General Strike Centenary
We are looking forward to developing a variety of events to commemorate the General Strike centenary in Stroud and also looking forward to contributing to events in Bristol and Gloucester over the coming months. All will be revealed in the fullness of time but...
A Film Called Happiness
A Film Called Happiness by Jon Seagrave / Jonny Fluffypunk You are fifteen years old. It is 6 in the morning and it is February; it is pitch dark and freezing cold, and you are huddled foetal, shivering in a thin sleeping bag on the seat in a compartment of an ancient...
Gordon and ‘The Flyer’
Inside the Gloucester shed, Gordon was not a happy engine. –I am a large, strong blue engine, he moaned, whilst his driver fussed around him, oiling his joints and polishing his brass with a greasy cloth, –I know what is best for me and I simply wish to be...
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,...