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From January 2016, this website is managed by Stroud Local History Society

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About Stroud

• pre 1200
• 1201-1500
• 1501-1800
• 1801-1850
• 1851-1900
• 1901-1950
• 1951-Today

 

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Living in Stroud

Interviews

• Jim Fern
• Joy Goodenough
• Skip Walker
• Katie Jarvis
• Pete Hendy

Leisure

• Inns
• Meeting places
• Parks
• Library & Museum
• Theatres & Cinemas
• Clubs & Societies
• Friendly Societies

WWII

• Air raid shelter outside Sub Rooms
• Warden's helmet
• Gas Mask
• Evacuee Register
• Meat rations book
• Wartime Recipes book
• Chicken swill masher
• Dance Tickets
• VE Day celebrations outside Sub Rooms

Public Services

• Boundaries
• Politics
• Courts & justice
• Parish administration
• Improvement Commissioners
• Local Board of Health
• County Council
• Stroud District Council
• Population & housing
• Fire Service
• Police
• Welfare & the Workhouse
• Stroud Feoffees
• Health Care
• Water supply
• Drainage & sewerage
• Gas and Electricity
• Telecommunications

Religion & Worship

• Presbyterianism
• Influences on Stroud
• St Laurence's Church

Education & Schools

• Red Boys School
• Charity Schools
• 1840s
• The Black Boy School
• Introduction of State Education
• Stroud College beginnings
• Marling School
• Impact of WWII on Education
• Archway School
• Today

 

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Working in Stroud

Today

• How have they survived?
• The future?
• Case studies

Retail

• Old and new
• The Cross

Arts and Crafts

• Made in Stroud
• Stroud's artistic tradition

Industry

• Cloth Industry
• Reputation
• The role of clothiers
• Cloth preparation
• Ebley Mill
• Decline
• Lodgemore Mill

Engineering Industry

• Phoenix Ironworks
• First lawnmower
• Adjustable spanner
• Daniels
• WWII
• Brimscombe Boatyard

Erinoid Plastics

• How it was used?

Clothing Industry

• Factory & home work
• 20th Century
• Hill Paul

Car Industry
Brewery Industry
Walking Stick Industry

• Early Production
• H.S. Hack

 

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Getting Here

Today

• By rail
• By coach
• Other information

Roads

• 300 years ago
• Maintenance
• Turnpikes
• Act of Parliament
• A Royal Visit
• Map of 1800
• 19th Century
• Charges
• The impact of an improved road network

Road Network

• The effect on the centre of Stroud
• Travelling to London
• Transporting goods
• Car parking

Cars

• What replaced horse drawn carts?

Canals

• The beginning
• Travel
• River or Canal
• River or Canal 1755 - 74
• Financing the Stroudwater Navigation
• Stroudwater Canal Act
• Stroudwater Triumphant
• Stroudwater Triumphant II
• A new canal - Thames & Severn
• Thames & Severn Canal
• Problems
• 20th Century

Rail

• First timetable
• A new line
• The impact
• Stroud time
• Rail motor
• Decline

 

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Key Landmarks

Bowbridge

• Bowbridge House
• Chestnut House
• Bowbridge Mill
• Arundell's Mill
• Field House
• The Field
• Park House
• Eagle Mill
• Newcombe's Mill
• Capel's Mill & Brick House

Brimscombe

• Hope Mill
• Brimscombe Mill
• Brimscombe Port
• Port Mill
• Bourne Mill (1)
• Dark Mill
• Brimscombe Polytechnic
• Brimscombe House
• Gussage Mill
• Lewiston Mill
• Bourne Mill (2)

Cainscross & Cashes Green

• Tricorn House
• Cainscross & Ebley Co-op
• Cainscross Toll House
• Cainscross Brewery
• St Matthews Church
• Fire & Ambulance Stations
• Cainscross House
• Marling School
• Stroud High School for Girls
• Cashes Green Hospital
• The Vicarage

Dudbridge

• Kimmins Mill
• Dudbridge House
• Sainsburys
• Dudbridge Mill/Apperly Curtis/Redlers

Ebley

• Ebley Mill
• Congregational Chapel
• Ebley House
• Ebley Court
• Oil Mill
• Bridge House

Kingscourt

• Rodborough Manor
• Frigg's Mill
• The Bear Hotel
• Hillgrove House
• Bownham Park
• Private Road
• Rodborough Common
• Achards
• Rooksmoor

Lypiatt

• Lypiatt Park
• Ferris Court
• Middle Lypiatt
• Nether Lypiatt Manor

Merrywalks and Beeches Green

• Roman Catholic Church and Convent
• Bus Station
• Rowcroft Medical Centre
• Beeches Green Health Centre
• McDonalds
• St Rose's School
• The Hill
• Badbrook House
• Badbrook Mill

Paganhill

• Upfield
• Field Place
• Maypole
• Archway School
• Anti-Slavery Arch
• Farmhill Park
• Farmhill House
• Puckshole Mill
• Paganhill Mill

Rodborough

• Rodborough Fort
• Rodborough Tabernacle
• Spillmans Court
• Rodborough Church/Endowed School
• Stanfields
• Stringers Court
• Lightpill
• Daniels
• Focus/Great Mills
• Woodhouse
• Butterow

Stratford Park

• Stratford Park/Museum in the Park
• Stratford Mill/Tesco Supermarket
• Stratford Abbey
• Stratford Lodge
• Leisure Centre
• Stroud College

Stroud Hill

• The Cemetery
• The Castle
• Union Workhouse
• General Hospital
• Holy Trinity Church
• St Alban's Church
• Black Boy School
• Cotswold Playhouse
• Wesley Chapel/Salvation Army
• Old Meeting Chapel

Stroud Town

• St Laurence's Church
• Old Town Hall
• The Shambles
• The Cross
• Subscription Rooms
• Bedford Street Congregational Chapel
• Sims' Clock
• Police Station
• School of Science & Art
• Lansdown
• Brickrow
• Stroud House
• Royal George Hotel
• Railway Station
• Imperial Hotel
• British School

Thrupp

• Thrupp House
• The Thrupp
• Griffin's Mill
• Stafford's Mill
• Ham Mill
• Pheonix Iron Works
• Brimscombe Court

Uplands

• The Grove/Hawkwood College
• Salmons Spring Mill and Brewery
• All Saints Church
• New Mills
• The Birches
• The Granges
• All Saints Centre
• Park Gardens
• Little and Slad Mills
• Hawthorn Cottage
• Uplands House
• Old Police Station

Wallbridge

• Upper Gannicox
• Lower Gannicox
• Dirleton House
• Far Hill
• Hill Paul
• Wallbridge House/Wallbridge Mill
• Lodgemore Mill
• Stroud Brewery/Stroud & Swindon Building Society
• Canal Company Agent's House
• Fromehall Mills
• Gas Works

Whiteshill & Ruscombe

• St Paul's Church
• Ruscombe

 

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Who's Who

• A-B
• C-F
• G-K
• L-O
• P-R
• S-V
• W-Z

 

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The Project

• The partners
• The team

 

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