Posted in History, Trips at 21:00 on 25 April 2019
The rooms in the house are quite small, as was the case at the time.
Dining area:-


A fireplace:-

Tudor-style window:-

There are words etched/written into the glass of this one:-

Bedroom:-

Shakespeare’s childhood bedroom:-

Is this like the second-best bed he left to Ann Hathaway?:-

Unfortunately the crib in this one, though cute, isn’t original:-

An upper chamber:-

Kitchen storage:-

Fire/cooking range:-

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Posted in Art Deco, Trips at 12:00 on 25 April 2019
We had a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon again on our trip south in February 2018.
As well as Shakespeare’s House:-

behind which (you have to pay to get in) were actors parading about and declaiming lines from his plays,:


I spotted this Art Decoish building. It’s the stepping on the roofline and I suppose the rule of three in the windows below the diamonds that gives a deco feel:-

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Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 16 October 2018
I seem not to have posted this before even though I took the photogaphs in April 2012.
Stratford-upon-Avon has two civic war memorials, one for the Great War, moved to near the river from its original location, and another for the Second World War on a wall nearby.
Great War Memorial:-

World War 2 memorial:-

This web page shows the memorials’ relative dispositions.
On another nearby wall is King Edward’s School Boat Club War Memorial – for both wars:-

Between the Great War Memorial and the Second World War Memorial lies a memorial to an individual. I’m afraid I can no longer remember whom it commemorates and the writing is too indistinct to make out when magnified.

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