Magic Lantern Slide: The Shakespear Hotel, Stratford on Avon, 14th Century
This slide by William Weaver Baker shows the Shakespeare Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon. It is one of three slides Weaver Baker produced in Stratford relating to Shakespeare. The sign on the right of the image states this part of the hotel was ‘Ye Five Gables’, which was built in the early sixteenth century. The other part of the hotel, just visible to the left of the image, suggests the photo was taken prior to 1920 when the front was rebuilt. The image also provides a more accurate account of how the windows at the top of the gables would have looked when it was originally built, compared with how it looks today.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/143
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: The Shakespear Hotel, Stratford on Avon, 14th Century
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'STRATFORD on AVON HOTEL' on top edge; handwritten 'The Shakespear Hotel. Stratford on Avon. 14th C' on mount
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
