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The Promenade architecture
The unique and distinctive property of the Promenade is that its roadway is twice as wide at the top end (Queens Hotel) as it is at the bottom end (High Street), while the buildings double in height from the four stories of the Municipal Offices to the two story insurance office at the top. The reduction in height is by a careful and sophisticated series of architectural gradations involving different heights of pilasters, a varying hierarchy of cornices, introduction of attic stories, raised pavements, etc. The reason for this strange doubling in width and halving in height, was to make the original, single storey spa (which was replaced by the Queens Hotel) appear relatively imposing, yet to make the ...read more here
A memory of Cheltenham contributed by Mr Jefferies
'Sabrina'.
I am certain the steamer is 'Sabrina' built in 1870 and was the steam inspection launch of the Directors and Engineer of the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal, Gloucester. In 1912 'Sabrina' was owned by the Dock Company and did not leave their service until 1942. 'Sabrina' is still in regular use now on the River Thames and still in steam.
A memory of Gloucester contributed by C Steggles
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
Ice skating on the port
In the very cold winter of 1963 the canal port (known as the polly basin) froze over we were able to go iceskating , Brimscombe Hill had deep snow drifts and was shutdown but we still got the papers delivered !!! I was a paper boy at the time aged 11 yrs
A memory of Brimscombe contributed by stuart baker
Extracts From Fiddington & Gloucestershire books
Amberley straddles high ground to the south of Stroud, amid glorious Cotswold scenery. This old settlement achieved popularity during Victorian times as the setting for the then popular novel ‘John Halifax, Gentleman’. Its author, Mrs Craik, lived at Rose Cottage.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
Though the present building is mostly 17th-century, a mill has existed on this site since Domesday. Arlington Mill served the locality as both a corn and cloth mill and has most recently been a countryside museum, with an excellent display about the life and works of William Morris.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
This fine row of early 17th-century weavers’ cottages is now owned by the National Trust. Bibury itself is an amalgamation of several earlier hamlets, which have all merged together to make the glorious architectural composition we see today.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
Bisley stands high on a hillside to the north of the River Frome; it has a wonderful assortment of winding streets and rooftops at different levels, as though the village has grown out of the landscape. It is a place to linger and explore, with every turn of a street revealing new delights.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
The fine lines of Bisley Church show that this is another village that earned its wealth from the wool trade, its magnificent spire declaring to the neighbourhood the pride of its benefactors - the wool merchants.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".