Firs Elgar's Birth Place Museum (National Trust), The

On 2nd June 1857, this early 19th century Worcestershire cottage was the Birthplace of Edward Elgar. His father was then an itinerant piano tuner, church organist and amateur violinist. His mother, a farmer's daughter, who wanted above all things a country life for her children. Three older children had been born to them in Worcester and there would be three more when they returned. Edward was the only child to be born in Broadheath.