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  • Sharon Matthews on Richard Allen’s Childhood Memories of Melbourne St

    15/08/2022
    My mother and her brothers lived in Melbourne Street, I think next to Says scrap yard - do you remember...

  • John Bowles on Miller Cine Company advert.

    16/05/2022
    My father George Bowles was partner with Ken Miller at premises in Barton Street John Bowles

  • Malcolm Westwood on Tredworth Road school harvest

    13/05/2022
    O dear... perhaps another memory failure!! Possibly not Mr Cullip....should read Mr Cullen? (It was 70 years ago!)

  • Dr Malcolm Westwood on Tredworth Road school harvest

    27/04/2022
    Correction.....the girl reading from the Bible could have been called 'Dorothy'-I'm not sure. It was a long while ago! Her...

  • Dr Malcolm Westwood on Tredworth Road school harvest

    27/04/2022
    The two children reading are Marjory(?) Hathaway and Malcolm Westwood. They both lived in Tredworth Road.

  • Anthony Burford on A Walking Tour of Barton Street

    26/04/2022
    Nice memories, I was also born in 225 Barton Street in 1946. It was next door to the church, which...

  • Clive Martin on Gloucester’s Public Baths

    06/03/2022
    I enjoyed finding this account when I was looking up the date of when the new pool was opened. I...

  • John Humphries on Memories of my grandfather in early 1900s

    28/02/2022
    I too was 'minded' after Googling Harry Dawes to relate this tale. Mr Dawes was my music teacher when I...

  • Marion on Widden School: A Short History

    16/02/2022
    I went to Widden St School from about 1947-8 till 1952. Mr Robinson was the Headmaster, then left and Mr...

  • Valerie George on Barton St. around 1955

    11/02/2022
    I went to school at Hatherly rd infants from 1941 to 1943 then onto st James until I was 11...

  • Paul Evans on Do You Live in Carmarthen Street?

    03/11/2021
    A comment received from Mike Payne: I, too, was intrigued by the Welsh influence in the naming of Carmarthen Street...

  • Andrew Harries on Further Photographs of Tredworth

    29/10/2021
    Ah, my Mum's mother lived at no:28 in 1890's.

  • Eunice Juke on Sparkes Bakery on Ryecroft Street Gloucester

    28/09/2021
    I used to go for dripping cakes, which my Evesham born husband calls lardie cakes. The debate continues

  • Geoff Young on Sparkes Bakery on Ryecroft Street Gloucester

    04/09/2021
    Loved those drippers, they used to deliver to Saintbridge School every day in the '70s, and there was always a...

  • Ann Phelpstead on Coney Hill Girl

    28/08/2021
    The Moon Soft the moon o’er field and wood Steals by brook and tree Cools my brow and calms my...

  • Frank Johnston, Twyver st on Barton St. around 1955

    19/08/2021
    Pub on corner of Millbrook St was the Cromwell

  • Teresa Parker on Sparkes Bakery on Ryecroft Street Gloucester

    25/07/2021
    Hi , I used to work at Sparkes Bakery on the delivery van from late 1968 to 1971 then I...

  • CHRYS HENDI-WARNER on Memories of my grandfather in early 1900s

    23/07/2021
    I was told by Brian King that his father and my great-great grandfather, Harry Hinton were also the Dawes Band,...

  • Les Jenkins on Sparkes’ Bakery

    09/07/2021
    Looking for the recipe my family owned Hobbs Greengrocers Barton Street

  • Richard Willis on Memories of my grandfather in early 1900s

    22/06/2021
    I, too, found this page after Googling ‘Harry Dawes’. I was a pupil of his at The Crypt, and apparently...

  • anthony oldham on The building, business, and breadround

    16/06/2021
    Yes l remember those days. l worked there helping Ken in the morning slicing the bread for the vans and...

  • Paul Artus on My distant relation was supposed to have played for the Tredworth Rugby Football Club. Is this photo correct? Around 1930-40s

    12/06/2021
    I have EXACTLY the same photgraph as this. I am trying to find the name of my relative. He is...

  • David Evans on Gloucester’s Public Baths

    16/05/2021
    I worked at Barton St. Baths from 1965/67 as a pool attendant along with Clive Nibbs, Richard ?,(later joined police...

  • Lynne Hughes on Tredworth School about 1955

    16/05/2021
    My name is Lynne Hughes formerly Lynne Thomas. I am second from the left in the top row. I have...
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  • Tredworth Road school harvest

    27/04/2022
    Tredworth Road school harvest 1949

  • Memories of Barton St.

    31/08/2021

  • My grandfather at Hatherley Rd School around 1910

    23/06/2021
    My grandfather at Hatherley Rd School. There is no date for this photograph. He was Stanley Charles Artus. His son ...

  • Tredworth Rugby Football Club - who is this man?

    23/06/2021
    Hi, I am trying to find the name of my ancestor that played for the Tredworth Rugby Football Club. I ...
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