News

Explore Your Archive: 5 Dandy Row

  • 12th November 2014

John Baylis was born around 1868. His father Samuel Baylis is also a previous resident of Dandy Row. John and his wife Susan (who died in 1908) had five children, Sidney, Gertrude, Edith, Arthur and Bertram.

For many years John worked at Worcester Porcelain as a china printer, although in some sources he has also been described as a china painter and china guilder. Amongst their archives, Worcester Porcelain Museum has a photograph of long serving personnel from around 1929, which they have been kind enough to give us permission to use here. John Baylis can be found in the back row, at the far right of the picture.

Photograph reproduced with permission from Museum of Royal Worcester, Severn Street, Worcester

Worcester Porcelain was a large local employer, and their factory was just next door to Dandy Row on Severn Street. The Museum of Royal Worcester have been adding items from their collection and archive images to their website. This can be found at: www.museumofroyalworcester.org

John Baylis was living at Dandy Row when he died and was buried at Astwood Cemetery on 11 April 1933. His children Arthur, Bertram and Edith are listed in the 1936 register of electors at Dandy Row.

By Teresa Jones

Comments are closed.

Related news


  • 23rd September 2024
Milestone Ground Broadway – Open Day

Join our archaeologists to see the exciting excavation, which is uncovering 8,000 years of human history, from prehistory to the medieval period in Broadway. On Saturday 12th October the team will be offering free guided tours from 11am-3pm to allow local residents to see this fascinating site. No booking required, just drop-in to see finds...

  • 8th July 2024
From petty crimes to ‘poor man’s bread’ – the surprising value of watercress revealed in the Worcestershire Petty Sessions

  Stealing of watercress recorded in the Stourport on Severn-Petty sessions at Ref 499.1 BA8470/28 p.73 Petty Sessions and Magistrates Court records are amongst some of the huge variety of public records held with Worcestershire Archives on behalf of Worcestershire County Council as part of The Public Records Act. The Public Records act requires certain...

  • 5th July 2024
Brass Bands

While enjoying Pershore Midsummer Brass Festival this month we thought we would look through the archives for material on brass bands. Pershore Midsummer Brass is held on the first Saturday of July each year, in various venues through Pershore, Worcestershire. It has been running now for over 20 years. We know that many people in...