Stroud, Gloucestershire

RE CHILDRENS HOME

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

Rodborough House?

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]

Ancestry Harman family

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".

Stroud Photographic Memories

Upper Stroud is in the distance, with Park Road below, still at this period containing only a few large private houses. But it is the mills and factory chimneys at Bowbridge, mostly now demolished, which make the photograph interesting. In 1890 the canal (in the foreground) still carried some traffic. 'Butterow', incidentally, is the more modern spelling of the village where the picture was... [more]

Cotswolds Pocket Album

With the decline of the cloth trade a number of other industries utilised the old buildings, including piano manufacture. The local museum has an excellent section detailing the rise and fall of the Cotswold cloth trade, and much about the important archaeology of the area.

Gloucestershire Photographic Memories

In the foreground is Bowbridge, the southern suburb of Stroud, with the chimneys of several small textile mills clearly visible; the main town is prominent on the hillside beyond. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Stroud was the capital of the Cotswold cloth industry: at its zenith it had more than a hundred and fifty mills in operation.