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• Warwickshire Museums Digital Archives

Data copyright © Valeria Carullo, Marcia Reed, Worcestershire County Council unless otherwise stated

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
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Resource identifiers

• ADS Collection: 3370
• DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1076946
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Overview

The Charles Archive digital archive includes an extensive collection of high resolution photographs, slides, plans and drawings, relating to buildings across Worcestershire, held within the practice archive of F.W.B. 'Freddie' Charles (1912-2002) and Mary Charles (nee Logan) (1924-2005). The original archive is under the care of the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, a service of Worcestershire County Council. The Charles practice also worked in a number of other counties including Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire (including Coventry) and Birmingham and as such a number of other archive services, geographically relevant to the locations where the practice worked, care for original archive material.

The Charles Archive digital archive includes material related to buildings across Worcestershire, including its historic towns and Worcester City. Many of these buildings are nationally protected and registered on Historic England's National Heritage List for England (NHLE). Examples include the Grade I listed Tithe Barn at Bredon (List Entry Number 1319631), the Grade I listed Cruck Barn at Leigh Court (List Entry Number 1349245) and the Grade I listed Tithe Barn at Middle Littleton (List Entry Number 1350092). Others, while not nationally protected, are recognised as locally significant buildings on the Worcestershire County Council Historic Environment Record and Worcester City Historic Environment Record.

Where copyright for images in the archive is not held by Worcestershire County Council, it is clearly stated with a red watermark on the images.