Europe 2008 Part 60

 Stratford-on-Avon

 Once settled in our accommodation we returned to the town and strolled around exploring the main street (above).

Most famous of the tourist attractions in this town which was home to Shakespeare in his childhood is "Shakespeare's Birthplace:

 

We joined a conducted tour of the house and its garden. I had a special interest because I had had an invitation to apply for a research job there at the end of my University studies. (I didn't apply, as you know!)

Here is the view of the garden and back of the house:

 

 

 One of the interesting parts of the tour was the upstairs room known as the "Birth room".

We learned that in those days the beds were very short, as people slept sitting up.

This sketch is from a book of sketches originally published in 1913.

Drawn by Gordon Home they were originally printed just as sketches, but my copy is the 1950 edition with historical notes by Katherine M Press.

Publishers were Adam and Charles Black, London.