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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine June 27th 1976
Stratford-upon-Avon is England’s biggest tourist trap outside London. A happy accident of birth more than 400 years ago now attracts a million and a half visitors each year – and £10 million of their money-to what would otherwise be an unremarkable town (pop. 19,000). This year, on Shakespeare’s birthday, THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE spent a day in Stratford, looking at the town as a shrine, as a theatrical setting, as a tourist centre and, simply, as a town. On the following pages we describe what happened in Stratford on that day, look at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the pomp and circumstance of the Birthday Celebrations, and, in Lifespan, examine some of the problems of a tourist town and what to do if you decide to go there
Contributors: Rosemary Atkins, Michael Bateman, Bruce Bernard, Edith Boyer, Bill Cater, Clive Crook, Hunter Davies, Alex Finer (Project Editor), Alain le Garsmeur, Philip Jones-Griffiths, Celia Haddon, Colin Jacobson, Colin Jones, Ken Lewis, Nicholas Mason, Derrik Mercer, David Montgomery, Patrick Nicholson, Tony Osman, Clay Perry, George Perry, Susan Raven, David Reed, Terry Seago, Roger Scruton, Edwin Taylor, Colleen Toomey, Christine Walker.
40 pages. This issue is in very good condition throughout. Some minor marks and creases on the cover
A great idea for a unique gift for a 50th Birthday or Anniversary
