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John Baylis was born around 1868. His father Samuel Baylis is also a previous resident of Dandy Row. John and his wife Susan (who died in 1908) had five children, Sidney, Gertrude, Edith, Arthur and Bertram. For many years John worked at Worcester Porcelain as a china printer, although in some sources he has also...

Fanny Martin and her only child Henry William came to live at Dandy Row after her husband William died in 1891. Henry William Martin was born in 1887, and we have found that he attended St Peter’s School.  Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, ref: b899:749, BA9294/49(iii) Henry Martin died, aged 30, on 15th September 1917...

   This piece of land was purchased in 1792 from a Mrs Ann Gamidges widow, by Mr Fincher and the row was built soon after. In early years of the 19th century the top half of Frog Lane that was behind the city wall became High Timber Hill Street. The rest of the lane remained...

While sorting through a small collection I came across a photograph taken from Worcester Cathedral looking across the Worcester Porcelain works and surrounding area. It showed Worcester when the Bath Road took you to open Countryside. With thanks to Mr Gwillam for use of this photograph We were intrigued by the photograph and began trying...

Explore Your Archive Box from Archives & Records Association on Vimeo. The 2014 Explore Your Archive campaign will be running from 10th to 16th November and Worcestershire Archive Service is lending its voice to encourage the nation to engage with and value the archives that make up our national treasures.  Taking inspiration from the first...

This week’s Treasure is a watercolour, which has been chosen by Carol Wood, Archive Assistant: This watercolour was found in the front of one of the design sketch books created by Phillip Grazebrook, an architect from Hagley. His sketch books are full of pencil drawings of decorative features and designs.  A number of these are...

Here is the second instalment of Emma Heatherley’s post detailing her time at WAAS on a university work experience placement: I spent a lot of time working with the User Services team on level two of The Hive, mainly on the ‘Explore the Past’ desk shadowing the Archivists and Archive Assistants as they carried out different roles...

Over the last few weeks Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service has had the pleasure of hosting a 100 hour work experience placement for Emma Heatherley, a student from Newman University, Birmingham. During her time here Emma had the chance to get an insight into the wide range of roles that take place behind the scenes in...

This week’s Treasure has been chosen by David Everett, one of our long-serving regular customers and a member of the Friends of Worcestershire Archives. David came across the following item nestled amongst the records of Stone parish whilst undertaking research in the Original Archive Area at The Hive. The particularly ghoulish illustrations that accompany these documents make them quite fitting for...

As we celebrate Halloween and gorge ourselves on chocolate and sweets, the idea of all-pervading evil seems a long way away. But in the past this wasn’t the case. In the medieval and post-medieval periods, there was a real belief in evil, witches and demons. It was felt that they could attack you, your household,...