Monarch's way - some of Worcester's old buildings.

Leaving the well-tended houseboats of Worcester's Diglis Basin behind, ...

...we walked along the canal until we saw these on a bridge.

They were the sign to show we were by the Commandery, a museum dedicated to the Civil War

It was closed, but the windows looked interesting

 The plaque on the bridge wall explains the context

This was what was on the bridge: a modern interpretation of helmets, shields and pikestaffs 

We went along Friar Street, looking for the King's House, where Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester.

One house had an inset panel of wattle and daub to show what the buildings were like under their top layer of plaster. (Wattle is the wood, daub is a mixture of mud, clay, horsehair and dung)

There were lots of timbered houses all along the street

Still we looked, and they kept on coming! 

We began to think we must have missed it.

Eventually, though, we found King Charles House. Charles II hid here for a while after the battle, but it was soon besieged by Cromwell's troops, so he had to make a quick exit out of the back!

The plaque commemorates the event

The sign at the start of the Monarch's Way explains its origin