I’ve too many photos of Evesham to squeeze into one post. Any more than ten and I bore myself, and besides, the pub is my last Worcestershire tick and deserves its own post.
I was intrigued to hear that Kidderminster legend (he once ate two Aggborough cottage pies at half time) Life After Football hadn’t been, but it really is a world apart from gritty Kiddy with its black and white beams and famous Abbey.
Is that an upside-down Bass sign ?
But is it posh ?
A look at the battered tourist map tells the truth.
This is a working town, fallen on hard times since the Great Asparagus Crash of 1988.
Still plenty of history,
including a mysterious War Memorial marking the end of the Great War as 1920.
In 2015 I took Dad on a tour of the National Trust Gardens round here and another old boy told us why it says 1920. But I forget now.
The pedestrianised High Street looks a bit like Ashford (Kent), but Evesham has a bit more class than that, and a nicer Spoons, where I spent those coppers I’d saved in the last pub.
The clock struck two, and I set off to beat the crowds to my last Worcestershire micro.
It wasn’t easy…
retiredmartin 
Possibilty some poor local sods were part of the Western forces sent to aid the White Russians in the civil war.
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Excellent suggestion. Wiki says some regard the final point as 1921 but 1920 is odd.
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Spot on, Scott: “The inscription on the memorial gives 1920 as the date of the end of the war, as soldiers from the Worcestershire Regiment went on to fight in Russia where peace was not declared until 1920.” http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=1180
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Oh, so Scott IS right, for a change.
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My comments are always correct. Rarely relevant, seldom meaningful perhaps, but still…..
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Some first rate photos today, Martin. Lovely buildings, autumn skies, war memorial, Jim Capaldi woz here, and a croque monsieur in ‘Spoons. I’m struggling to see any lacings on that glass, though.
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Lacings fade in Spoons quicker than in Proper Pubs.
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Oh, and thanks Will. Glad I posted them and resolved that WWI question.
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The war against the Ottoman Empire didn’t formally end until the Treaty of Sevres in 1920.
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Yes, but there were treaties signed after that one, weren’t there.
Would any British soldiers have been fighting in 1920 ?
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I don’t think the British involvement in Russia was technically part of WW1, more of an intervention in the Russian Civil War. If we’re being really legalistic, WW1 didn’t end until 31 August 1921, being the date of the Order in Council mandated by the Termination of the Present War (Definition)Act 1918. Don’t know if any British troops were involved by then.
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I think my definition would have been based on British involvement in combat, and I guess if troops were redeployed rather than coming home in 1918 they’d have felt that was a continuation of “The Great War”. Genuinely interesting, thanks Bill.
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