WORCESTER’S historic role in the fight for liberty will be recognised with a ceremony at the city’s Whitehouse Hotel.
Mayor Coun Roger Knight, will unveil a special plaque to be placed on the Whitehouse Hotel, adjacent to the site of the old Hop Pole Inn, at 11am tomorrow (Thursday).
The plaque has been commissioned by the Civic Society, in conjunction with the Battle of Worcester Society and sponsored by Barry and Hilary Hansell.
In April 1786, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who were to become the second and third Presidents of the United States of America, spent time in Worcester while on an eight-day tour of English gardens and Civil War sites.
During their time in Worcester, Adams made his famous speech on Fort Royal Hill in which he berated his audience, saying: “Do Englishmen so soon forget the ground where liberty was fought for?
“All England should come in pilgrimage to this hill once a year.”
