This isn't summer 89, as the buses are liveried for 1984 or 1985.

View looking south, from west bank. College Hall is on the left, above the bridge, with other buildings that surround College Green.

By the 1860s the 140-year-old Guildhall was having problems with some of its stonework, plaster and timber work. The print is of one of the proposed designs for a new Guildhall (a la Birmingham or Manchester). A Report into the state of the Guildhall was prepared for the City Council in May 1867. A petition with hundreds of signatures was also presented to the Council - the petition was adamantly against the destruction of the Guildhall and asked for the building to be restored. The Guildhall was finally restored in 1878 - 1880. This print is probably from around 1870.

'I Taylor del et sculp' does refer to the artist and engraver.
'Del' means 'Delineavit' - he or she drew the original picture that the engraving is based on.
'Sculp' is 'Sculpsit' - meaning the person who engraved the picture onto the copper plate.
Date is after 1750 (when the railings were added).

J Ross, Sculptor. Date is after 1750 (when the railings were added).

Date is: 1st October 1860

The text below the engraving is as follows:
WORCESTER is generally suppos’d to have been built by the Romans, it having been known to them by the Names Branovium and Branogenium tho’ it has been long since call’d in Latin as it is now Wigornia. It was made the seat of a Bishop by Ethelred, King of the Mercians, who founded a Cathedral here. Boselus was the 1st Bp. [Bishop] who was consecrated An. [Anno] 680. This City was burnt An. [Anno] 1041 by K. [King] Hardicanute, the Inhabitants having kill’d his Tax gatherers. Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury An. [Anno] 1080 burnt the Suburbs and attack’d the City, but the Citizens behav’d with so much Conduct and Bravery that they defeated their Enemies making a terrible Slaughter of them and deliver’d themselves. In the Year 1113, it was almost destroy’d by an accidental Fire, the Castle entirely consum’d and the Roof of the Cathedral damag’d. In the Year 1202 , it was again burnt. It has been attack’d or beseiged and Suffer’d more or less in all the Civil Wars, as in that between K. [King] Stephen and the Empress Maud, the Barons against K. [King] John, the differences between the Houses of York and Lancaster, and lastly in that decisive Battle between K. [King] Charles 2nd and Cromwell, from all which disasters it always soon recover’d it’s selfe and continued for the most part as now in a flourishing condition. The City is a County of it’s selfe, the Government was formerly by two Bailiffs, two Aldermen, two Chamberlains and a Common Councel, until K. [King] James 1st gave them a Charter, since which they have a Mayor and Six Aldermen chosen out of 24 principal Citizens, two Chamberlains and a Sheriff are also Annualy elected, these are assisted by a Recorder, Town Clerk, two Coroners, and 48 Common Councell Men. The present Cathedral was built by St. Wulstan Bp. [Bishop] there of, about the Year 1084, but enlarged and improv’d by others his Successors. It hath ten Parish Churches. The Town Hall is a beautiful fine Structure, here is a handsome Work house, for the Support of Aged and infirm poor, and education of Childern to learning as well as work, near it is an Hospital for 12 poor Men, here are also 7 Alms houses well endow’d and three Grammar Schools. It’s Market days are Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, every Saturday for Six or Seven Months in the Year, there is kept a very remarkable and considerable Hop Market.

The text below the engraving is as follows:
WORCESTER is generally suppos’d to have been built by the Romans, it having been known to them by the Names Branovium and Branogenium tho’ it has been long since call’d in Latin as it is now Wigornia. It was made the seat of a Bishop by Ethelred, King of the Mercians, who founded a Cathedral here. Boselus was the 1st Bp. [Bishop] who was consecrated An. [Anno] 680. This City was burnt An. [Anno] 1041 by K. [King] Hardicanute, the Inhabitants having kill’d his Tax gatherers. Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury An. [Anno] 1080 burnt the Suburbs and attack’d the City, but the Citizens behav’d with so much Conduct and Bravery that they defeated their Enemies making a terrible Slaughter of them and deliver’d themselves. In the Year 1113, it was almost destroy’d by an accidental Fire, the Castle entirely consum’d and the Roof of the Cathedral damag’d. In the Year 1202 , it was again burnt. It has been attack’d or beseiged and Suffer’d more or less in all the Civil Wars, as in that between K. [King] Stephen and the Empress Maud, the Barons against K. [King] John, the differences between the Houses of York and Lancaster, and lastly in that decisive Battle between K. [King] Charles 2nd and Cromwell, from all which disasters it always soon recover’d it’s selfe and continued for the most part as now in a flourishing condition. The City is a County of it’s selfe, the Government was formerly by two Bailiffs, two Aldermen, two Chamberlains and a Common Councel, until K. [King] James 1st gave them a Charter, since which they have a Mayor and Six Aldermen chosen out of 24 principal Citizens, two Chamberlains and a Sheriff are also Annualy elected, these are assisted by a Recorder, Town Clerk, two Coroners, and 48 Common Councell Men. The present Cathedral was built by St. Wulstan Bp. [Bishop] there of, about the Year 1084, but enlarged and improv’d by others his Successors. It hath ten Parish Churches. The Town Hall is a beautiful fine Structure, here is a handsome Work house, for the Support of Aged and infirm poor, and education of Childern to learning as well as work, near it is an Hospital for 12 poor Men, here are also 7 Alms houses well endow’d and three Grammar Schools. It’s Market days are Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, every Saturday for Six or Seven Months in the Year, there is kept a very remarkable and considerable Hop Market.

"The South West Prospect Of The City Of Worcester" (Tinted Version) This print is by S and N Buck, 1732. It is on the dust jacket of 'The Book Of Worcester' by David Whitehead (Barracuda Books, 1976). The illustration has been cropped so that the text below is missing. However, the back of the dust jacket does have the text on the right hand side of the print, giving a key to the landmarks (spelling unaltered):
1. Claines; 2. St. John's; 3. Pitchcroft; 4. White Lady's; 5. The Bridge; 6. St. Clement's; 7. Berkleys Hospital;
8. The Water Engine; 9. All Saint's; 10. St. Nicholas; 11. The Key; 12. St. Andrew's; 13. St. Swithune's; 14. St. Martin's;
15. Town Hall; 16. St. Alban's; 17. The Bishops Pallace; 18. St. Helen's; 19. The Cathedral; 20. The College Schoole;
21. The Priory Gate; 22. St. Edgers Tower; 23. The County Gaole; 24. The Castle Hill; 25. Perry Wood; 26. St. Peter's;
27. The River Severn; 28. Digley Bowling Green.

"The South West Prospect Of The City Of Worcester" This print is by S and N Buck, 1732. It is on the dust jacket of 'The Book Of Worcester' by David Whitehead (Barracuda Books, 1976). The illustration has been cropped so that the text below is missing. However, the back of the dust jacket does have the text on the right hand side of the print, giving a key to the landmarks (spelling unaltered):
1. Claines; 2. St. John's; 3. Pitchcroft; 4. White Lady's; 5. The Bridge; 6. St. Clement's; 7. Berkleys Hospital;
8. The Water Engine; 9. All Saint's; 10. St. Nicholas; 11. The Key; 12. St. Andrew's; 13. St. Swithune's; 14. St. Martin's;
15. Town Hall; 16. St. Alban's; 17. The Bishops Pallace; 18. St. Helen's; 19. The Cathedral; 20. The College Schoole;
21. The Priory Gate; 22. St. Edgers Tower; 23. The County Gaole; 24. The Castle Hill; 25. Perry Wood; 26. St. Peter's;
27. The River Severn; 28. Digley Bowling Green.