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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 ...
Historic map from 1902. The route of the Historic Spine can be seen from Shakespeare's Birthplace (A) to The Holy Trinity Church (B) Following Stratford's expansion from a village into a town in the early 12th century, the route linking the new town to the Holy Trinity Church in Old Town became the location for many of the towns earliest and most important buildings.
Within a month Shakespeare was dead, his funeral and burial being held at Holy Trinity on 25 April 1616. Above the grave, a badly eroded stone slab displays his epitaph: Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare, to digg the dvst encloased heare. Bleste be y e man y t spares thes stones, and cvrst be he y t moves my bones. Shakespeare's grave
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.
The final concord (a conveyance in two parts) between William Shakespeare and Hercules Underhill, confirming Shakespeare's title to New Place, Michaelmas 1602. At his death in 1570, Underhill left New Place to his son, William Underhill II (d.1597), who in 1597 sold it to William Shakespeare for £60.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is bringing a giant dose of whimsy to Stratford-upon-Avon, announcing a new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The BFG” as its marquee family production. The big ...
Shakespeare's Birthplace. Henley Street, one of the town's oldest streets, underwent substantial architectural change between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. 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 ...