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Nailsworth, Gloucestershire
Nailsworth maps
Historic maps of Nailsworth and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Nailsworth maps
Historic map of Nailsworth
Illustrated Victorian map of Gloucestershire
Historic Map of any Nailsworth postcode
Nailsworth books
Displaying 3 of 9 books about Nailsworth and the local area. View all Nailsworth books
Gloucestershire Living Memories
Paperback
$28
Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
11 Nailsworth photos appear in 3 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Nailsworth
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The Potters' Cottage on the hilltop
I knew Fred Potter and his family in the early 1960s - Fred and I dated for a while. Many times we got off the bus on the main road (I lived in Nailsworth), often straight from school - he at Marling, me at High School. We'd then walk past the lake and up that hill - seemed no distance in... [more]
Shared on 23 August 2009
Having moved into Walls Quarry with my husband in 1961, I too remember the snow. It started to fall on Boxing Day 1962. We had a job to get home from Gloucester by car during theafternoon.
By March '63 it was still thick and frozen hard. The postmen had difficulty doing hillside deliveries out from Brimscombe Post Office. Three of... [more]
Shared on 30 May 2008
I first knew Brimscombe in the 1950s. I was brought up between Toadsmoor and Middle Lypiatt. In this starkly isolated location, it took a devoted beer drinker to travel through the darkness to the nearest pub. My Dad was of such a breed, and every evening he would go to the Bottle and Jug of the Port Inn in Brimscombe, more... [more]
Shared on 27 November 2007
In the very cold winter of 1963 the canal port (known as the polly basin) froze over we were able to go iceskating , Brimscombe Hill had deep snow drifts and was shutdown but we still got the papers delivered !!! I was a paper boy at the time aged 11 yrs
Shared on 01 July 2006
My ancestor Henry Fisher lived here according to the 1881 census with his wife Amelia and their 10 children! He was a maltster, so I will have to research breweries.
Shared on 20 January 2010
My dad Roy Taylor was at a childrens' home. He never knew whether it was called Rodbrough or Roxborough House either. He would have been there in the 1950s. He often mentions The Black Boys School which was as it was known and was nearby. I will ask him what else he remembers.
Jayne Smith
Shared on 15 September 2009
The Harman family lived in "The Fields" on the Description of Emumeration District, listed on the 1851 census. "The Fields" was listed between Bowbridge Lane and the "Middle of Strouds Hill".
Shared on 08 March 2009
I was sent to a childrens' home in Stroud in 1955/6 and left in 1959 as my mother had TB of the lung and was in the nearby Standish Hospital. I have quite a few memories of this home - not all of them good!
I am not sure whether the home was called Rodborough or Roxborough house but it was... [more]
Shared on 02 January 2009
Extracts From Nailsworth & Gloucestershire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Nailsworth, inspired by Frith photos.
Nailsworth may not be the most attractive town in the Cotswolds, but the student of industrial archaeology will find it a fascinating place to visit. For it was here that the ancient cloth trade of the area enjoyed a mechanised renaissance at the time of the Industrial Revolution.
This is an extract from Cotswolds Pocket Album.
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Here Nailsworth is seen from the 'W', the zigzag hill road linking it to Box village. By 1900 the 'Pepperpot Church' has been replaced by St George's as we know it today. Apart from fairly extensive modern building development, which has considerably altered this aspect of the town, the other point of interest in the picture lies in the tin church on the left,... [more]
This is an extract from Stroud Photographic Memories.
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Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
The stone cottages built for mill workers look picturesque, but in days gone by conditions were by no means luxurious. It is recorded that in the 1920s such cottages, with their flagstone floors laid directly on the earth and exterior walls with no dampcourse, were difficult to keep warm and dry. To try and improve their comfort, residents laid linoleum over... [more]
This is an extract from Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
