Tewkesbury
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Allen & Bros Grocers
My grandfather William Allen and grandmother Florence Allen ran Allen & Bros Grocers during the Second World War, with William's brother Carradine Allen. They lived in Oldbury House with their daughter (my mother) and my great aunt, Lydia Dennis. After my grandfather died in 1958 the family moved to Priors Park where they stayed until the death of Lydia in 1990. While looking up the family tree I have found that my grandfather was born at The Crescent in Tewkesbury and his family all came from Tewkesbury and around. Myself and my siblings spent a lot of our childhoods in Tewkesbury at Priors Park and have fond memories of walking into town through Conigree Lane, where the parrot in the primary ...read more here
Contributed by Ruth Isher
Family History
While investigating my family history I discovered that my great great grandfather Elisha Brownjohn had been employed as the miller at the Abbey Mill, Tewkesbury during the 1830's and 1840's. Several of his children, including my great grandfather John where born in the Mill Cottage, also to be seen in the photograph. I was thrilled to see this old photograph of the mill which I visited last summer
Contributed by chris hampton
Gloucestershire memories
Allen & Bros Grocers
My grandfather William Allen and grandmother Florence Allen ran Allen & Bros Grocers during the Second World War, with William's brother Carradine Allen. They lived in Oldbury House with their daughter (my mother) and my great aunt, Lydia Dennis. After my grandfather died in 1958 the family moved to Priors Park where they stayed until the death of Lydia in 1990. While looking up the family tree I have found that my grandfather was born at The Crescent in Tewkesbury and his family all came from Tewkesbury and around. Myself and my siblings spent a lot of our childhoods in Tewkesbury at Priors Park and have fond memories of walking into town through Conigree Lane, where the parrot in the primary ...read more here
A memory of Tewkesbury contributed by Ruth Isher
Family History
While investigating my family history I discovered that my great great grandfather Elisha Brownjohn had been employed as the miller at the Abbey Mill, Tewkesbury during the 1830's and 1840's. Several of his children, including my great grandfather John where born in the Mill Cottage, also to be seen in the photograph. I was thrilled to see this old photograph of the mill which I visited last summer
A memory of Tewkesbury contributed by chris hampton
Extracts From Tewkesbury & Gloucestershire books
Lack of major industrial development in Tewkesbury meant that the town retained much of its 17th- and 18th-century character and did not experience much of an explosion in its population. In 1831, a year the old man on the left of the picture might well have remembered, Tewkesbury’s population of just 5780 returned two MPs to Parliament, though this did not beat Old Sarum, whose seven electors also returned two MPs. Bristol, with a population of 150,000, also returned two MPs, but Stroud and Cheltenham were not represented.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
The town still retains a large number of half-timbered buildings, including several inns, such as the Bell, the Wheatsheaf, Ye Olde Berkeley Arms and the Black Bear. The Black Bear lays claim to being the oldest inn, dating from 1308, while the Bell, though older in that it contains some 13th-century wall paintings, was originally a guest-house for the abbey.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
In 1907, a room at the Hop Pole cost 4s a night, and dinner would set you back 3s 6d. The hotel, which incorporates parts of a 14th-century building, features in Charles Dickens’s ‘Pickwick Papers’; it is in front of the hotel’s ancient fireplace that Mr Pickwick warms his coat tails.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
Tewkesbury’s cross
stands at the meeting
point of the town’s
three main roads –
the High Street,
Church Street and
Barton Street. The
present structure was
erected in 1920 as a
war memorial, but a
previous cross was
built on the site in
about 1500 to
commemorate the
Battle of Tewkesbury.
In 1650 the original
cross was
unceremoniously
taken down and its
stones used to repair
the Long Bridge.
An extract from from"Gloucestershire Living Memories".
In the days of horse-drawn
travel, Tewkesbury was an
important coaching town.
By 1830 some 30 stage
coaches a day pulled into
Tewkesbury, bringing
passengers to feed and
accommodate, horses to
water and rest, and a great
deal of business to the local
community. The Hop Pole
Hotel on the left in this
photograph was a posting
house, where horses could
be changed and packages
left for delivery to other
towns. The most famous
stagecoach was L’Hirondelle,
which covered the 122
miles from Birkenhead Ferry
to Tewkesbury in 9 hours.
An extract from from"Gloucestershire Living Memories".