The Fascination of Railways
The Fascination of Railways Rodborough Church Performance And Beyond A friend at Stroud Walking Football lent me his boyhood collection of 17 Awdry stories, given to him at Christmas and birthdays in the early 1960s. I emailed him with a few questions and...
A People’s History Chapter Nine
A MISCELLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Nine A few parish register entries: Nympsfield 1719 Daniel ‘a black stranger’ buried. Nympsfield 1773 Francis London ‘a servant to the Rt. Hon. Lord Ducie – supposed...
The Old Curiosity Railway Shop
The Railway Curiosity Shop of Wonder in John Street, Stroud Alec is always busy in his shop, Mending clocks and repairing engines, Walking past trucks and carriages and bottles and level crossings – But when sunlight flashed through the rainswept window, Alec,...
Between the Lines
BETWEEN THE LINES BY RICHARD DRY I grew up in the 1970s in Stonehouse, just off Oldends Lane on the edge of the Park Estate, smack-bang in the middle between two main railway lines. Looking north from my bedroom window, the Stroud to Gloucester line sat...
Pride comes before a Fall
Pride comes before a Fall You know the shop in John Street with all the bottles and jars and bikes and signs outside, and all the vintage toy railway engines inside: all those toy trucks and carriages and level crossings and signals and oh so much more. The one by...
Stroudwater 1825 and Gloucester 2025
Stroudwater 1825 and Gloucester 2025 The spring and summer two hundred years ago Saw a sustained strike by the Stroudwater weavers To protect their standard of living In the face of wage cuts and price rises. Two hundred years later, in Gloucester, Phlebotomists have...