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I guess that if you didn't know how to spell "closed" and if you sounded it out, you might spell it the same way that it is spelled here.
Photo by Ethan
Learning target: "I can spell words with scrib/scrip roots." We also use these words for vocabulary so they understand the meanings as well. :-)
The Postcard
A postally unused Valentine's postcard bearing a 60's image of Broadway. Although the card was not posted, the back of the card bears the message:
"Cornerways
Long Compton
Friday 27/8/71.
Darling Hol,
I do hope all is well and you are
making progress and will soon
be home again. I should love to
be able to come in and see you.
I hope you liked the jellies.
I know you had flowers from Hilda
and Eddie.
Am still doing lots of dashing
around in the car, not much walking.
They are taking me to Pam's next
Monday. I don't look forward to the
journey.
I expect to be going home Sep 7th.
I feel I have been away ages from
Tankerton.
Reg rang me up this evening. I miss
him.
Will write from Pam's dear.
Cheerio,
God bless you dear.
Your loving Con xx"
Broadway, Worcestershire
Broadway is a large village within the Cotswolds. Its population was 2,540 in the 2011 census, a small increase on the 2,496 in the 2001 census. It is situated in the far southeast of Worcestershire and very close to the Gloucestershire border, midway between the towns of Evesham and Moreton-in-Marsh. It is sometimes referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds".
Broadway village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment. The "broad way" is the wide grass-fringed main street, centred on the Green, which is lined with red chestnut trees and honey-coloured Cotswold limestone buildings, many dating from the 16th. century.
Broadway is known for its association with the Arts and Crafts movement, and is situated in an area of outstanding scenery and conservation. The wide High Street is lined with a variety of shops and cafes, many housed in listed buildings.
The village also featured in the 2018 video game Forza Horizon 4.
History of Broadway
Broadway is an ancient settlement whose origins are uncertain. There is documentary evidence of activity in the area as far back as Mesolithic times.
In 2004, the Council for British Archaeology's Worcestershire Young Archaeologists' Club found evidence of early occupation. Their fieldwork uncovered a large amount of Roman and medieval domestic waste and, most importantly, a large amount of worked Mesolithic flints, raising the possibility that the site might have been a stopping point for hunter-gatherers.
This work makes the known history of the village to be over 5,000 years and so may be evidence of one of the first partially settled sites in the United Kingdom.
Broadway gained the name Bradsetena Gamere (Broad Village) around the 9th. century and underwent a number of changes until the modern spelling ‘Broadway’ became common usage in the 16th. century.
By the 11th. century the village was already well-established and apparently thriving. It is listed in the Domesday Book as part of the land holdings of the Church of St. Mary of Pershore.
Broadway continued to prosper, becoming a borough by the 13th. century. For Broadway this marked a considerable departure from the entirely peasant community that had existed in former times, though the following two centuries saw it decline in the wake of the Black Death.
Its fortunes were revived during the late 16th. century after the Dissolution of the Monasteries relieved Pershore Abbey of ownership in 1539. The Crown sold the Manor of Broadway in 1558. There followed three centuries of almost unbroken growth, during which the population increased to about five times its Elizabethan level.
As in other Cotswold towns, wealth was based on the wool and cloth trade. In the first half the 19th. century Broadway was part of a short-lived Cotswolds silk industry, centred on Blockley, with a water-powered silk mill.
By around 1600 the village had become a busy stagecoach stop on the route from Worcester to London. The village provided all the services that might be needed, including grooms, places of refreshment and extra horses for the steep haul up Fish Hill. As a result, there were once as many as 33 public houses in Broadway compared to the three which exist today.
The road between Evesham and the summit of Fish Hill became a toll-road as a result of legislation dated 1728. Tolls were collected at Turnpike House, which can be found (now renamed Pike Cottage) in the Upper High Street.
However, the introduction of the railways in Britain in the mid-19th. century reduced the passing trade on which Broadway relied. Travel by stagecoach stopped almost immediately with the opening of the railway in Evesham in 1852.
Stripped of its role of staging post, Broadway became a backwater; a haven of peace and tranquillity. Victorian artists and writers were drawn to the village's calm, and the famous Arts and Crafts movement made its home in the area. The artists and writers to whom Broadway became home included Elgar, John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, J. M. Barrie, Vaughan Williams, William Morris, Mary Anderson and American artist and writer, Francis Davis Millet.
In 1912 Millet boarded the RMS Titanic in Cherbourg, France, as a first class passenger, heading to Washington via New York. He died in the sinking of the Titanic aged 65, and is commemorated by a memorial in St Eadburgha's Churchyard, Broadway.
In 1932 Millet's son Jack donated £120 to St Eadburgha's Church for the construction of lychgates in his father's memory at the churchyard.
Broadway is thought (by Sir Steven Runciman (1903–2000), a Cambridge historian who knew Benson well) to have been the model for a fictional Elizabethan village in the Cotswolds, Riseholme, the home of Lucia in the novels of E. F. Benson, before she moved to Tilling (based on Rye in East Sussex).
The arrival of the motor-car at the turn of the 20th. century, and the advent of popular tourism, restored Broadway's vitality, placing it now among the most frequently visited of all Cotswold villages.
In 1934 J. B. Priestley published his book English Journey, a travelogue in which he re-visits areas of the Cotswolds, including Broadway. He described the Cotswolds as:
"The most English and the least spoiled
of all our countrysides. The truth is that
it has no colour that can be described.
Even when the sun is obscured and the
light is cold, these walls are still faintly
warm and luminous, as if they knew the
trick of keeping the lost sunlight of
centuries glimmering about them."
The war memorial on the village green, dating from 1920, marks the deaths of local individuals who died fighting in the Great War and World War II.
Broadway takes its name from the wide main street, now High Street (one of the longest in England). By the 18th. century, it was a toll-road and a prominent stagecoach stop. In the beginning the ‘broad way’ probably began as a drove road and may be unusually wide because of the two small streams that used to run each side of the main street; people built on either side of the brooks, and a road formed down the middle.
In the winter, the mud from the road was piled up, and in the summer, grass grew on the piles; these verges still remain today. Water used to flow down from the hills and straight through the village then in later years the streams were mostly hidden inside underground pipes, only emerging at occasional ‘dipping’ points. Nowadays, the streams are almost entirely invisible.
Broadway in Modern Times
Today, Broadway is a centre for arts and antiques and serves as a natural base from which to explore the Cotswolds or see the horse racing during the busy Cheltenham Gold Cup week. Tourism is important; a reputation as a gateway to the Cotswolds and the many well-preserved buildings attract numerous visitors.
The village is well-served with hotels, including the Broadway Hotel, Russell's "A restaurant with rooms", the 1600's Cotswold inn the Lygon Arms, a caravan site, holiday cottages, bed and breakfast lodges, old pubs including the Swan Inn and Crown & Trumpet, shops, restaurants and tea rooms.
Local attractions include the Gordon Russell Museum (celebrating the work of the 20th.-century furniture maker Sir Gordon Russell MC), the Ashmolean Museum Broadway displaying objects from the 17th. to the 21st. centuries in 'Tudor House' a former 17th.-century coaching inn, the 65-foot (20 m) high Broadway Tower on its hilltop site in the Broadway Tower Country Park, Snowshill Manor (owned by the National Trust), and, for the many ramblers, the Cotswold Way.
Jordan Vetter, freshman in materials engineering, waits his turn during the Kaleidoquiz On-Air Spelling Bee in Carver Hall Saturday, March 3. Vetter represented his team My Bologna Has a First Name It's B-A-C-O-N and was one round away from the final round when he misspelled his word. Photo: Kait McKinney/Iowa State Daily
Twenty contestants participated in the 9th Vicenza Elementary School and Middle School Spelling Bee Championship sponsored by the Vicenza PTSA at the VES/VMS Multipurpose Room Jan. 30.
After the award ceremony, Spelling Bee participants enjoyed sharing a piece of cake with their teachers, principals, family and friends.
Photo by Laura Kreider/USAG Italy PAO
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This has been outside B-road at Aylesbury depot since it opened in 1991 and hardly gets noticed.
Not as bad as the spelling on the Metropolitan line that i noticed a couple of months ago, but at least they got rid of their mistake!
I spotted this at work today.
Someone needs a proofreader: Three spelling mistakes in just one tiny sign!
There were 2 productions of "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Fringe this year. I don't know which one this was.
Tori Spelling speaking with attendees at the 2018 Arizona Ultimate Women's Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
The main stand at Holker Street, home to Conference North football club Barrow. The stand opened in 1998. It has about 1,000 seats and replaced a wooden structure dating from 1912. Barrow, formed in 1901, have played at Holker Street since 1909, and the venue staged League football between 1921 and 1972. Under a naming rights deal, the ground is known as the Furness Building Society Stadium.
Admission: free (press comp - should've been £13). Programme: free (44 pages, press comp - should've been £2.50). Attendance: 1,160.
Tori Spelling speaking with attendees at the 2018 Arizona Ultimate Women's Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Schweinfurt Elementary Students prepare for the 2014 Spelling Bee. Photo courtesy of Schweinfurt PAO
Diana took this photo of me trying to spell CATS with the red string for the kitties. Now I find it is the last photo I have of me and Kita and Taj and I like this photo so much. I have waited all week until Furry Friday to tell you something I discovered that last night at Diana's home with the cats. She bought them caviar as a treat! I will never worry about them (though I do miss them a lot) knowing about the caviar!