In the 16th century, Stratford-Upon-Avon's Henley Street would have been a pretty nasty place, with waste and filth lining the streets. City records show that in 1529, John Shakespeare, a glove maker and William's father, was fined for leaving a pile of muck outside his home on Henley Street, establishing that Shakespeare was in all likelihood born in the home in the center of the frame at right.