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44 The Village
My wife and I moved to Powick in the 1980s. Dating back to the late 1500s the whole row of (now four) houses were used by Cromwell as a hospital during the Civil war. It had no central heating and during our stay there we added that, changed the old drafty windows, put in a damp course including new flooring in the kitchen and lounge, had the roof re-tiled replaced some of the rotten roof beams and timbers and the loft was insulated with a firewall put in place between No44 and No43.
Over its many years, the row had been two, three and finally four houses and sometime in the 1700s the end house No45 (Now the Red Lion) ...read more here
Contributed by Fred Dager-Brown
Red Lion Inn Publican 1841
I am currently researching my family history and my gt gt gt gt grandfather is registered as the publican keeping this pub. his name was William Kerby and his wife`s name was Mary. The year was 1841. does anyone have any further information regarding this.
Contributed by Christopher Tunstall
Notes from the Frith files.
This photograph shows the Red Lion pub set back from the junction of Malvern Road with Upton Road which is on the right. The traffic island was soon to disappear as this main road section became a one way system by the early 1960s. The pub still exists. Seasonal hop pickers would have used the pub as extensive hop yards existed behind the houses on the right. I lived in this part of Powick and was 5 years old in 1955.
Contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Notes from the Frith files.
This photograph shows residents waiting for the No.144 Midland Red bus from Malvern to Worcester outside the village shops. Far left is EW Bird's butchers, left is Cromptons newsagents, off picture further left is Procters general store. There were three shops in this row, all now closed. The pub sign behind the lady in the centre is for the Coventry Arms which was down the unmade short lane to the side of the butchers. This pub was one of three in the village and the first to close in the 1960s. The lane leading up the hill is Kings Lane. The tiny tree within the iron circular seat to the left of the cottage didn't last long as the road was ...read more here
Contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Extracts From Powick & Worcestershire books
Powick stands where the waters of the Severn and the Teme mingle. Everyone who loves fine porcelain should visit Powick, for it was the birthplace in 1708 of Dr John Wall, who opened the first factory for the creation of Worcester Porcelain.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
Powick’s older bridge was the scene of a Civil War battle in 1651 when Royalist troops under Montgomery held it
for two hours against superior Parliamentary forces. Montgomery and his men fought courageously, but were
eventually overwhelmed.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
This extensive and grim asylum is a reminder of how earlier generations treated the mentally-ill by locking them away,
often far from their homes and families. It remains a functional, if forbidding, example of Victorian architecture.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
Powick is best known for the Battle of Powick Bridge, the first skirmish of the Civil War in 1642. It lasted only 15 minutes or so but it left over 50 Parliamentary troopers dead, some of them drowned in the Teme. All the Royalist officers were injured too, except for their commander, the dashing Prince Rupert.
An extract from from"Worcester Photographic Memories".
Much of the quietness of old Powick was lost for ever in the 20th century when a new road from Malvern to
Worcester was cut through the parish. But the countryside around remains largely unspoiled and full of reminders
of the battles and skirmishes of the English Civil War.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".