Tracing the Life of Shakespeare

We visited Shakespeare's Birthplace. I think it was a day trip from Oxford that the Anatomists convention arranged.

Shakespeare's Birthplace

At age 12, I had not studied a lot of Shakespeare, but I had heard of him. I don't remember much about the inside of the houses that we saw either. (I think we saw Shakespeare's Birthplace and Anne Hathaway's Cottage (although there are no photos of that) and I remember something about his will and some beds. Currently the will item leaving his wife the second best bed is said to mean the bed that the couple slept in, with the best bed being for guests.

Front of Shakespeare

People entering the BIrthplace

From inside the Birthplace -my sister sitting on a sundial

My dad took quite a few pictures of the garden with my sister on the sundial. The garden is a traditional English garden. That does not apparently mean historically accurate as to what it would have been in Shakespeare's time.

My sister on the sundial - street level

Flowers making patterns in the garden

People in the gardens

We also went to his Death Place, and the Globe Theatre, and had lunch at a The Shakespeare Gallery Restaurant at No.20 Bridge Street which no longer exists as a restaurant. This was originally a town house that was rebuilt after the 1641 fire. It is now opposite a Barclay's Bank

Scientists going in to lunch

This is listed in a book by H E Forrest called The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London:
1925-: 52-4; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its
Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 17

antique post card

The description is:
Timber-frame with brick rear wing; tile roof. Largely C20 timber-framed facade. 3 storeys; 2-window range; 1st and 2nd floors jettied; 2 gables. Late C20 ground floor recessed behind 2 posts to bressumer (recorded as having 2 caryatids, 1972). 1st floor has paired 18-pane sashes; 2nd floor has late C19 four-light transomed projecting windows. Close-studded framing; moulded barge-boards with finials. Some timber-framing visible to left return, and ogee-headed stair windows to 1st and 2nd floors with small-paned glazing.