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Thursday, 28 August 2008
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This Month's Top Five Interesting Facts
One.
Worcester City is
known as the Faithful City as it was one of the last cities to be loyal to King Charles II. The
Commandery now a Museum was the headquarters for the King in the last battle of the English Civil War
in 1651.
Two.
The Malvern Hills inspired
Sir Edward Elgar to compose many
of
his great pieces of music.
Three.
Berrow’s
Worcester Journal is the World’s oldest
surviving newspaper. It has been continually published each week for over 300 years. Most back copies are now kept bound
in Worcester City Library.
Four.
Beoley
village church, near Redditch, was where
Shakespeare’s skull was hidden for 50 years during the 18th century after it had been stolen from his
grave in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Five
When
C.S. Lewis found a Victorian gas lamp
burning in the middle of a wood he was so intrigued that he wrote about it in his phantasmal “Tales
of Narnia”. Amazingly the same street lamps are still in use today and can be seen around the Wyche in Malvern.
