Posted in Arts and Crafts, Cotswolds, Heritage on Feb 14th, 2012
William Morris (1834-1896) was a frequent visitor to Broadway during the 1880s. Morris, along with fellow Pre-Raphaelite artists, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, used Broadway Tower on top of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the village as a summer retreat. Morris began publishing poetry and short stories in 1856 and his poem ‘Love is enough’ [...]
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Posted in Cotswolds, Heritage on Feb 7th, 2012
Today is Charles Dickens Bicentenary Day. The day has seen celebrations in Portsmouth, where Dickens was born 200 years ago today, and across all corners of the globe. It is a day to remember Dickens’ connection with the colony of artists in the Cotswold village of Broadway. Broadway resident Fred Barnard illustrated nine Dickens volumes [...]
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Posted in Events, Gardens, Heritage on Feb 1st, 2012
Located about an hour’s drive from our cottages in Broadway, in rural Herefordshire, are the wonderful Laskett Gardens, the largest private formal gardens created in England since 1945. Sir Roy Strong and his late wife Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman passionately transformed a neighbouring 3 acre field surrounding their home into a series of stunning gardens including extensive herbaceous [...]
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We are delighted to announce that Broadway Manor Cottages has recently signed up to the ‘Our Land’ sustainable tourism initiative. The site, www.our-land.co.uk, aims to promote local sustainable tourism businesses such as ours that have a commitment to their local landscapes and communities. For further information about our environmentally friendly Cotswold holiday cottages in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding [...]
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Posted in Cotswolds, Heritage on Oct 5th, 2011
93 years ago, during the afternoon of Tuesday 27th August 1918, the Lifford Hall in the Cotswold village of Broadway was full to capacity for an afternoon of music and drama in aid of the Fund for the Relief of Belgian Artists. Arranged by the ‘celebrity’ Amercian stage actress and Broadway resident, Mary Anderson (de [...]
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