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- 20 photos on Tetbury appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Tetbury
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Another Chapter. 21 Church Street.
This picture of Church Street taken in 1949 is special to me as it shows my second home. My father bought the shop (shown third left) in 1948. The property was built around 1750 but unfortunately had lost most of the period features it might have had, but the garden made up for everything, it was HUGE, not the sort of garden usually found in the middle of a town. It had a beautiful stone-built summerhouse which we made into a play house. Unfortunately after my father's death my mother had to sell the property but not before my own child had been able to play in that wonderful garden.
Some time after moving in the new owners sold ...read more here
Contributed by Jill Sheppard
My First Home
This is a photograph of the house where I was born.
My parents bought the house in Long Street, Tetbury when they got married in 1937, I was born in 1939 and my brother followed five years later.
This house is very old and very beautiful and fifty three years later I still miss it. The empty road on the photograph speaks volumes, because now it has disappeared under constant streams of HGV lorries, cars, white vans and everything else that has wheels. These narrow streets were not meant for all this heavy traffic, and is a recipe for disaster.
Contributed by Jill Sheppard
Gloucestershire memories
Another Chapter. 21 Church Street.
This picture of Church Street taken in 1949 is special to me as it shows my second home. My father bought the shop (shown third left) in 1948. The property was built around 1750 but unfortunately had lost most of the period features it might have had, but the garden made up for everything, it was HUGE, not the sort of garden usually found in the middle of a town. It had a beautiful stone-built summerhouse which we made into a play house. Unfortunately after my father's death my mother had to sell the property but not before my own child had been able to play in that wonderful garden.
Some time after moving in the new owners sold ...read more here
A memory of Tetbury contributed by Jill Sheppard
My First Home
This is a photograph of the house where I was born.
My parents bought the house in Long Street, Tetbury when they got married in 1937, I was born in 1939 and my brother followed five years later.
This house is very old and very beautiful and fifty three years later I still miss it. The empty road on the photograph speaks volumes, because now it has disappeared under constant streams of HGV lorries, cars, white vans and everything else that has wheels. These narrow streets were not meant for all this heavy traffic, and is a recipe for disaster.
A memory of Tetbury contributed by Jill Sheppard
Extracts From Tetbury & Gloucestershire books
Tetbury is one of the statelier towns of the southern Cotswolds, overlooking a tributary of the River Avon. Its location prevented it from being despoiled by the industrialists of the 19th century. Tetbury retains all the charms of a market town from the time of the Stuarts.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
Tetbury's history dates to pre-Roman times, though the first written record appears in AD 681 in reference to a Saxon monastery. During the Middle Ages, the town's prosperity grew with the woollen industry, and it became an important yarn market. Tetbury was largely undisturbed by the Industrial Revolution, which is why this Cotswold gem retains so many ancient buildings of timeless charm.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
Besides its famous school, Westonbirt is best known for its arboretum, which boasts one of the largest collections of trees and shrubs in the world. The 600-acre site is owned by the Forestry Commission, and offers 17 miles of paths to explore. Among the 18,000 specimens are over 100 'champion' trees - the oldest, tallest and so on. Beautiful all year round, Westonbirt is especially magical in the autumn.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
On Ash Wednesday and St Mary Magdalene's Day (22 July) each year, a fun fair is staged in the Chipping. 'Chipping' is the Anglo-Saxon word for 'market', and the fairs were once 'mops', at which farm and domestic servants sold their labour to an employer for the year ahead. The fine half-timbered corner premises that in the 1950s housed Fawkes Stores is now a clothes shop. On the opposite side of the road is The Snooty Fox, once called The White Hart, which in the mid 19th century was enlarged to include assembly rooms, where fashionable balls were held.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
Tetbury lies near the boundary of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire on the long stretch of high road between Stroud and Malmesbury. It has achieved fame in the last few years by becoming a royal town, for the Prince of Wales lives nearby at Highgrove.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".