Lich Street News Today

GHOST hunters around here are seriously spoilt for choice, because Worcestershire is home to any number of paranormal personalities.

SOME more snippets today from the ever growing Worcester City History and Heritage Calendar, which aims to record an important local event for every…

THERE’S no doubt Worcester has lost a lot of historical gems over the years and some have been much grieved over, but a couple that slipped away…

IT was, without much doubt, one of the worst examples of civic planning ever to be inflicted on Worcester. To borrow a Royal phrase – ie the words of Prince Charles – the multi-storey car park in  Friar Street is like a carbuncle on the face of the city’s most authentic medieval thoroughfare. Because it was slipped in during the wholescale redevelopment of the adjoining area in the 1960s, possibly the brains at the time thought no one would notice. And in a sense they were right, b...

IF you find yourself sitting on a summer’s evening enjoying a quiet coffee on Worcester’s Cathedral Square and hear a strange noise, it might…

NOT a lot of people may know this, but Worcester can lay a very decent claim to being the oldest inhabited settlement in the UK. Its history stretches back around 5,000 years and even as recently as the late 1600s it was the largest town in the Midlands. Back then Birmingham was a market town half the size, so too was Gloucester, while Warwick and Lichfield were considerably smaller still. In 1678 Worcester had a population of more than 10,000, which also put Nottingham (7,000) and Leiceste...