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  • 22nd April 2021
Mr and Mrs Weisz – Titanic Passengers & Members of the Bromsgrove Guild of Art

Mr Leopold and Mrs Mathilde Weisz – Second-class Passengers Second class passengers Mr. Leopold Weisz and his wife Mrs. Mathilde Françoise Weisz travelled together on the Titanic, not as tourists, but to emigrate to Canada where Leopold had already been working and intended to continue. Early life According to his gravestone, Leopold Weisz was born...

  • 4th July 2016
Work begins to list the records of the Bromsgrove Guild

Worcestershire Archive Service holds a substantial collection of records from the Bromsgrove Guild – a collective of talented craftsmen who came from all over the world.  Walter Gilbert, a talented artist in design and decorative works, worked as the art master at Rugby Technical School. In 1898 he became headmaster of Bromsgrove School of Art and...