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...
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...
There has been a cafe on this corner in Lichfield for over sixty years. City Corner Cafe opened in August 2018 and is a family friendly cafe, offering a range of food and drinks.
Set to open in late August 2018 the Derby based Birds bakery have over fifty shops spread across the UK. The shop had been home to Holland & Barretts for many years before becoming a bakery.