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...
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...
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...