Queens Hospital
One of the delights of this website is rescuing items of historic interest in the nick of time and digitally restoring them so that they…
Burton History (from 1760) 1770 – Grand Trunk Canal reached Burton 1777 – William Bass bought brewery (High Street) 1778 – Robert Peel opened his…
Raft Race
The Burton Technical College Rag Magazine In local history, this refers to the charity fundraising magazine produced by the students’ union at Burton Technical College…
The Burton Statutes Fair is an 800-year-old annual tradition in Burton upon Trent that started as a medieval hiring fair and evolved into a modern…
Several old buildings can still be found dotted around the present day Queen’s Hospital campass. Built in the early 1880s, they are in fact surviving remnants of the Belvedere Workhouse…
Belvedere Workhouse Site In 1880, construction began of a new larger workhouse to accommodate 550 inmates at a site to the north-west of the town…
A number of requests Burton baths Swimming In 1870 comprised of a public shed on Ox Hay for the use of swimmers in the river…
The Waterloo Tower, standing in what is known as Waterloo Clump, is without doubt Burton’s most prominent landmark and can be seen from many miles…