So I made appointments that same afternoon to view these two properties. We had selected a couple of properties in Bromsgrove that seemed promising, and the drive there was likely to be the easiest of any of the other locations on our list. But in which direction to strike out?īromsgrove is just 13 miles south of the university, connected by the A38, a route that crosses the city right by the university in Edgbaston. So I decided to take the afternoon off and go house viewing. It must have been the Wednesday of my first week at the university in April, a slack period with no lectures or practical classes scheduled. We quickly whittled around 500 down to a handful of fewer than fifty or so. We already had decided that we didn’t want to live in Birmingham itself.Īrriving back in the UK we encountered a very large pile of house specs waiting for us at Steph’s parents, and began to work our way through these, rejecting immediately any that did not meet our expected needs. And launch ourselves into the housing market.īefore we left Peru, we had asked Steph’s parents to contact on our behalf as many estate agents (realtors) as they could identify from locations in a wide arc from the west of Birmingham, south into Worcestershire, and southeast towards the Solihull area. Until we found somewhere to live permanently, Steph and Hannah stayed with her parents in Southend-on-Sea, while I settled into lecturing life at Birmingham. I’d just been appointed to a lectureship at The University of Birmingham, in the Department of Plant Biology, School of Biological Sciences. In March 1981, Steph, Hannah (almost three), and I returned to the UK after living more than eight years in Peru and Costa Rica. We chose Worcestershire-Bromsgrove in the northeast of the county to be specific (shown by the blue star on the map above)-more by chance than design.
My wife hails from Essex, east of London. I was born and raised in Cheshire and Staffordshire, some 70 miles to the north. Worcestershire is my home, but I’m not a native. Ethnically it’s mostly white British (>91%). The estimated population (in 2016) was a little under 600,000. Click on the map below to explore further. It has an area of 672 square miles, and is 38th out of 48 counties in size. While reading this post, why not listen to celebrated contralto Clara Butt sing, in this 1911 recording, one of Elgar’s most famous compositions, Land of Hope and Glory (written in 1902, with words by AC Benson).īounded on the north by the West Midlands and Staffordshire, to the northwest by Shropshire, Herefordshire to the west, Gloucestershire to the south, and Shakespeare’s county, Warwickshire to the east, Worcestershire is a mainly rural county in the English Midlands. But Worcestershire is also the birthplace (just outside Worcester) in 1857 of Sir Edward Elgar, one of the nation’s most renowned composers.
Where Worcestershire Sauce was first concocted.
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