Painswick
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Painswick books (15 available)
- 17 photos on Painswick appear in 6 Frith books - View photos of Painswick
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Painswick memories
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sunday mornings
My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ.
Every morning she had to give him and the gardener a piece of leftover cake and a cup of tea. Ernie the gardener was 18 years old and very shy. He took her to the pictures in Stroud one day and she invited him home for tea one Sunday.
The very next day she received a letter from her mother informing that they had moved from Bedwelty in Wales to Blackheath in Birmingham and that she was to come and get a job there as there were plenty. She ...read more here
Contributed by PETER ROYAL
Gloucestershire memories
sunday mornings
My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ.
Every morning she had to give him and the gardener a piece of leftover cake and a cup of tea. Ernie the gardener was 18 years old and very shy. He took her to the pictures in Stroud one day and she invited him home for tea one Sunday.
The very next day she received a letter from her mother informing that they had moved from Bedwelty in Wales to Blackheath in Birmingham and that she was to come and get a job there as there were plenty. She ...read more here
A memory of Painswick contributed by PETER ROYAL
Thoughts of Bisley Rodborough Chalford and more.
1794 The year my direct ancestor was born in Bisley. It was not until I found my connection with him that I discovered that my roots started there. Abraham Davis for that was his name, was born, lived, married and came to a untimely end in the Bisley area. His death occurred on the 29th September 1851 when he accidentally fell in the canal at Rodborough and drowned. I am now itching to find out more about him and the area in which he lived, also families that were living there at that time. Some families may still be living there, indeed even some of my own. If I find anything unusual of local interest I will post it here. To ...read more here
A memory of Bisley contributed by Jim Davis
THE WAR YARS 1939 1945
Hi I am Derek Hyde. I with my sister arrived in Eastcombe late afternoon on the day war was declared, Sept 3d 1939. We had been evacuated from Birmingam, we were to live with our grandparents for the duration of the war, we were the lucky ones to be with them, many others who came later did not know who they were to live with. We were related to the well known Bond family. I only ever remember very fond memories of all the people I got to know during that period. Boys of my age were Derek Dowdswell, Hedley Law, Maurice Greenwood. I worked on the farm owned by Mr Andrews. I was also a choir boy in the local ...read more here
A memory of Eastcombe contributed by derek hyde
Extracts From Painswick & Gloucestershire books
Painswick—the ‘Queen of the Cotswolds’—is situated amid glorious woodland high on the western side of the wolds. Its narrow winding streets have a Dickensian feel, and but for the hum of traffic, it would be easy to imagine yourself back in more gracious times.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
The church at Painswick has a right-angled, almost fortress-like chapel, which dates back hundreds of years.
An extract from from"Gloucester Photographic Memories".
St Mary's church is the focus of this ancient little town, which is built almost exclusively from Cotswold stone. The church tower houses a peal of twelve bells. In the tiny square nearby are the town's unusual stocks, made from iron.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
Painswick was a market centre for the smaller villages along the valley. It had its characters, such as Percy-from-Painswick, mentioned by Laurie Lee, author of Cider With Rosie, who grew up in nearby Slad.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
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. Local quarries
around this hilly domain provided the
grey limestone for fine buildings like
the Old Grey Courthouse with its tall
chimneys, attractive lines and gables.
The stream water was used to power
cloth mills. The pure water was also
suited for dyeing cloth. The Falcon
Inn dates from the early 1700s -
it has a date stone of 1711. On the
right we can spot examples of the
topiary for which the town is famous.
An extract from from"Cotswold Living Memories".