Following a simple enquiry from Canada in 1999, regarding a family by the name of Sanders living in Lich (Leech) Street in the early 1800's resulted in a twenty year intense research by Pam Hinks & CASP (Canadian Adaptions of Shakespeare Project)......

• 1601 Charge brought against John Genifer for threatening others and calling a 'poor wife' a witch
• 1633 Widow Bellett of Stony Morton, charged 'for practicing the evil art'. 
• 1660 Elinor Burt taken before magistrate, for taking on herself to cure several diseases and distempers by prayers and laying on her hands upon heads and...

The old name for St. Nicholas Street was 'Gaol Lane'. The deeds of an old house, which stood next to the Imperial Hotel, dated 1585, were in existence in 1910, though the house had gone with the widening of the road. The house was known as 'Ye Gaol Tower, close to ye Postern Gate leading to Losemoor (today known as Lowesmoor) near ye Garden Market' and 'within hail of the High Cross in Gaol Lane'. The old house used to have a doorway with some pretention to ornament, led up to by a flight of steps. The deeds and other old evidence show that it had been occupied by personages of distinction in local affairs. In the mid 19th century, there was a court in Lowesmoor called 'Percy's Alley'.... Read on below 

1. Prison Schoolmaster, Ariel Constable, lived at No 1 Easy Row
2. Holy Trinity Girl's School erected 1834 by subscription on site gifted by the Bishop of Worcester.
3. Boer War Memorial by W.R. Colton, ARA, unveiled Sept 26, 1908.
4. Fall of Chimney at White Hart, College Street, Feb 3, 1960..
5. Lord Napier at Guildhall, back from Abyssinia, in company of Sir John Pakington, Sec for War and USA. Ambassador. 1868.
6. Fred Corbett (Stroller), died Dec. 1939 aged 97, was Mayor 1882...

Potato rationing during the 1914-18 War at Worcester

The Receiving of the Bread Dole in the Chapter House of the Cathedral..

The Worcester Herald of January 26, 1901, featuring items of news from it's archives of one hundred years before, reported the following:

High on the north wall in Anderson & Virgo's chemist shop, which was in the Foregate Street, over the shelves, was displayed the horns of a cow. It had this place of ..

Pirie or Perry Wood is the last fragment of the forests that once closely surrounded Worcester. In Elizabethan times, the wardens of Feckenham Forest met at the...

A common Hall is a public meeting of citizens. When half of the 3,000 ratepayers showed no interest in the saving of the Arboretum, a Common Hall was called. There had been Common Halls called for before, but probably none as so rough...

A newscutting in the Foley Scrap book (W.o.r)) describes the fountain which formed the centrepiece of the Arboretum Gardens:                                                                                                                         'The fountain was designed by Barron, and is similar to the one at Witley Court. The diameter of the kerb is 48ft. There are...

In April 1931, MR.J Mayglothling, a well-known Non-conformist local preacher, then 82, making a speech which was reported in Berrow's Worcester Journal, said.....

Noake, the Victorian historian, wrote: 'Ancient names are the key-stones of history and should be scrupulously preserved'... The original name of Warmstrey Slip was Cowell's Lode. (This was the pre-1570 , Lode is the old name for a river crossing, but even Warmstrey Slip is none gone). Sansome was the name of the ...

John Fletcher, in 1908, recalled the changes at Worcester from when he last visited in the City in the 1880s. Three in particular are mentioned; The ford at Barbourne Brook, the loss of the Inglethorpe Almshouses in Taylors Lane, and the removal....