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* Troilus and Cressida, Troilus, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Upon Avon and London ( 1996 )||( 1997 )
* The Herbal Bed, Rafe Smith, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Upon Avon and London ( 1996 )||( 1997 )
* Ian Charleson Award ( 1997 )-nominated for Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon
It also serves trains to Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Worcester, Dorridge and Stratford Upon Avon.
* 24 Carrott Gold ( BBC, recorded live at Stratford Upon Avon, 28 December 1990 )
* 24 Carrott Gold ( EMI TC EMC 3655, live Stratford Upon Avon TV soundtrack 1990, Audio Cassette, EMI Records 1991 )
* Stratford Upon Avon High School in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
There are train services to Birmingham Moor Street station, Birmingham Snow Hill station and on to Stourbridge Junction in one direction and to Henley in Arden and Stratford Upon Avon in the other direction from Shirley railway station which is located in Haslucks Green Road.
Upon withdrawal four locomotives were converted at Stratford into train pre-heating units.
* The Stratford Upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway
As of 2007 this has extended to regular summer timetabled services on both the Stratford Upon Avon line in the Midlands and from Grosmont, North Yorkshire on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to Whitby on the national rail network.
* Next was a rented garden, called Burmans Farm at Shottery () in Stratford Upon Avon which was called Berryfields for the purposes of the programme although it was often described as a ' top secret location near Birmingham '

Stratford and Avon
Shakespeare's native Avon and Stratford are referred to in two prefatory poems in the 1623 First Folio, one of which refers to Shakespeare as " Swan of Avon " and another to the author's " Stratford monument ".
John Harvard's mother's house is in Stratford upon Avon.
This area of Stratford, which runs from the foot of Bridge Street to Holy Trinity Church ( and leads directly off Sheep Street and Scholars Lane ) runs alongside the River Avon and offers access to the Waterside Theatre and all areas of the RST.
The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society aims to re-open the closed railway line from Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne, with a later extension to Broadway, Worcestershire.
* Stratford upon Avon Railway Station
Burt was educated in Stratford upon Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare, a town steeped in the tradition of the written and spoken word.
Once the Stratford Canal was completed, there was fierce competition between the Upper and Lower Avon companies, with coal from the Worcester and Birmingham coming up-river to Evesham, and coal coming down-river from Stratford.
Meanwhile, the Upper Avon Navigation between Stratford and Evesham was owned by relatives of Lord Windsor, who had died in 1758, and its condition gradually deteriorated.
He bought all of the shares in the Upper Avon company in 1813, and persuaded the Stratford Canal shareholders that there should be a junction between their canal and the river at Stratford, which was opened on 24 June 1816.
The Upper Avon was leased to the Stratford Canal from 1842, but there was little traffic, and the lease was not renewed in 1847.
By 1962, LANT had raised over £ 50, 000, the 7 locks from Tewkesbury to Evesham were restored to working order, re-opening the Lower Avon, and plans were already being made to rebuild Evesham Town Lock and press on towards Stratford.
The route would take it close to Warwick and Birmingham Canal at Lapworth, but the act did not include any provision for a direct connection with it, or with the River Avon at Stratford.
He wanted to create a through route between the River Severn and the Midlands, and so the Canal Company obtained a further act of Parliament on 12 May 1815, which authorised a connection between the canal and the Avon at Stratford, as well as enabling them to build reservoirs at Earlswood.
The canal reached Stratford in June 1816 and a connection with the River Avon was made.
On the southern section, coal was taken to Stratford, from where it was sold, or passed along the Upper Avon or the Stratford and Moreton Tramway.
The river was named after the River Avon in England when the town of Stratford was founded on its banks in 1832.
The Avon River rises northeast of Stratford and flows southwest, entering the North Thames River near St. Marys.

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* Simon Gilbert & Neil Codling of the band Suede lived and were educated in Stratford.
John Curwen ’ s son, John Spencer Curwen ( who founded the Stratford & East London Music Festival – the oldest English music festival – in 1882 ), published a paper called “ Old Plaistow ” in 1891 describing houses of the area.
In 2004 services from Leamington Spa to Birmingham Snow Hill & Stratford upon Avon were transferred into Chiltern Railways, although there was no real service improvement and Central, like its successor London Midland maintain a peak hours only service to Leamington Spa.
René Lévesque Memoirs, McClelland & Stewart ( translated by Philip Stratford )
The SMJR came into being from the amalgamation of ' The East & West Junction Railway ' ( E + WJR ), ' The Evesham, Redditch and Stratford Railway ' ( ER + SR ), and changing its name to ‘ The Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway( ST + MJR ), ‘ The Easton Neston Mineral and Towcester, Roade and Olney Junction Railway( ENM + TROJR ).
In 1910 ‘ The Northampton & Banbury Junction Railway( N + BJR ) was amalgamated into the SMJR and as the SMJR the company ran services between Broom Junction and Stratford and Banbury to the west through Towcester to Blisworth and Olney in the east, fashioning itself as ‘ The Shakespeare route ’.
* Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth & Penzance via Stratford upon Avonwas the GWR trunk route.
* Platforms 1 & 2: On 15 April 2009 the North London Line platforms at Stratford moved to new high-level platforms 1 & 2 from the old low-level platforms 1 & 2, the latter being made available for the DLR's Stratford International service ( opened on 31 August 2011 ).
* Gideon Tomlinson ( 1780 – 1854 ), noted lawyer, member of the United States House of Representatives ( 16th through 19th Congresses ), Senator for Connecticut ( 22nd through 24th Congresses ), and 25th Governor of Connecticut, born & interned in Stratford.
Instead it used the route of the originally separate Northern & Eastern ( N & ER ) and Norwich & Brandon railways, via Stratford, Cambridge, Ely and Brandon.
* Great Malvern / Worcester / Kidderminster / Stourbridge – Dorridge / Leamington Spa / Shirley / Stratford upon Avon via Birmingham Snow Hill & Moor Street
In 1556 at Bow, during the reign of Mary I of England, and under the authority of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, many people, were brought by cart, from Newgate, and burned at the stake, in front of Bow Church, in one of the many swings of the English Reformation .< ref >< cite > John Foxe's Book of Martyrs-The Martyrdome of Hugh Lauerocke & Iohn Apprice, at Stratford the Bow.
Stratford competes athletically with other schools in the sports of baseball, basketball, cross country running, diving, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field and volleyball.
To the south of the high street ( Stratford Road, A34 ) there are two retail parks ; one of which is listed as ' Solihull Gate Retail Park ', which has shops including retail outlets Argos, Boots and Toys R Us ; DIY stores B & Q and Homebase ; and electrical store Currys.
Service began on the 15 September 1840 between Stratford & Broxbourne.
It is bordered by Church Avenue to the north, the Brighton Line ( B & Q trains at present ) of the New York City Subway to the east, Beverley Road ( originally spelled Beverly ) to the south, and between Stratford Road and Coney Island Avenue to the west.
Image: Banbury, Blisworth, Cockley Brake, Fenny Compton, Northampton, Ravenstone Wood, Roade, Stratford on Avon, Towcester, & Woodford & Hinton RJD 2. jpg | A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Banbury.

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