-ended wings stretch forth. [p. xvi]. Nowadays you can stay at Stanton Court Cottages (I think this is the same place; it’s near Broadway, Worceste [...]

Keywords: manors, windows, creeper, windows, entrances

Places shown: Stanton; Broadway; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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Stanton Court: The Centre of West Point

This is a version that I coloured slightly. The photographs in the book are monochrome, so this is just a guess on my part.

Keywords: manors, windows, creeper, windows, entrances, colour

Places shown: Stanton; Broadway; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-01-17

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Overview map of Worcestershire, England

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Pershoew, Worcestershire

From a [painting] by Wilmot Pilsbury. A bucolic pastoral scene of half-timbered english country cottages, complete with a hay-rick and a cattle barn, and a string of washing.

Pershore travel site

Keywords: colour, cottages, houses, buildings

Places shown: Pershore; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-11-01

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Suckley, Worcestershire.

From a water-colour drawing by E. A. Chadwick.

A brick cottage, with a half-timbered part. A girl kneels and another person, probably a child, seems to be talking with her. Lots of trees.

Keywords: cottages, houses, people, children, trees, colour, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Suckley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-10-07

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819.—Bridge at Evesham.

“ “About two miles and a half from Evesham is an elevated point near the village of Twyford, where the Alcester Road is crossed by another track. The [River] Avon is not more than a mile distant on e [...]

Keywords: bridges, water, people, churches, christmas

Places shown: Evesham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-02-13

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1951.—Battle at Worcester

At top – View of Worcester. (From an old [as of 1845] Print.) The battle was fought on the foreground meadows. In the centre, the flight of [King] Charles before the Parliamentary Soldiers; designed [...]

Keywords: battles, horses, weapons, churches, towers, houses, towns, horses

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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Town Cross, Stocks and Whipping-Post, Ripple

“Near the cross, relics of days when there were rogues in Ripple—sureley there are none now—are the oaken stocks and weather-beaten whipping-post.” (p. 132) Stocks were sometimes used to hold people b [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, buildings

Places shown: Ripple; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-16

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