Local History

Upton-upon-Severn’s amateur dramatics company, The Pepperpot Players, was first established by Martin and Anne Harker and Roger Corbett Milward in 1976 with a performance of Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Proposal’ in the Upton Church Rooms. The Pepperpot Players, whose plays, musicals, cabarets and pantomimes have been entertaining generations of audiences ever since at Upton upon Severn’s Memorial Hall which is the venue for weekly rehearsals and three major productions that are staged each year – a pantomime every February half-term with a play and a musical performed later in the year.

The Tudor House Museum houses a comprehensive collection of programmes, photographs, posters and newspaper reviews from 1976 to recent times with a list of participants who took part in a variety of roles both on stage and backstage so that family members can now search for relatives names on the Role of Honour!