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Hucclecote, Gloucestershire
Hucclecote maps
Historic maps of Hucclecote and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hucclecote maps
Historic map of Hucclecote
Illustrated Victorian map of Gloucestershire
Historic Map of any Hucclecote postcode
Hucclecote books
Displaying 3 of 6 books about Hucclecote and the local area. View all Hucclecote books
Gloucestershire Living Memories
Paperback
£14
Cheltenham Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
Gloucester Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Hucclecote
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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
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
Extracts From Hucclecote & Gloucestershire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Hucclecote, inspired by Frith photos.
Gloucestershire Photographic Memories
Originally the site of a Roman villa in the 1st or 2nd century AD, and on Ermine Street, this outlying hamlet has gradually been absorbed into expanding Gloucester; many of its older houses have been demolished to make way for modern development.
This is an extract from Gloucestershire Photographic Memories.
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Gloucestershire Living Memories
While staying in Gloucestershire in 1863, Lewis Carroll described the view across the Severn Vale as 'marked out just like a giant chessboard'. This, it is said, gave him the idea for the chessboard scenes and characters in his classic children's fantasy Alice through the Looking-Glass. As we look at this view from Birdlip across the Vale to the Malverns, the Severn Estuary and... [more]
This is an extract from Gloucestershire Living Memories.
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Gloucester Photographic Memories
And finally the river winds its way into the city. The cathedral stands proud above Gloucester, overseeing the city's affairs, overseeing the past, and overseeing the future.
This is an extract from Gloucester Photographic Memories.
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