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Worcestershire Archives and Archaeology Service are privileged to have a deposit in their collections connected to one of Worcestershire’s most distinguished naval heroes, Admiral Sir William George Tennant. In this article, we will take a look into the life of Admiral Tennant. Born at Quatford, Shropshire in January 1890 to Edmund and Mary Tennant, William...
One of the interesting collections we’ve come across as part of our retroconversion project are four cricketing memorabilia books, collected by three members of the same family – Ruth Jackson, the depositor, and her mother and aunt Frances and Eleanor Bomford. We have three autograph books and a scrapbook, compiled on and off over 96...
This month, the Explore Your Archive campaign is #EYAarchitecture, so we thought that it was a great time to focus on some of our marvellous collections. Whether its timber framed buildings, New Towns, churches, public buildings or stories of the architects themselves, we have something to interest you. Conserving timber framed buildings Freddie Charles (1912-2002)...
