Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court

Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court is now on-line, so your need to investigate old serious crimes can be satisfied. There's a good search facility, and fortunately the only ancestor I could find was a policeman there as a witness.

Worcestershire & Dudley Historic Churches Trust

Worcestershire & Dudley Historic Churches Trust has an excellent site with fascinating historic pictures of many Worcestershire churches. The picture shows Broadwas Church.

Victoria County History of the County of Worcester

You no longer have to go down to the History Centre to see the Victoria County History for Worcester. It's on the Internet, the whole text and pictures. A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 | British History Online is the link for the volume with City of Worcester, but the other geographical volumes (2 and 3) are available too.

British Pathe Limited

British Pathe Limited have made all of their newsreels available on line, with free short previews downloadable as long as you register. I found a bit about Don Bradman batting at Worcester.

Domesday Book : Britain's finest treasure

Domesday Book | Britain's finest treasure is now available on line from the National Archives. There is a charge for looking at facsimiles of pages, but there is a great deal to look at free. Including a count-the-animals game!

BBC - Hereford and Worcester - - Voices 2005

This has been around for a time, but I've only just discovered it. Local people talk about local language.
BBC - Hereford and Worcester - - Voices 2005
It's available for everywhere in Britain, with quizzes, articles and comment opportunities. Kept me amused for an entire episode of Inspector Lynley.

Beginners' Latin

Beginners' Latin is a free course from the National Archives, which teaches you the Latin of official documents, rather than the Latin you may have learnt at school.
Their site also has guides to Local History Sources, Family History, and Reading old handwriting (Paleography).

Village of Eckington in Worcestershire

Village of Eckington in Worcestershire has details of the Flower Festival and Open Gardens and Holy Trinity Church

parishmouse

parishmouse is being updated every day with material culled from old directories and other sources about the West Midland Counties. Well I think it is all West Midlands. Spend a little time with it. Its interface seems quirky to begin with, but I can see the point of it. Rather than a bland home page telling you the history of the project, it shows you the latest relevant material first, throwing you into reading the text. Addictive of course, especially since I had been searching for something completely different when I ran across it, then spent two hours reading.

Droitwich Canals

Droitwich Canals Trust have an interesting page about the history of the two canals - The Droitwich Barge Canal from Droitwich to the River Severn at Hawford and the Droitwich Junction Canal, which links the town to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. I walked part of the Barge Canal yesterday as part of a (long) walk from Mitre Oak to Worcester. As long as it hasn't rained recently, the canal is easily walkable.

The Modern Antiquarian

"Welcome to The Modern Antiquarian website, based on Julian Cope's epic guidebook of the same name. Since launching in March 2000ce, the site has grown to be a massive resource for news, information, images, folklore & weblinks on the ancient sites across the UK & Ireland, thanks to the remarkable efforts of all those who contribute."

Try a postcode search from your home. Mine came up with 9 sites, including dozens of photographs, and an hour's fascinating reading. There's no need to register to do this, only to add your own photos and text.

Worcester Vista

Here's a good collection of short articles, including memories, descriptions and local observations. It covers the area around Worcester, and comes from the pen (no, probably the keyboard and camera) of Basil Drinkwater. Good work, Basil!

Cornucopia

Cornucopia, an online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries. Whether you are interested in painters or politicians, dinosaurs or space travel, the Romans or the Victorians, Cornucopia can tell you what is available and where to see it.

Archenfield Archaeology - Worcester

Archenfield Archaeology have been busy in Worcester these last few years. You can see some reports here. I liked the Hadley Porcelain article best. The photo is of the Hadley Works in Diglis in 1901.

Worcester City Museums Web Site

Worcester City Museum features in our programme for September 2005, so I thought you might like this link to their site, illustrated by Young's map of Worcester 1779

Geograph

Geograph British Isles is a site which seeks pictures, at least one from each grid square. A search for Worcester gives 3724 images, or it did when I tried a few minutes ago. Yet there grid square I tried hasn't got a picture yet, so I'll try to be first.

A2A - Access to Archives | Home

I came across this reference in the U3A Signpost newsletter.

A2A - Access to Archives
The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
A2A does not yet offer a full description of all the archives in England, but it is regularly updated, so revisit often for newly-included catalogues.
Please note that our URL will be changing soon to http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a

Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar - Web site of The Elgar Society, Elgar Birthplace and Elgar Foundation deserves a mention as the authoritative place for information on old Eddie.

Worcester News

The Worcester News (the new name for the Worcester Evening News) Website on Worcester news and Worcester sport information gateway brought to you by this is Worcestershire has an archive search, which not only helps you with news stories from the last few years, but also indexes Michael Grundy's wonderful articles about local history.

Ride a Cock-horse (Harpers.org)

Here's the origin of the mythical animal the Cock Horse, best known frok the nursery rhyme. Nothing local about it, although I found it because it has Worcester in it as a surname.A Cock-horse (Harpers.org)