Littlebury’s trade directory of 1879 has an entry for a Mrs W. Wood (milliner) at number 39 Friar Street. Note that house numbering was different back then and this equates to the northern part of the present day number 42. This account begins at that point with our subject married, with a family (ranging from a baby in arms to grown up offspring) and already an established Worcester business-woman. That is how she first came to the attention of of Tudor House Museum. From that starting point her humble origins in the south-west counties of England have been discovered as too has her ignominious end in a Worcester suburb.
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Really old images of Friar Street south of Union Street proved impossible to locate – if you know of any perhaps you could let us know?. Maybe the area was […]
It feels strange having a historical article on some of Friar Street’s newer buildings, Laslett’s alms-houses having “only” been built in 1912! Doubly strange as visitors to Tudor House museum often ask about the history of “those lovely old buildings across the street”. History it has in buckets though, so long as you look beyond and beneath the current (rather splendid) edifice.
Charles Street was created in the 1890s to create a cross-roads with Friar, New and Pump streets. No complete picture from showing the houses before they were demolished, but we have just a hint of the one from New Street in this image from 1880.