Stow On The Wold
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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
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
A Game of Soccer in the river
Every year there would be a game played in the river in the village using the bridges as goal posts and is, as far as I am aware still played today. It would be around 1955 that my Late Father Frederick Tarte was a referee at local football matches. My father attended over a number of years at the games in the river, as he was stationed at RAF Rissington. Fred arrived one year in a bowler hat and holding a breifcase, upon his arrival he open the breifcase and pulled out his referees whisle, rolled up his trousers and entered the water ready for the match. The referees in subsequent years then also arrived in fancy dress to the amusment ...read more here
A memory of Bourton-On-The-Water contributed by George Tarte
Extracts From Stow On The Wold & Gloucestershire books
‘Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold…’ runs the ancient rhyme. The highest town in the Cotswolds can certainly be windswept, particularly in the winter. On balmier days it is a good place to halt for a while. Stow is not only an attractive town, but one steeped in the riches of English history.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
The English Civil War ended at Stow-on-the-Wold when the parliamentarian Sir William Brereton defeated the aged royalist Sir Jacob Astley in 1646. Some 1600 prisoners were incarcerated in the parish church of St Edward after a last fight at nearby Donnington.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
Sheep Street is an appropriate reminder that this town, which sits on a rounded tump 800 feet above sea level, was once a centre of the wool industry. Sheep known as Cotswold Lions were best suited to the conditions, a hardy breed with fleeces especially thick to keep out the chill and make their owners rich.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
The building of the parish church of St Edward was funded by wealthy Cotswold wool merchants. Above the north aisle is a Pre-Raphaelite stained glass window designed by Sidney Meteyard and made in 1921 by H H Martyn & Company, the Cheltenham firm of artist-craftsmen.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
This place was once a
bustling wool centre, but it
has not grown much since.
When Daniel Defoe visited,
there were 20,000 sheep
being sold here. This view
shows the west end of the
Market Square. Several
routes enter town, but none
disturb this pretty square.
A couple , probably visitors,
admire the old market cross.
The pinnacled 15th-century
tower of St Edward’s peeps
up over the roof tops. The
church was restored in the
1680s after being used to
house prisoners during the
Civil War; it was declared
ruinous in 1657.
An extract from from"Cotswold Living Memories".