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Shakespeare's Birthplace in the 1950s / 60s.The road in front is now pedestrianised and the house beyond has been demolished. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) is an independent registered educational charity [1] based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, that came into existence in 1847 following the purchase of William Shakespeare's birthplace for preservation as a national ...
Mary Arden's Farm, also known as Mary Arden's House, is the farmhouse of Mary Shakespeare (née Arden), the mother of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. [1] Because of confusion about the actual house inhabited by Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, the term may refer to either of two houses.
Adjoining the Birthplace is the Shakespeare Centre, a contrasting modern glass and concrete visitors centre which forms the headquarters of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The driving force behind its construction, and opening in 1964, was Levi Fox , OBE, Director of the Trust from 1945 to 1989, with a view to properly housing its library ...
John Shakespeare's large half-timbered dwelling, purchased by him in 1556, was in 1564 the birthplace of his son William. According to a descriptive placard provided for tourists there: The property remained in the ownership of William Shakespeare's direct descendants until 1670, when his granddaughter, Elizabeth Barnard, died. As she had no ...
William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, was baptised in Holy Trinity on 26 April 1564 and was buried there on 25 April 1616. [17] The church still possesses the original Elizabethan register giving details of his baptism and burial, though it is kept by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for safekeeping. He is buried in the 15th-century chancel ...
Hall's Croft is a building in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, which was owned by William Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna Hall, and her husband Dr John Hall whom she married in 1607. [ 1 ] The building is listed grade I , [ 2 ] and now contains a collection of 16th- and 17th-century paintings and furniture.
However, it was still occupied by them as tenants when it was acquired in 1892 by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which removed later additions and alterations; William Baker was the last to live in the property and he left when his mother Mary Baker died in 1911. In 1969 the cottage was badly damaged in a fire, but was restored by the Trust. [1]
Harvard House (photo 3 September 2006). Harvard House stands at what is now 26 High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.Once known as the Ancient House, It was built in 1596, by Thomas Rogers, grandfather of the benefactor of Harvard University, John Harvard, [1] following the disastrous fires in 1594 and 1595 which destroyed much of the town centre. [2]