The Great Flood (AD 1900)

Towards the end of December, 1900, torrential rain fell across the Midlands  and did not spare the Arrow valley. The "Alcester Chronicle" details the floods  which followed "at the dawning of the 20th century".

Needle Making (AD 1677)

The date when needlemaking came to the area is unknown but there is  documentary evidence showing its presence in the last quarter of the 17th  century: Richard Badson, needlemaker, left Studley for Alcester in 1677(VCH) and  Coughton parish registers show needlemakers there and at Sambourne at the same  time. 

Alcester in the Civil War (AD  1643)

Alcester, like many other market towns across England was affected by the  English Civil War in many ways. This article explains Alcester role in this  critical part of England's history.

The Plague in Alcester! (AD  1348)

The popular memory is of the mid 14th century Black Death and the period  following the plague of London in 1665.

Roman Alcester (AD 47)

The Romans chose Alcester as a good place to build a fort, overlooking two  rivers - The Arrow and The Alne - and their Roman road of Icknield Street which  stretched hundreds of miles from the North East to the South West of England.

Roman Alcester (AD 47)

We do not know the exact location of the centre of Roman Alcester at the time  when the settlement was growing into a major market town but there is evidence  which enables us to say something about its origins