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In Stratford-upon-Avon, the owners of Shrieves House, the former Three Tunns Tavern and now a museum, claim William Shakespeare based the character Falstaff on William Rogers, one of the Sargeants of the mace and close friend of the Shakespeares.
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Stratford-upon-Avon and owners
The site was acquired in 1953 by its current owners, the Wigington Family of Stratford-upon-Avon, for £ 20, 000, and is in the guardianship of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and managed on its behalf by English Heritage since 1984.
Stratford-upon-Avon and House
The Stratford-on-Avon District Council is based at Elizabeth House, Church Street, and the Stratford-upon-Avon Town Trust is based in the Civic Hall, Rother Street.
For the plan to work Rookwood and his horses needed to be close to the other conspirators, and so Catesby persuaded him to rent Clopton House at Stratford-upon-Avon.
* 1954: The Dark is Light Enough, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Opera House, Manchester ; Aldwych Theatre
He was born at Clopton House, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
Under this plan, the nucleus of government would relocate to the West Midlands — the War Cabinet and ministers would move to Hindlip Hall, Bevere House and Malvern College near Worcester and Parliament to Stratford-upon-Avon.
Maude gave up his seat at the 1983 UK general election, and was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwickshire later that year.
He died, aged 73, at Welcombe House, Snitterfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Stratford-upon-Avon and former
The former links Birmingham Snow Hill station with Worcester, Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa.
to Stratford-upon-Avon, and some legacies to Jesus chantry in St. Paul's Cathedral, desiring that ‘ his soul might be prayed for .’ He was also a benefactor to Balliol College, Oxford, and to Cambridge, but especially to the former, where he provided for the maintenance of two scholars born in the diocese of Worcester.
The river and the trackbed of a former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway branch line divide the village into two parts.
Helmdon had two railway stations: the first, in its latter years called, was on the former Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway between Stratford-upon-Avon and Towcester mentioned above.
* An obelisk erected in memory of Philips in 1876 stands on the family's former estate outside Stratford-upon-Avon.
Stratford-upon-Avon and Three
Three miles ( 5 km ) from Hatton Top Lock the canal passes through Shrewley Tunnel, with its separate horse tunnel, and then passes Rowington village to Kingswood Junction where a short spur connects with the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.
* Three Sisters ( as Tusenbach ) Stratford-upon-Avon London and tour, 1979
Stratford-upon-Avon and now
* Brad Moran, grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon then moved to Australia when he was 15, he is now an Australian Rules Footballer with the Adelaide Crows.
* A statue by John Henry Foley was shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition and later donated to the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon where it now stands.
Other canals such as the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, the Warwick and Birmingham Canal ( now the Grand Union ) and the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal linked Birmingham to the rest of the country.
Other notable firms are Reynolds ( still manufacturing in the city ), New Hudson, Rudge-Whitworth ( also of Coventry ), B. S. A., C. W. S., Dawes, Grundle, James Cycle Co, Ariel, Armstrong Cycles, Phillips Cycles, Excelsior ( originally of Coventry ), Sun Cycle & Fittings Co, Pashley Cycles ( now manufactured in Stratford-upon-Avon ) and Hercules Cycle and Motor Company.
Stratford-upon-Avon and museum
The original puppet is kept in the teddy bear museum in Stratford-upon-Avon, founded by Gyles Brandreth.
Stratford-upon-Avon and claim
The claim that the works of Shakespeare were in fact written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon dates back to the mid-nineteenth century.
Stratford-upon-Avon and William
* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).
* 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £ 40 bond for their marriage license.
The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship proposes that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 1550 – 1604 ), wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.
* Stratford-upon-Avon, a town in Warwickshire, the birthplace of William Shakespeare
* William Wells Hewitt 1922 – 26 ( afterwards organist of Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon )
Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where the wife of William Shakespeare lived as a child in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about west of Stratford-upon-Avon.
* Stratford-upon-Avon: The birthplace of William Shakespeare is probably the most visited place in Stratford.
Perhaps the most famous playwright in the world, William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon, wrote plays that are still performed in theatres across the world to this day.
He was baptised on 3 March, his godfather sometimes being said to have been William Shakespeare, who had stayed frequently at the Crown during his travels between London and Stratford-upon-Avon.
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, opened in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1932, was named after the playwright, William Shakespeare
His house in Stratford-upon-Avon eventually became William Shakespeare's finest home, New Place.
* King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire-which William Shakespeare attended
William Sandys who between 1636 and 1639 made the Avon ) navigable from Tewkesbury to Stratford-upon-Avon was at the same time also authorised to improve the Teme between Worcester and Ludlow.
Even William Shakespeare, buried at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, was not honoured with a monument until 1740 when one designed by William Kent was constructed in Poets ' Corner ( though shortly after his death William Basse had suggested Shakepeare should be buried there.
Many believe it derives from Stratford-upon-Avon in England, William Shakespeare's birthplace, a view which is lent credence by the fact that it is located by the river Avon.
* Sir William Lawrence, 5th Baronet ( born 1954 ), served on Stratford-upon-Avon District Council since 1982
He was born 1605 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire ; England in 1631 he married Mary Harvie in St. Mary's church, as written in " Beardsley Genealogy-The Family of William Beardsley-One of the first settlers and founder of Stratford, Connecticut " ( Nellie Beardsley Holt, 1951 ).
Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare
Oxford had borrowed the name from a third Shakespeare, the man of that name from Stratford-upon-Avon, who was a law student at the time, but who was never an actor or a writer.
* March 6 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.
* September 6 – September 9 – David Garrick holds the first Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon.
He directed John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre, and in the same period he directed Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon.
* Stratford-upon-Avon ( Shakespeare Festival ) April – October
She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in December 1961 playing Anya in The Cherry Orchard at the Aldwych Theatre in London, and made her Stratford-upon-Avon debut in April 1962 as Isabella in Measure for Measure.
Tutin first joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company for the 1960 season in Stratford-upon-Avon, appearing as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Viola in Twelfth Night and Cressida in Troilus and Cressida.
Redgrave joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon and for the 1951 season appeared as Prospero in The Tempest as well as playing Richard II, Hotspur and Chorus in the Cycle of Histories, for which he also directed Henry IV Part Two.
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal links to the Avon through a lock in the park in front of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
* Coriolanus as Menenius, 2007, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon
In 1952 he appeared at the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre ( forerunner of the Royal Shakespeare Company ) but had mixed reviews: his Prospero in The Tempest was judged too prosaic, and his Macbeth, directed by Gielgud, was thought unconvincingly villainous (" Richardson's playing of Macbeth suggests a fatal disparity between his temperament and the part ").
In September 1769 Garrick staged the Shakespeare Jubilee in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Renovated Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2011
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