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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 ...
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 ...
She eventually sold Hall's Croft on 3 November 1949 to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and on 15 November 1949, Spencer Wood surveyed the building to identify how the house could be repaired. [10] Restoration work began in 1950 and was completed and opened to the public by Spring 1951 in time for the Festival of Britain. [10]
Two of William Shakespeare's family homes will temporarily close to visitors to allow a series of essential conservation works to take place. The projects at Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford ...
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust acquired New Place and Nash's House in 1876. Today the site of New Place is accessible through a museum that resides in Nash's House, the house next door. [20] The site received 109,452 visitors during 2018. [21]
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.
"Shakespeare's Dreams" includes music from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Tempest" combined with text from the two plays by William Shakespeare.
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]