Hartshill. Tippet's Quarry
Tippett's quarry and railway, Hartshill. 1910s
Hartshill. Unveiling of War Memorial
Unveiling of Hartshill War memorial. 1921
Hartshill. Village Green
Hartshill Green, with Michael Drayton's house and the Stag & Pheasant public house. 1900s
Michael Drayton, Poems, 1610 - title page, A1r.
Drayton: the other Warwickshire poet well-known in Shakespeare's time.
Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill in Warwickshire and often visited Clifford Chambers, a village close to Stratford. ...
Michael Drayton, Polyolbion, 1613 - 13th Song, p. 213
Warwickshire, and Shakespeare's ‘merrie meeting’.
According to John Ward, writing in the 1660s, Shakespeare had a 'merrie meeting' with Drayton, and the playwright Ben Jonson in 1616, ...
Michael Drayton, Polyolbion, 1613 - title page.
Drayton: the other Warwickshire poet: a friend of Shakespeare.
Drayton's most well-known poem Polyolbion (1613) comprises thirty 'songs' which form a survey of England in verse couplets. Between 1597 ...