Stratford-upon-Avon is a much-visited town. Visitors will be familiar with Shakespeare's birthplace, Holy Trinity Church, and the theatre, but may overlook many of the place's hidden secrets. Among them are a pitch for the playing of the ancient game of Nine Men's Morris, a wagon from one of the world's earliest railways, a tree planted in memory of the beautiful actress Vivien Leigh, the house of the bestselling of all Victorian novelists (it's not Charles Dickens), wall paintings that Shakespeare would have seen, the house in which the Gunpowder Plot was launched, and the home of the man who drew the most famous cartoon of all time. Those reading Nicholas Fogg's book will never look at this famous place in the same way again. It demonstrates the wealth of detail that lies below every familiar surface.
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- Cover
- 1 - The Toll House on the Bridge
- 2 - The Firm That Made the Cooperage for ‘About the Best Beer Brewed in England’
- 3 - The Earliest Surviving Railway Truck
- 4 - The Statue Inspired by the Divine Sarah
- 5 - The Sculpture That Never Made It to the Houses of Parliament
- 6 - The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- 7 - The Windows Commemorating an Acting Company
- 8 - The Theatre That Rose from the Dead
- 9 - A Great Actress
- 10 - Topal, Nick Bottom and the Owl
- 11 - The Pub Given Its Name by a Theatrical Company
- 12 - The Nine Men’s Morris
- 13 - Holy Trinity Church
- 14 - The Public School That Never Was
- 15 - The House of the Bestselling of all Victorian Novelists
- 16 - The Waiter’s Tab
- 17 - The Oldest Schoolroom in the Land
- 18 - Doomsday
- 19 - The Roof of Shakespeare’s House
- 20 - The Sculptures That Once Graced Pall Mall
- 21 - The Room Where It All Began
- 22 - The Day They Tried to Blow Up the Town Hall
- 23 - The Mysterious Date on the Town Hall
- 24 - Everyman
- 25 - The Signed House That Begat America’s Oldest University
- 26 - The Wall Paintings Shakespeare Must Have Gazed Upon
- 27 - The Clock Tower That Witnessed a Riot
- 28 - The Pillars That Once Stood in Front of Stratford’s First Theatre
- 29 - Further Afield
- Notes
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