EAW006900 ENGLAND (1947). The town, Evesham, 1947

water tanks. emergency water supply WWII

Factory Yard

Police station

Telephone exchange.

Robbins garage.

Sladden and Collier brewery

Prefabs.

Staites Avon nurseries from 1932 to 1995.

Crown Meadow football ground, Home of Evesham United FC (founded 1945) until1968/9

Mill Stream

Railway Hotel

Worcester Road

Briar Close

Evesham Railway Station (still open) Currently has just two platforms. Facing (below) the present (former Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway) station across the car park is the former Midland Railway station on the Ashchurch to Barnt Green Gloucester Loop Line, which closed to passenger traffic in June 1963 and completely a year later

High Street

Blind Lane

Sports pavilions

"Glover's Island" Normally not an island at all.

Railway Line. The line was closed in 1963. Bengeworth Station is off picture to the bottom left. The station was opened in 1864 by the Midland Railway and was closed in 1953. .

Workman Gardens

ARCHWAY TO SOUTH OF THE REAMINS OF WEST WALL OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF ABBEY

Church of St Lawrence Grade 2* listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 147475 One of two parish churches in the precinct of Evesham Abbey. The other is All Saints (q.v.). Late C15 with an early C16 S chapel. Much restored and partially rebuilt in 1837 to the designs of Harvey Eginton, following semi-dereliction. One of the two town centre churches which stand within the precinct of Evesham Abbey (the other is All Saints). This duality has never been fully explained, although All Saints' appears to have been the parish church for the east part of the town, St Lawrence's for the west. According to Pevsner, abbeys liked a parish church nearby, to relieve them of parish duties. Redundant since 1978 and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Church of All Saints. Grade 1 listed - English Heritage Building ID: 147474 Parish church mainly of C15 and C16, restored in 1874-76 by F. Preedy. All Saints is one of two parish churches in the precinct of Evesham Abbey. It has some C12 masonry in the west wall of the nave but is otherwise C14 and C15, with porch and chapel added c1505-10, at the expense of Abbot Clement Wych, last abbot of Evesham Abbey, Lichfield. There was a major re-ordering 1874-76 during restoration by Frederick Preedy (1820-98), architect of Worcester, although initial plans had been prepared by Barry & Sons of Liverpool. Apart from general repairs, they enlarged the chancel and added a new vestry and organ chamber, rebuilt the north aisle, and provided new seating. The south chapel was restored in 1895 (plaque inside building). The outer (choir) vestry was added in 1897 by R.A. Briggs.

The Bell Tower. Grade 1 listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 147476 Early C16. Built by Abbot Lichfield. Rises in 3 stages to 110 ft. Pierced by an archway with unfinished vaulting and is surmounted by openwork battlements, and pinnacles. Fine and very late example of Perpendicular style.

Bridge Street

Workman Bridge (referred to on old OS maps as Bengeworth Bridge) Grade 2 listed structure - English Heritage Building ID: 147403 1856. Built by Henry Workman, a public figure and former mayor, to replace the medieval bridge. Bengeworth is the town across the river, so the bridge has been referred by name related to its destination, and more recently, its builder.

River Avon