| This is the Stratford-upon-Avon section of our website. On these pages you can see over 300 old postcards - please use the navigation bar at the top of this page to tour Shakespeare's home town. |
| A 1926 "Multiview" postcard. |
A postcard from 1913. |
| You may click on any image on this site for a larger view, the size of which will depend on your web browser. Try it on the two small images above !! |
| We hope these postcards have whetted your appetite - click anywhere on the navigation bar at the top of this page and enjoy your tour of Stratford !! |
| The Old Advertisements which appear on some of the Stratford pages are taken from "E Fox's Penny Guide to Stratford-on-Avon". The copy we have is very flimsy and we can't date it accurately. However, it refers to the headmaster of KES as being the Rev EJW Houghton, who we have found was head from 1895 to 1902, so obviously the guide appeared somewhere between those dates. Do you shop at Morrison’s Supermarket by Stratford station? Some of our postcards have been reproduced on the walls of the recently refurbished building and also used to make "picture" windows in the restaurant. |
| We were delighted to have been able to assist the English National Opera by providing an image of one of our postcards for inclusion in the programme for their Spring 2006 production of Vaughan Williams' comic opera "Sir John in Love". The composer spent several weeks around the Old Theatre in the autumn of 1912 and the spring of 1913, working as musical director of “The Merry Wives of Windsor”under Frank Benson's direction, and fell in love with the play. He wrote the opera in 1920. The ENO has an excellent website - like Stratford, it's well worth a visit. |
| Stratford-upon-Avon |
| postcards of the past |
| There is also a page of postcards of some towns and villages near to Stratford for which we have insufficient postcards to justify individual pages. Follow this link to go there. |
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