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...
Dirty Old Stroud by Richard Dry
DIRTY OLD STROUD Before Stroud had a by-pass – or a Waitrose – it had a scrapyard. The Salvage and Recovery yard stretched all the way from what is now Travis Perkins to the railway viaduct, filling the space between the Stroudwater Canal and the River Frome. The...
1825 STROUDWATER WEAVERS’ RIOTS BICENTENARY COMMEMORATION WALK
1825 STROUDWATER WEAVERS’ RIOTS BICENTENARY COMMEMORATION Saturday November 15th. Meet outside The Prince Albert at noon for a commemorative walk of some five or six miles maximum along the River Frome and the canal before climbing up towards Amberley and thence...