SHAKESPEARE is stepping out again in his home town.
The Mayor of Stratford upon Avon Tony Jackson has ‘reopened’ the Shakespeare Walking Tour of Stratford at Tudor World – where so many mayors once lived.
The Shakespeare Tour of Stratford, now in its 9th year, had been suspended for the last three-and-a-half months due to the pandemic.
The tour was an original creation of the team at Tudor World nearly a decade ago. They realised there was not a ‘Shakespeare’ character in Stratford – apart from once a year at the Birthday celebrations – and felt the town and its visitors would get a real kick out of meeting the great man who would guide them through his home town, relating his life and inspirations – all with much charm and wit of course.
The tour has gone from strength to strength, in particular with schools groups – with around 60,000 children having been inspired by the tour to learn more about the bard and his works.
“It will give everyone a real boost to meet the mayor and mayoress” said Tudor Wold curators Janet and John Ford, “which is especially appropriate as many mayors have lived in the building – Eleanore Florys Waldron (1956-57), her husband Thomas Noden Waldron 1938 – 1940, the ‘Shakespeare architect’ Edward Gibbs from 1870-1871 and John Woolmer 1677-8 and 1694-5.”
