I’ve covered Evesham before but this time we parked in a different place and were able to explore different parts of the town and so we found this shop with Deco windows:-

This is on the main street and probably isn’t deco but more on the cusp:-

And this has changed ownership – or at least its name – since we were there last (see second link above):-

The Bridge over the Severn at Worcester is nice but not particularly striking.

This piqued my interest. It’s a gate across an alley hard by the Railway Station. It may lead to a car park there or something. Very childrens’ story like.

Just opposite Worcester Cathedral at the edge of the town centre is this statue of the composer Edward Elgar (who wrote, among many other pieces, Pomp and Circumstance March No 1; sometimes known as Land of Hope and Glory, though the words were a later addition.)

Apart from the cinemas I featured last week Worcester was crammed full of deco architecture.

This shop has a nice rounded corner but its proprietors seem to be coy about themselves what with the canopies obscuring any name. I like the windows too.

This one seems to have been built in three goes – at least according to the pediments. 1925, as prominently here, 1932 and 1959 further along to the right.

This is the 1932 pediment which has Russell and Dorrell inscribed on it. I don’t know if that was the original owners or the builders. There seems to be a plaque missing on the lower level.

Then there was Boots, with nice detailing directly below the flagpoles. The ironwork is lovely too.

Worcester was the first big place we went on our recent trip. We took the Park and Ride as the easy option.

I noticed this Odeon Cinema on the way in just before the drop-off point and so took the opportunity to photograph it a bit later. Unfortunately there were works of some sort going on on the road outside it so you can’t see it all properly.

Just across the road from the Odeon and a few yards up is the former Gaumont Cinema which now has Gala Bingo emblazoned on it. The whole thing was too long to get a direct frontal shot.

The facade looks like this close up:-

Researching these on the internet I also came across this beauty at cinematopia.co.uk. It’s called the Northwick (an area of the city apparently.)

Histories (and photos) of these and other non-deco Worcester cinemas can be found here.

Evesham in Worcestershire was about 10 or so miles from where we were staying.

I’ve heard of the Vale of Evesham but we didn’t really notice it as such until our last day and had a climb up a steepish hill on our way to Oxford and could see back where we’d come from. There were some apple trees in bloom but nowhere to stop to photograph them.

Evesham itself is a bit down-at-heel but with some quaint old buildings.

Evesham Central Market had a deco flourish on its roofline, though.

Inside there were the usual sort of wee shops found in an indoor market, but only a few of them, plus a set of rooms housing a “junky” kind of antique dealer’s. A bit further up there were two rather less “junky” antique shops side-by-side just off the other side of the main street.

At one end of the street there was this building which doen’t really look very deco apart from the chimney and the decoration between the windows and the roof line.