3-082-131 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Rambling Sketches: Broadway, Worcestershire, 1895. 'The Weeping Cross at Sainsbury; Broadway Tower and entrance to the Village; High Street; An Old Gable; The Old Church; The Court House. In gazetteers there are many Broadways, but to American tourists there is but one Broadway in England, and that the little village in Worcestershire..., a resort for artists and lovers of the picturesque. Five miles from Evesham..., Broadway is one of the few hamlets which still have a mediaeval appearance. Its inn, dating back to the seventeenth century, is particularly pleasing to the artistic eye, which looks in vain for many old-fashioned hostelries like this. The houses are built of stone, and have mullioned windows and gables. After the retreat from Worcester, King Charles quartered his troops here; then the place was called Broadway Street, not without reason, for it consists of a street nearly a mile in length. The old parish church, supplanted since 1839 by a modern edifice, is a cruciform building of the twelfth century, and stands in a valley at the foot of the Broadway Hills about a mile from the village. Its ancient font is an object of particular interest. The old manor-house of the Abbots of Pershore is another landmark fortunately preserved'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.