Friday 19th September 7.30pm THE FASCINATION OF RAILWAYS
Friday 19th September 7.30pm THE FASCINATION OF RAILWAYS A nostalgic evening in memories, stories, poems music & song from some of Stroud’s finest writers, artists and performers with Stuart Butler, John Bassett, Crispin Thomas, Katie McCue, Andrew Budd,...
The Fascination of Railways
The Fascination of Railways Rodborough Church Performance 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 observations,...
Stations like Stroud (and Macbeth)
Stations like Stroud (and Macbeth) They’re great theatre, railway stations, don’t you think? The platform as the stage with Life and Existence itself in the limelight. For it’s almost as if a state of beatitude is attained whilst sitting on that platform, regarding...
An A to Z of Women’s Past Work: the GWR in Peace and War
An A to Z of Women’s Past Work: the GWR in Peace and War A is for acetylene cutter and assembler and dismantler of automatic instruments and acetylene welder B is for booking clerk and brass lacquerer and bridge-keeper and blinds puller and boilersmith’s mate C is for...
The Refreshment Rooms at Swindon
The Refreshment Rooms at Swindon The next time you stop at Swindon and grab a coffee, you might be astonished to discover that the refreshment rooms at Swindon were both famous and infamous (also possibly remind yourself of Shelley’s poem Ozymandias with a quick...
The Rodborough GWR Bus Service
The Rodborough GWR Bus Service The GWR experimented with some local bus services in the 1920s around Painswick, Cainscross, Chalford, Kingscourt and Rodborough. I recorded some residents’ memories of Spillmans off Rodborough Hill a few years ago: red brick...