| Stratford-upon-Avon |
| New Place and Chapel Street |
| Chapel Street showing Nash's House and the site of New Place. |
| This postcard was mailed from Oslo to Pennsylvania in 1936. |
| The Knot Garden in New Place - a postcard by Ernest Daniels. |
| A superb postcard by Judges, showing Chapel Street and the Shakespeare Hotel, probably in the 1920s - some marvellous old cars ! |
| The "Falcon" - a postcard from 1938. |
| ...and also in this one which shows the shops in Chapel Street, the "Shakespeare" and the Town Hall. |
| New Place Gardens with the Old Theatre Tower in the background. |
| This one was mailed in 1952 - however, from the lack of traffic and the dress of the Grammar School boys, I imagine it is considerably older. Note the garlands on the wall of the gardens. (Z) |
| A super old postcard of the "Shakespeare" from 1907. The entrance porch was moved to the "Red Horse" - now Marks and Spencer. |
| The back entrance to the "Shakespeare". |
| An undated view of Chapel Street and the "Shakespeare". |
| Lots of detail in this old card......... |
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| An Edwardian view of Chapel Street with the Town Hall. |
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| William Shakespeare lived in New Place from about 1610 until his death in 1616. It was an impressive brick building, the second largest in Stratford at the time. After Shakespeare died, the house was sold to an eccentric gentleman, the Rev Francis Gastrell who, wishing to avoid taxes, knocked the house down. This so annoyed Stratford residents that they drove him out of the town and banned anyone with the name Gastrell from ever living in Stratford. Hence today we can only see some of the foundations, and no doubt there are very few Gastrells in the town ! |
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| The Guild Chapel and New Place Gardens. |
| New Place Gardens. |
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