Worcester - Commandery Garden & Fort Royal Park - postcard by Littlebury c.1910s

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• Picture / Image:  Worcester - the Ancient Commandery - the Commandery Garden and the Fort Royal Park
• Publisher: Joseph Littlebury, the Commandery Series 
• Postally used: no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Commandery is a historic building open to visitors and located in the city of Worcester, England. It opened as a museum in 1977 and was for a while the only museum in England dedicated solely to the Civil Wars. The Commandery ceased to be a Civil War museum when it reopened to the public in May 2007, having undergone a year and a half of refurbishments and reinterpretation jointly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Worcester City Council, who own the building. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]

The Commandery has been used for many different purposes over the many years it has been around. These include: a church, a house, a monastic hospital, hotel, and a museum open to the public.

Present exhibits

In its current form, it displays six different periods of history, focusing on the characters and stories that affected The Commandery itself at those times. The periods covered are as follows:

The Medieval period, when the Commandery is said to have been founded (possibly 1085,[2] though it may have been up to two centuries later[3]). It served as an almshouse as well as a place of hospitality for pilgrims and other travellers and was most probably founded by the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the Knights Hospitaller, who named their administrative areas commanderies.

The Tudor period, when following the suppression in 1540 the Commandery became the residence of the Wyldes, a family of clothiers who remained in possession of it until 1785.

The Civil War, when the Commandery was used by Charles II's forces as headquarters during the Battle of Worcester.

The Georgian period, when after its sale by Thomas Wylde in 1785 the Commandery was split into several family homes.

The Victorian period, when the Commandery housed a pioneering school for the "blind sons of gentlemen".

The 1950s, when the Commandery was used as a printing factory by the Littlebury family.

The Commandery includes multimedia exhibits, interactive displays and children's activities.