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Lower Swell Forge
I first came to Lower Swell as a 16 year old boy; that would have been 1967. I had attended Wilsons Grammar School in Camberwell London. Austen Nichols had worked at the school teaching metal work. He told me that he lived in Lower Swell and had a forge there. He and I got on really well. He was a good teacher and became a good friend. When he left Wilsons he invited me to visit him and that summer I did. I had family friends not far away and combined my visit to him with a short stay in nearby Malmesbury.
Austen showed me the forge and his beautiful little cottage. I stayed for most of the day and before ...read more here
A memory of Lower Swell contributed by ian ashley-smith
Thomas William Wright in Vineyard Street.
My father Thomas William Wright was born in Vineyard Street in 1918, can anyone remember the Wright family there? Other siblings were Mable, Gwen and Jack. Thomas's parents were Thomas and Maud (Evans) Wright.
Audrey Littlewood.
A memory of Winchcombe contributed by audrey littlewood
Sheer Bliss
I lived in lovely Lower Slaughter in 1991 along with my children's father. How we came to live in such a beautiful place was pure luck. We had applied for jobs in nearby Adlestrop and with the jobs came accomodation, Manor Farm Cotts. I remember an open top mock vintage bus driving through in the summertime, usually american tourists waved on the top deck, it felt surreal. My favourite time of day was early evening, we would stroll along the river breathing the sweet air of honeysuckle. I was pregnant with my first child and just filled with complete peace and contentment. Although only there for a short time I really felt that I was home.
A memory of Lower Slaughter contributed by Jane MacCallum
The Old Post Office
My husbands Aunt, Cicely Minnie Day, was the post mistress at the Post Office in Lower Slaughter when it was situated in the house on the far right of this photo. The sign above the door denoting this fact. When she died in 1954 the post office was moved to another house in the village. As a child my husband spent happy holidays in this house when his Mother and Father visited his family there.
A memory of Lower Slaughter contributed by Judith Day
Extracts From Mickleton & Gloucestershire books
This village must qualify for having had one of the most short-lived halts in railway history. Mickleton Halt, costing some
£512 when it opened in 1937, with shelters, an oil hut, and paraffin vapour lighting on both platforms, was listed for closure
in 1941. Motorists, however, have since made more than a brief halt at this attractive village.
An extract from from"Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories".
A few miles to the north of
Chipping Campden lies
Mickleton, a small town that
displays both the limestone
buildings of the Cotswolds and
the traditional half-timbered
style of the Vale. The Morris
1000 is heading west past the
post office towards Tudor
House - with its steeply pitched
roof of stone tiles, it is one of
Mickleton’s notable buildings.
An extract from from"Gloucestershire Living Memories".
The black and white half-timbered frame of the building at the rear of the inn shows the influence of the Warwickshire Vale
building methods on this Cotswold village.
An extract from from"Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories".
The M5 motorway divides this village and its surrounding countryside from Cheltenham. In earlier days,
Staverton’s agricultural products would have been supplied to the growing town, and its lanes would have been
well-ridden by horse owners visiting the neighbouring spa.
An extract from from"Cheltenham Photographic Memories".
An ancient ford and
footbridge, an abandoned
cartwheel and the splash
of water running over a
tiny weir - this delightful
photograph of stone
cottages and attractive
gardens reminds us that
the countryside
maintained a timeless air,
even in the hurry of the
20th century.
An extract from from"Cheltenham Photographic Memories".