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Brockworth, Gloucestershire
Brockworth maps
Historic maps of Brockworth and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Brockworth maps
Historic map of Brockworth
Illustrated Victorian map of Gloucestershire
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Brockworth books
Displaying 3 of 9 books about Brockworth and the local area. View all Brockworth books
Gloucestershire Living Memories
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Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories
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Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
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4 Brockworth photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Brockworth
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Brockworth oh Brockworth, what a lovely village! I grew up there and my dad used to take my brother Melvyn and I for walks up the hill. Castle Hill and Coopers Hill. I remember walks from 1975 onwards, especially on the lower slopes of Coopers Hill where we used to stop at the spring and have some water from it. Boy... [more]
Shared on 10 September 2006
Gloucestershire memories
Pat (nee Gilbert) and I were married at St. Stephen's church Sneinton in Nottingham July 1960. We arrived in Gloucester the same afternoon to be met at the train station by our hosts for a 3day honeymoon, they were the owners of the Black Horse Inn in Cranham. We have wonderful memories of the village the church and of Prinknash Abbey.... [more]
Shared on 03 January 2009
This is the department store Bon Marshe filmed from outside the post office, During the war, part of the store was taken over by the American forces and many a date was arranged, to meet under the clock on the far corner. I remember queueing most Saturdays outside to buy currant bread for a treat for Sunday tea, also nylons which... [more]
Shared on 12 December 2007
This is a fine picture of The Oxbode, with the Bon Marché on the right and the old Boots frontage in Northgate Street at the end.
Barton Street it is not.
Shared on 05 October 2006
I am certain the steamer is 'Sabrina' built in 1870 and was the steam inspection launch of the Directors and Engineer of the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal, Gloucester. In 1912 'Sabrina' was owned by the Dock Company and did not leave their service until 1942. 'Sabrina' is still in regular use now on the River Thames and still... [more]
Shared on 06 April 2006
My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ.
Every morning she had to give him and the gardener a piece of leftover cake and a cup of tea. Ernie the gardener was 18 years old and very... [more]
Shared on 31 July 2006
My grandparents Annie Holland and Alfred John Heeks became engaged to be married at this spot. Both from Cheltenham, they were soon after married and emmigrated to Canada and settled in Manitoba, then finally in Alberta. My grandmother had so many wonderful stories about growing up there.
Shared on 30 July 2009
I lived the war years in Gloucester and at weekends when the weather was great, my friends and I would take the bus to Cheltenham and spend the day at the lido. I thought it was a wonderful place.
There were massess of American service men stationed in the area at that time awaiting the assult of the D-day landings. Well,... [more]
Shared on 12 December 2007
Extracts From Brockworth & Gloucestershire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Brockworth, inspired by Frith photos.
Gloucestershire Living Memories
Today, Brockworth is altogether urbanised, a suburb of Gloucester. But when this photograph was taken, it was a village with its own character and community. The tranquil scene captured here reminds us how large-scale housing development in the past few decades has changed the nature of so many former villages. Brockworth church is late Norman and 13th-century, while the adjacent Brockworth Court dates from the 16th century and was built for the last prior of Llanthony.
This is an extract from Gloucestershire Living Memories.
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Gloucester Photographic Memories
Castle Hill is next to Coopers Hill, and is best accessed from the Abbotswood estate in Brockworth, or from a footpath off the A46. This view shows the village of Brockworth, and what is now the old ICI site and airfield. From here you can not only see the city of Gloucester, but also Cheltenham Spa. On clear days the view... [more]
This is an extract from Gloucester Photographic Memories.
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Gloucester Photographic Memories
The lanes from Bentham lead on to the A46, behind the photographer. Cheltenham is six miles away. This is an early shot of the Crosshands roundabout at Brockworth. The roundabout now houses a large public house and a Shell garage. The old Roman road, Ermin Street, is a right turn off this roundabout. Coopers Hill looms in the distance, the site... [more]
This is an extract from Gloucester Photographic Memories.
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