Garrick House

... . The rebuilding of the Town Hall in 1767 led circuitously to one of the finest actors this country has ever seen, David Garrick, establishing a festival in honour of the Bard that is continued to this day. The Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations began as a ...

... and rained through the night. The wind was blowing a gale and there were lots of bangs and crashes. In the morning John and Garrick listened to the maritime forecast on the long wave radio and then went outside in the rain to have a strokey beard (neither ...

... then to Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter – 2 lovely little villages around a stream and then on to Broadway.  Went out to dinner at Margaret’s in the village of Radway.  She lives in the old school house next to the ...

... was now battling the plague, while I was feeling better better but still breaking out in coughing fits often. We came upon The Garrick, an old traditonal pub established back in 1870. We settled in, away from the spitting rain, and ordered up some grub. ...

... used for his writing. We then drove to Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire to spend the night.  We went out to the Garrick Inn for dinner, oldest pub in Stratford, and sat under low beams in a tudor style building.  Our accommodation was right ...

... .     In the evening, we headed out to the theatre, for a showing of "An Inspector Calls" at the Garrick Theatre. Honestly, the story was a little vague, but left everyone talking at the end. We were all trying to speculate who ...

... and rained through the night. The wind was blowing a gale and there were lots of bangs and crashes. In the morning John and Garrick (our second guide) listened to the maritime forecast on the long wave radio and then went outside in the rain to have ...

... not some other poor sap who wrote some stupid story, rather this guy was a top line bloke. In fact the name of the big guy was Garrick Utley. To me, that meant nothing, but apparently to everyone over the age of 50, it meant a lot. This old man had been a ...

... the origin of the Garden as well as its theatrical history. You'll get to explore the Actors' Church, Royal Opera House and the Garrick Club, where writers such as Charles Dickens would mingle with composers like Sullivan and actors such as Charles ...