- Bewdley, Bristol and the Slave Trade
The sugar, rum and tobacco that came up the Severn from Bristol were produced by enslaved people. The town's link, and the abolitionists who came from here.
- Tanning in Bewdley
Twelve tanneries in Tudor Bewdley, oak bark from the Wyre Forest, and pits that still turn up under the gardens.
- The Canal That Bypassed Bewdley
In 1771 the canal reached the Severn three miles downstream and made Stourport out of nothing. Bewdley did not refuse it. It was never coming.
- The Quays, the River Trade and the Merchants’ Houses
Trows from Bristol, packhorses to the Black Country, and the houses on Severnside that the money built.
- The Trades of Old Bewdley
Shermen, fletchers, trowmen and a salt peter man. What the parish registers reveal about how the town earned its living.
- The Wyre Forest and Bewdley
Deer for the Mortimers, oak for charcoal, bark for the tanneries and coal from bell pits. The working forest behind the town.
