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The writer and poet Laurie Lee was born in Stroud in 1914 and moved to Slad when he was three. The village and countryside around inspired his most famous book, 'Cider with Rosie'.

Slad huddles round the road that runs from Stroud to Birdlip. When this photograph was taken, the village was an isolated rural community with most of its inhabitants engaged in agriculture.

The gardens behind Bank House, situated in the lower High Street, were given to the town of Stroud in 1930 by Mr Ernest Winterbotham, and were intended as a quiet corner where shop workers could enjoy

Standing in the Severn Vale to the west of Stroud, Stonehouse was once a cloth-making town.

Here, from the fields off Folly Lane, Stroud may be admired from a very different vantage point.

Built in the latter half of the 18th century, the canal ran from Inglesham to Stroud, where it joined the Stroudwater Navigation to the River Severn at Framilode.

With galleries added on the left, and reduced in height by one storey, it now houses Stroud's new Museum in the Park, opened in 2001.

Like other wool towns in the Cotswolds, such as Stroud, Painswick and Woodchester, Fairford has a 'Rack Hill'.

Built in the latter half of the 18th century, this man-made waterway stretched from Inglesham to Stroud, where it joined the Stroudwater Navigation leading to the River Severn at Framilode.

Holy Trinity Church was built when Stroud Parish was subdivided in the 1830s. At a later stage its twin turrets became unsafe and were removed.

Its purpose was to allow easier transportation of cloth and manufactured goods from Stroud, while also enabling food and fuel to be brought into the heavily populated area.

A number of car and motor cycle makers had factories in Stroud at this time. The largest manufacturer was Hampton Cars, which was based at Dudbridge on the site now occupied by Sainsbury's.

Four miles from Stroud, picturesque Painswick titles itself 'Queen of the Cotswolds'.

Upper Stroud is in the distance, with Park Road below, still at this period containing only a few large private houses.

Then in 1945 the Hereford & Tredegar Brewery was acquired, and the name changed to Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries Ltd; in 1959 it merged with Stroud Brewery.

This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.

This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.

Sims' clock, one of Stroud's architectural curiosities, is in the foreground. A trough formerly stood by it for the use of the horses pulling early buses.

The Trustee Savings Bank building, on the right, was formerly the office of Stroud's Conservative newspaper, the Stroud News.

For the first time it was possible for shoppers to go into towns like Stroud on a regular basis.

The Bear is recorded as a public house and stagecoach inn as early as 1751, positioned along the then route from Stroud via Minchinhampton to Cirencester.

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.

Sidney B Park was a successful businessman; in Edwardian days he owned two drapery shops in Stroud.

Stroud lies at the convergence of five valleys, so there is very little flat ground.