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Powick Bridge pictured in 2006
The battle of Powick Bridge was a skirmish fought on 23 September 1642 south of
Worcester, England, during the
First English Civil War. It was the first engagement between elements of the principal field armies of the
Royalists and
Parliamentarians. Sir
John Byron was escorting a Royalist
convoy of valuables from
Oxford to
King Charles's army in
Shrewsbury and, worried about the proximity of the Parliamentarians, took refuge in Worcester on 16 September to await reinforcements. The Royalists despatched a force commanded by
Prince Rupert. Meanwhile, the Parliamentarians sent a detachment, under Colonel John Brown, to try to capture the convoy. Each force consisted of around 1,000 mounted troops, a mix of
cavalry and
dragoons. (Full article...)
Image 31The coat of arms of Worcestershire County Council (from Worcestershire)
Image 32The
spa town of Great Malvern was laid out and developed largely during the 19th century
Image 33Graves of railway engineers Tom Scaife and Joseph Rutherford, killed in an engine explosion in Bromsgrove in 1840 (from Bromsgrove)
Image 34Coat of Arms of the former Bromsgrove Rural District Council (from Bromsgrove)
Image 35The Malvhina Fountain in the town centre, a sculpture by artist Rose Garrard. (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
Image 36Stafford tomb, St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove: one of the most powerful families in Worcestershire, living just south of the town (from Bromsgrove)
Image 53Seven shillings a week: this nailmaker in 1896 worked from 7am to 10pm, and turned out 11lbs of nails a week. (from Bromsgrove)
Image 54Richard Baxter, the leading Puritan in Kidderminster, noted the rising opposition to King Charles' policies of taxation and rule without Parliament (from History of Worcestershire)
Image 55Grafton Manor, home of the Catholic Talbot family, holding leading military posts in Worcestershire's Royalist forces in the Civil War (from Bromsgrove)
Image 56Bewdley and surrounding area (Ordnance Survey) (from Bewdley)
Image 57Council House (built 1874), viewed from Priory Park, is the headquarters of the District Council. (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
Image 58Hand-drawn map of Worcestershire by Christopher Saxton from 1577. (from Worcestershire)
Image 59Parkside, headquarters of Bromsgrove District Council (from Bromsgrove)
Image 72The Enigma Fountain and statue of Edward Elgar, a group of sculptures by artist
Rose Garrard, on Belle Vue Terrace (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
Image 77Halesowen was an exclave of neighbouring
Shropshire until 1844 when it was reincorporated into Worcestershire. It is now within the metropolitan county of the
West Midlands. (from Worcestershire)
Image 81Worcester Bosch; Bosch Thermotechnology are in
Warndon (from Worcestershire)
Image 82The hand axe discovered in the 1970s in
Hallow. Potentially the first Early Middle Palaeolithic artefact from the West Midlands. (from History of Worcestershire)
Image 88Commemorative pavement plaque in Alcester Street (from Redditch)
Image 89Interior of a Bromsgrove Nailmaker's shed in 1896; occupied by the tenant and two stallers, the latter worked each on his own account, and paid 6d. a week apiece and one-third of the firing. The oliver, or heavy hammer used for heading the nails, is attached to the bench in front of the little anvil. (from Bromsgrove)
Image 101The hand axe discovered in 1970s in
Hallow. Potentially the first Early Middle Palaeolithic artefact from the West Midlands. (from Worcestershire)
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Reconstruction of Worcester Castle as it was in 1250 AD
Worcester Castle was a
Norman fortification built between 1068 and 1069 in
Worcester, England by
Urse d'Abetot on behalf of
William the Conqueror. The castle had a
motte-and-bailey design and was located on the south side of the old
Anglo-Saxon city, cutting into the grounds of
Worcester Cathedral. Royal castles were owned by the king and maintained on his behalf by an appointed
constable. At Worcester that role was passed down through the local Beauchamp family on a hereditary basis, giving them permanent control of the castle and considerable power within the city. The castle played an important part in the wars of the 12th and early 13th century, including
the Anarchy and the
First Barons' War.
In 1217,
Henry III's government decided to break the power of the Beauchamps and reduce the ongoing military threat posed by the castle by returning much of the castle's bailey to the cathedral. Without an intact bailey the castle was no longer valuable militarily, although it played a small part in the
Second Barons' War in the 1260s. A
gaol had been built in the castle by the early 13th century and the castle continued to be used as
Worcestershire's county gaol until the 19th century, when a new prison was built on the north side of Worcester and the old site completely redeveloped. Today nothing remains of Worcester Castle with the exception of Edgar's Tower, a cathedral gatehouse built on the former entrance to the castle. (Full article...)
The Most I Have To Fear While Hiking In Worcestershire, Is Whether Or Not The Mud Awaiting Me In The Narrow Lanes Ahead Is Deep Enough To Foul My Socks.
...that the investigation into the murder of Céline Figard saw the UK's first national
DNA screening programme in the hunt for a suspect?
...that the medieval nobleman Walter de Beauchamp was granted the right to keep pheasants on his lands and fine any who poached them by King
Henry I of England?
WORCS/ToDo is a list of urgent tasks. If they have been addressed, please do not remove them from the list, but check them off with the {{done}} ( Done) template, and sign your name with four tildes: ~~~~ (Full article...)