Top 12 Tourist Attractions in Worcester - Travel England, United Kingdom
Top 12 Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Worcester - Travel England, United Kingdom:
Worcester Cathedral, Hanbury Hall, Croome, Gheluvelt Park, Tudor House, Grey friars House and Garden, Museum of Royal Worcester, Elgar Birthplace Museum, Worcester Guildhall, The Commandery, Cob House, Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
Jack the Ripper - London Walking Tour In His Footsteps
A guided London walking tour in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper, visiting all the principles locations of his crimes.
Subscribe on Youtube ➜
Joolz Guides website to book a private tour ➜
SUPPORT MY CHANNEL ON PATREON ➜
DONATE TO MY CHANNEL WITH PAYPAL ➜
Durward Street (Bucks Row) - Mary Anne Nichols
Hanbury Street - Annie Chapman
Henriques Street - Elizabeth Stride
Mitre Square - Catherine Eddows
Miller Court - May Jane Kelly
The Ten Bells Pub
Brick Lane
Spitalfields
The Royal London Hospital Museum - Jack The Ripper's letters.
Music by Lil Lost Lou and The Rattlaz ➜
Thanks to Magnus Nielsen. Get in touch if you want a tour with him!
The best websites for unique accommodations in Britain
You're planning a holiday in Britain and are looking for a unique boutique accommodation? I'm sharing my favorite websites in the video.
Here are some more website that are wonderful sources:
National Trust:
Mr & Mrs Smith:
Boutique Retreats:
Historic UK:
Air bnb:
CONNECT WITH ME:
INSTAGRAM:
PINTEREST:
FACEBOOK:
TWITTER:
Inside the Ten Bells haunted pub, Spitalfields | City Secrets | Time Out London
Once called the Jack the Ripper, this Spitalfields pub can't get away from its gory former namesake. In 1996, the landlord claimed The Ten Bells had been taken over by the ghost of Annie Chapman, murdered and mutilated by the Ripper in 1888. Poltergeist activity and inexplicable gusts of wind have been recorded by staff.
Find more spooky places in London here Thirsty? Check out out list of best pubs and bars
The most charming villages in the Cotswolds
The most charming villages in the Cotswolds // The Cotswolds are probably one of the most beautiful and romantic regions in England. Just think the film 'The Holiday'! Picturesque villages everywhere and the most beautiful houses. I'm sharing the country pub where we stayed for the weekend and the Cotswolds villages we visited. Upper Slaughter being one of the nicest places ever!
Where we stayed:
The Howard Arms Illmington:
My suitcase is from Steamline Luggage:
The villages we visited: Illmington, Blockley, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water
Where to stay in Lower Slaughter:
The Slaughters Country Inn:
The Slaughters Manor House:
CONNECT WITH ME:
INSTAGRAM:
PINTEREST:
FACEBOOK:
TWITTER:
Places to see in ( Worcester - UK )
Places to see in ( Worcester - UK )
Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, 31 miles southwest of Birmingham and 27 miles north of Gloucester. The River Severn flanks the western side of the city centre, which is overlooked by the 12th-century Worcester Cathedral.
The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the English Civil War, where Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated King Charles I's Cavaliers. Worcester is known as the home of Royal Worcester Porcelain, composer Edward Elgar, Lea & Perrins, makers of traditional Worcestershire sauce, and the University of Worcester.
Notable suburbs in Worcester include Barbourne, Blackpole, Cherry Orchard, Claines, Diglis, Northwick, Red Hill, Ronkswood, St Peter the Great (also simply known as St Peters), Tolladine, Warndon and Warndon Villages (which was once the largest housing development in the Country when the area was being constructed in the late 1980s/very early 1990s). Most of Worcester is on the eastern side of the River Severn; Henwick, Lower Wick, St. John's and Dines Green are on the western side.
The M5 Motorway runs north-south immediately to the east of the City and is accessed by Junction 6 (Worcester North) and Junction 7 (Worcester South). Worcester has two stations, Worcester Foregate Street and Worcester Shrub Hill. The main operator of bus services in and around the city is First Midland Red. A few other smaller operators provide services in Worcester, including; Astons, DRM and LMS Travel. Worcester's nearest major airport is Birmingham Airport which is accessible by road and rail. Gloucestershire Airport is approximately 25 miles away and provides General Aviation connections and scheduled services with Citywing to Jersey, the Isle of Man and Belfast.
Alot to see in ( Worcester - UK ) such as :
Hanbury Hall
Worcester Cathedral
Museum of Royal Worcester
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
Harvington Hall
Worcestershire Beacon
Brockhampton Estate
Malvern Museum
Snowshill Manor
Worcester Woods Country Park
Gheluvelt Park, Worcester
The Commandery
Cripplegate Park
Tudor House Museum
The Infirmary Museum
Edward Elgar Statue
Mercian Regiment Museum
George Marshall Medical Museum
Chapter Meadows
Shipley Amusement Centre
Battenhall Park
Laugherne Brook Local Nature Reserve
Gorse Hill and Elbury Mount Local Nature Reserve
National Trust - Greyfriars' House and Garden
Tolladine Wood
( Worcester - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Worcester . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Worcester - UK
Join us for more :
London Guided Walks With Richard Jones
London walks and tours ( guided by author and Blue Badge Tourist Guide Richard Jones.This short film shows a series of the walking tours that Richard offers around London. They includee Dickens London, Shakespeare's London, Beatles Tours, Sherlock Holmes Walks, Secret City Walks and many, many more.
Places to see in ( Pontypool - UK )
Places to see in ( Pontypool - UK )
Pontypool is a town that is home to approximately 36,000 people in the county borough of Torfaen, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in South Wales. It is situated on the Afon Lwyd river in the county borough of Torfaen. Situated on the eastern edge of the South Wales coalfields, Pontypool grew around industries including iron and steel production, coal mining and the growth of the railways. A rather artistic manufacturing industry which also flourished here alongside heavy industry was Japanning, a type of lacquer ware.
Pontypool itself consists of several smaller districts, these include Abersychan, Cwmffrwdoer, Pontnewynydd, Trevethin, Penygarn, Wainfelin, Tranch, Brynwern, Pontymoile, Blaendare, Cwmynyscoy, New Inn, Griffithstown and Sebastopol.
Pontypool has a notable history as one of the earliest industrial towns in Wales. The town and its immediate surroundings were home to significant industrial and technological innovations, with links to the iron industry dating back to the early fifteenth century when a bloomery furnace was established at Pontymoile. During the sixteenth century, largely due to the influence of the Hanbury family, the area developed its association with the iron industry and continued to consolidate its position in the seventeenth century, when the development of the town began in earnest. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the metallurgical and extractive industries of the area, along with the development of the canals and railways, provided the impetus to the expansion of Pontypool and its surrounding villages and communities.
The construction of the Monmouthshire Canal during the 1790s connected Pontnewynydd to Newport and later connected with the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal at Pontymoile in 1812. Tramroads leading from industrial areas within an eight-mile radius of the canal converged at either Pontnewynydd or Pontymoile.
The tramroads and canals were superseded by the railways in the mid-nineteenth century. From 1845, work commenced on establishing a railway from Pontypool to Newport. The line opened to passengers in 1852 and connected with Blaenavon in 1854. It eventually came under the management of the Great Western Railway. Another line was constructed during the 1860s and 1870s to connect Pontypool with Newport via Caerleon. Connections were also made with Abergavenny, Hereford and the Taff Vale. Pontypool had three railway stations, namely Crane Street, Clarence Street and Pontypool Road. Line closures during the 1960s greatly reduced the valley's railway connections, which were replaced by modern roads. The only passenger line still operating within Pontypool is at an unmanned station in New Inn. Pontypool & New Inn station is on the Welsh Marches Line with trains provided by Arriva Trains Wales.
Pontypool is well known for its extensive park. Pontypool Park was the historic seat of the Hanbury family, who developed a permanent residence in Pontypool in c. 1694 and, under the direction of Major John Hanbury, subsequently established a deer park in the early 1700s. The park became a venue for recreation and enjoyment for the Hanbury family and their associates.
( Pontypool - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Pontypool . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Pontypool - UK
Join us for more :
Hanbury Hall Worcestershire.
Hanbury Hall was built by the wealthy chancery lawyer Thomas Vernon in the early 18th century. Thomas Vernon was the great grandson of the first Vernon to come to Hanbury, Worcestershire, Rev Richard Vernon (1549–1628). Rev Richard and his descendants slowly accumulated land in Hanbury, including the manor, bought by Edward Vernon in 1630, but it was Thomas through his successful legal practice who added most to estates, which amounted to nearly 8,000 acres (32 km2) in his successor Bowater Vernon’s day.
Hanbury Hall is thought to stand on the site of the previous mansion, Spernall Hall, and Thomas Vernon first describes himself as ‘of Hanbury Hall’ in 1706, and this and other evidence leads to a likely completion date of about 1706. The date of 1701 above the front door is thought to be a Victorian embellishment, but no building accounts are known to exist.
Although Hanbury Hall appears to be of a very uniform style, the rear wall is clearly of a different and rather earlier style, and may mark the first phase of a building campaign when Thomas Vernon and his wife Mary first came into possession of Spernall Hall in 1692 when his bachelor uncle John Vernon died.
A notable feature of Hanbury Hall is the painting of the staircase, hall ceiling, and other rooms by the English painter Sir James Thornhill. They include a small representation of Rev Henry Sacheverell being cast to the furies – this relates to an incident in 1710 when Sacheverell, a Tory, was put on trial for sedition by the Whig government, and dates the paintings to that year. The focus of the paintings around the stairwell is the life of the Greek hero Achilles, as told by a range of classical sources. They are surmounted by a large representation of the Olympian gods on the ceiling.
The original plan of the Hall had a large undivided central hall with the main staircase leading off it, with many rather small rooms in the corner pavilions and north range – the south range was given over mainly to service rooms. The 18th century Worcestershire historian Treadway Nash, in his Collections for the History of Worcestershire, wrote “Here is a large handsome house built by Counsellor Vernon about the year 1710 when a bad style of architecture prevailed; many windows and doors, rooms small, many closets, few arched cellars, large stables and offices in full view, are marks of that time”.
When the heiress Emma Vernon (1754–1818) married Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter in 1776, Cecil clearly was of the same opinion, as he remodelled the interior (other than the great hall) creating larger rooms and enlarging the north east pavilion. On the south façade, having removed a doorway he repositioned all the windows to lie under their first floor equivalent. On the south side there had been large formal gardens, clearly shown in Dougharty’s perspective drawing contained in the estate maps of the 1730s, and Cecil swept all these away (including the farm buildings in front of the Hall) and landscaped the park in the fashion of the time – he would have had contact with Capability Brown when being brought up by his uncle 9th Earl of Exeter at Burghley House.
Following Henry and Emma’s divorce in 1791 the contents were all sold, and the house remained empty until Henry’s death in 1804, when Emma and her third husband, John Phillips, were able to regain possession. As the house had lain unoccupied for so long, many repairs had to be carried out at that time. Emma died in 1818 and left her second cousin, Thomas Shrawley Vernon (1759-1825), as the heir to her estate after the death of her husband John Phillips. Phillips married again and had two daughters in Hanbury before finally moving out in 1829. From then, the eldest son of Emma's heir, Thomas Tayler Vernon (1792–1835), was able to occupy it. His grandson Harry Foley Vernon (1834–1920) MP, was created 1st Baronet of Hanbury in 1885, and was succeeded by his son Sir (Bowater) George Hamilton Vernon (1865–1940), 2nd Baronet. Sir George led an unhappy life, separating from his wife Doris, and spending his last 10 years living with his secretary and companion Ruth Horton, who later changed her name by deed poll to Vernon. During this time the agricultural depression led to a reduction in rental income, and Hanbury Hall suffered a lack of care.
In poor health, Sir George Vernon took his own life in 1940. There were no further heirs to the Baronetcy which became extinct. Sir George's estranged wife was able to move back in after his death, dying there in 1962. In the meantime, negotiations had led to the National Trust having the reversion, and after making essential repairs on Lady Vernon’s death, the hall was let to tenants and opened to the public on a restricted basis. In recent years the hall has been managed more commercially and is now open daily.
London Walk - Farringdon, Barbican, Old Street, Shoreditch and Aldgate
A first-person perspective London walk tour from Farringdon to Aldgate, via Barbican, Old Street and Shoreditch - on a beautiful summer day.
SUPPORT ME ON PATREON -
GIVE A ONE-OFF TIP -
BROWSE MY GEAR LIST - (US) (UK)
FILMED: June 2018 (Weekday Late Afternoon/Early Evening) using iPhone 6
ROUTE MAP*:
ROUTE TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Farringdon Road
00:28 Cowcross Street
03:38 Charterhouse Street
04:06 Grand Avenue
04:57 Long Lane
07:50 Aldersgate Street
10:18 White Lyon Court
12:25 Beach Gardens
13:57 Ben Jonson Place
15:31 Cripplegate Street
16:20 Golden Lane
16:56 Beech Street
18:17 Chiswell Street
22:19 Finsbury Square
26:10 City Road
32:45 Old Street
34:19 Great Eastern Street
36:37 Old Street (Junction with: Charlotte Road 38:53)
41:47 Shoreditch High Street
47:26 Bethnal Green Road
49:05 Braithwaite Street
50:35 Wheler Street
52:19 Commercial Street (Junction with: Hanbury Street 54:16)
01:01:30 Whitechapel High Street
SIGHTS TIMESTAMPS:
01:00 Farringdon Underground Station
03:37 Smithfield Market
07:54, 10:42 Barbican Estate
08:21 Barbican Underground Station
13:31 Dolphin Fountain
13:54 Barbican Exhibition Halls
17:33 Barbican Cinemas
18:52 The Montcalm at The Brewery London City
22:48 Finsbury Square Garden
24:38 Alphabeta Building
27:43 HAC Armoury House
29:00 Wesley's Chapel and statue of John Wesley
29:48 Oliver’s Yard
31:22 Old Street Station
32:18 Old Street Roundabout (Tech City and Silicon Roundabout area)
33:26 Albert House
34:18 Splice - Picture House
35:57 Core246 & Kaes Mural
36:47 The Enchanted Garden
38:08 Redemption Bar Shoreditch
40:14 Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch
40:45 Shoreditch Town Hall - Performing arts theatre
42:23 St Leonard Church of England Church Shoreditch
47:22 Boxpark Shoreditch
49:06 Shoreditch High Street Station
50:32 Street art & graffiti
55:24 Old Spitalfields Market
55:54 Christ Church Spitalfields
01:01:12 Aldgate Place - Wiverton Tower
01:02:07 Aldgate East Station
01:02:08 Aldgate Tower
*** Spot the WATCHED WALKER Logo ***
In this video I’ve hidden FOUR (4) Watched Walker logos - they could be on buildings, vehicles or anything else, so keep an eye out for them!
NOTE: Audio may have been edited (where necessary) to reduce/eliminate background music from scene
◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇
I use affiliate links, which means that if you click on one and make a purchase, I'll receive a small commission.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
SIGN UP FOR YOUR OWN KO-FI GOLD ACCOUNT:
◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇
LET’S CONNECT!
Instagram:
Facebook:
Twitter:
Subscribe for weekly videos! -
◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇
*Route Map is approximate - as limited by available routes on Google Maps and can differ depending upon browser and device used for viewing
#Shoreditch #Barbican #London #OldStreet #LondonWalk #LondonWalks #CityWalks #WalkingTour #London #VideoWalks #Videography #WatchedWalker #iPhone