On Bore Street for many years Osborne was the only dedicated place to shop for toys and cycles in the 70’s. I can remember visiting the shop many times looking for boxes of Betta Bilda.
Opened on the 6th July 2013 specialising in family portraits. Closed in 2017/18. Planning permission gain for a change of use to a restaurant in May 2018
Elias was born on 23 May 1617 in Breadmarket Street only a few metres away from the birthplace of Samuel Johnson. His mother, Anne, was the daughter of a wealthy Coventry draper, Anthony Bowyer. His father, Simon Ashmole...
The Castle Inn was on Market Street for over one-hundred and fifty years before closing in 1963. The location has become home to the local Oxfam shop. The Tudor make over on the front of the building occurred sometime after 1900. Postcards...
Oxfam is based in the mock tudor building on Market Street. The charity shop has been selling donated items in the city since opening in the former Castle Inn in the 1970’s.
Erasmus was born in 1731 at Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the youngest of seven children. In 1756 Erasmus moved to Lichfield to establish a medical practice. He continued to live in the city until 1781.Erasmus came up with the...
The Donegal House clock sits proudly on the front of the grade II building and was donate to the citizens of Lichfield by Mrs M A Swinfen Broun in November 1928. With the exception of the internal workings the clock was restored in...
The ABC Regal on Tamworth Street was designed in an art deco style by Birmingham architect Harold Seymour Scotts and built in the 1932. It became Lichfield’s second cinema and competition for St. James’s Hall in Bore Street and...