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rFAL OF BELLS

... of the battles commemoration there la to be a contlnuotia peal of Dells from the town's beli tower during the afternoon. It hoped that on that day the 8.8 C will show a television film in which General Bir Brian Horrocks will describe the Battle of Evesham ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1965
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 109 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PAUL WEBSTER

... Naturally, as I come from Evesham where arrangements to honour Simon on the 700th anniversary of his death in the Battle of Evesham in 1265 are in hand, I was interested to hear why Simon was not so honoured in his birthplace as at Evesham, Kenilworth and Leicester ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1962
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 115 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

-COUNCILLOR

... Archbishop of Canterbury, to lnauguate three months of celebration commemorating de ktontfort's death in the Battle of Evesham in 1265. Mr. J. Hodson. Evesham Borough Surveyor, drew up plans for an obelisk. which a meeting of the council's Simon de Montfort S ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1965
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... about the celebrations in Evesham next year of the 700th anniversary of the death in the Battle of Evesham of Simon de Montfort. Cards will be sent to all the amateurs known to Mr. Harry Barnett. of Lichfield Avenue. Evesham, who has been transmating ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 114 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Flowers mark seven centuries old battle

... Flowers mark seven centuries old battle 14WESHAMS most poignant chapter in history. the 1265 Battle of Evesham and the death of Simon de Montfort. is symbolised with flowers at Evesham Horticultural Society's annual three-day show which opened on Saturday ...

Published: Monday 30 August 1965
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 417 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

800 YEARS AGO

... scene showed the founding of the Castle in 1120. The second scene depicted Simon de Montfort riding off to fight the Battle of Evesham in 1265 and the subsequent siege of the Castle. A few years later, in 1279, came the picturesque revival of the Round ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1939
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

treasures poured in

... treasures poured in A TRUMPET said to have been used at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, is one of several hundred ancient and modern items in the Chipping Campden ex- hibition of home treasures at the Town Hall. The exhibition idea came from Mr. P. A. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1967
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 146 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

History

... of The Mount, site of an 11th century Norman castle built by the de Montfort family and probably destroyed after the Battle of Evesham in 1245. At its foot the little River Alne tinkles along part of the boundary between the town's two parishes Henley ...

Published: Tuesday 18 October 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CIVIC RECEPTION

... another Z2oo—so would a play. entitled Tragedy o/ Evesham, specially written for the occasion. £2,000 starts new Battle of Evesham Birmingham Post Evesham Correspondent THERE is growing opposition in Evesham to the town council's proposal to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 685 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Besieged

... her husband Simon de Montfort the royal army successfully laying siege to it after his brother-in-law's death at the Battle of Evesham in 1265 Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster next held it, his heir losing head and castle to Edward 11, who by a twist ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1958
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 124 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

ASTLEY. DEATH OF MAJOR SPENCER BYNG ASTLEY

... family were seated at Astley Castle in the middle half of the twelfth century,.und Thomas de Astley, a baron, fell at the battle of Evesham. He was an ancestor of William Lord Astley, and of the late Major Spencer Bvng Astlev, who was an uncle of the present ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1915
Newspaper: Kenilworth Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

just poured

... just poured TRUMPET said to ' have been used at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, is one of several hundred ancient and modern items in the Chipping Campden exhibition of home treasures at the Town Hall. The exhibition idea came from Mr. F. A. Holland. clerk ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1967
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 12 | Tags: none