Gloucestershire Local History

This list of local history speakers will be updated from time to time as new speakers are notified.
Amendments and additions to the list should be sent to Naomi McMahon, Local History Secretary, GRCC, Community House, 15 College Green, Gloucester, GL1 2LZ. Email: Naomi McMahon

ALDRED, David H. BSc. Econ. MA PGCE, 98 Malleson Road, Gotherington, Cheltenham, GL52 9EY
Tel & Fax (01242 672533) Email: dhaldred@excite.com
Fee £45 including reasonable travel expenses.

• History of Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham
• Winchcombe & its lost Abbey
• Deserted medieval settlements in the Cotswolds
• Hailes Abbey & the Mystery of the Holy Blood.
• Lost railway journeys in Gloucestershire

        All illustrated

BARNETT, Paul, 22 Gurney Avenue, Tuffley, Gloucester, GL4 0YL
Tel (07833143231) Email barnadillo@aol.com
Fee £35 including reasonable travel expenses.

• Fore & Aft, an illustrated journey through the Purton Hulks ships graveyard.
• Lydney’s Lost Fleet.

BLAKE, Dr Steven, "Delton", Fairmount Road, Cheltenham, GL51 7AQ
Tel (01242 510926) Email steven.blake@deltonglos.plus.com
Fee £50 including travel expenses within Gloucestershire; 20p per mile thereafter.

• Gloucestershire Churches (particularly wall paintings stained glass & Romanesque carvings).
• History of Cheltenham
• Pilgrims roads from France to Santiago de Compostela
• The Pilgrims Way: on foot from Winchester to Canterbury
• John Bellamy (1808-93) A Gloucestershire travelling Showman.
• The Way of St. Olav: The Medieval Pilgrims' Way from Oslo to Trondheim
• The Cotswold Way: 100 miles of History
• Britain's forgotten spas: An architectural Journey
• English Medieval Wall Paintings.
• English Medieval Fonts.

BOURNE, Jeremy M.A. Malvern Mill, Blockley, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9HA
Tel (01386 700250) Email jandabourne@dsl.pipex.com
Fee £25 donation to relevant society + travelling expenses

• The Story of Blockley Silk Mills
• 1200 Years in 60 minutes: A Brief Introduction to a Cotswold Village
• A.E Housman & his Brother's Poems
• Soldier I wish you well: The Burmese Letters of G.H. Housman & his brother's Poems
• The Indian Empire - Was it a Success?

BOWRING, Mrs Anne, (National Trust Lecturer), 40 Hillcrest Road, Portishead BS20 8HP
Tel (01275 848347)
Fee £30 donation to National Trust locally (at moment fundraising for Tyntesfield) plus travel 20p/mile.

• The Flight of the King: Charles II escape from the Battle of Worcester through England
• Gunpowder Plot: The People, The Places & the Plot
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• Secret Hiding Places: A Country House tells its Story
• The Triangular Run: The Slave Trade & the diary of a former slaver

National Trust Subjects: (all talks illustrated with slides)

• Tyntesfield: Saved for the Nation
• A Dutch Experience: Dyrham & the Netherlands
• Clevedon Court: A Medieval Exploration
• A Gift Relationship: Volunteers & volunteering
• A shorter talk on experiences as a National Trust Administrator (without slides)

BOYES, Michael, Tallet House, Little Rissington, Cheltenham, GL54 2ND
Tel (01451 822476)
Fee£40 plus travel expenses over 30 miles.

• A Victorian Rector and Nine Old Maids
• The Adventurous Life of Five Cotswold Brothers
• A Journey to Peru, Land of the Incas
• A Journey to Ladakh, 'Little Tibet'

CONWAY-JONES, Hugh, 1 Grovelands, Gloucester, GL4 3JF
Tel (01452 619679) Email: conway-jones@docks.plus.com
Fee £35 + travel expenses

• Gloucester Docks  Past, Present & Future
• Gloucestershire Curiosities
• The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal
• Gloucester's boatmen on Severn & Canal
• Gloucester's Dockside Community
• Gloucestershire Sights & Stories

CURNOCK, S.A. (Tony), 45 The Street, Uley, Dursley GL11 5SY
Tel (01453 860522) Email: joanthony@talk21.co.uk
Fee Travelling expenses

• Where am I? The Cotswolds or Australia.
• The Garlick family of Uley - Pioneer Emigrants to South Australia

        Both talks are illustrated by slides and feature people and
        places in the Cotswolds with links to and in Australia
        from 1760 to present)

• Singapore: the Lion City.

DAVIES, Gwilym, "Sweets of May", 39 Buckles Close, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8QT
Tel (01242 235662) Email: gwilymdavies@bigfoot.com Website: www.puzzlejug.co.uk/gwilym
Fee £50 plus travel expenses

• English Gypsy folk song and dance
• Folk music and songs of the Cotswolds
• Percy Grainger folk song collecting in Gloucestershire
• History of Cotswold Morris Dancing
• Traditional Cotswold Carols and Wassails.

DAVIES, Tim, The Estate Office Berkeley GL13 9QL T: 01453 810303 F: 01453 511915
Tel (01242 235662) Email: tim.davies@berkeleyestate.co.uk
Fee Donation to Berkeley Castle Charitable Trust plus travelling expenses 40p per mile.

• The Berkeley and Spetchley Estates
• Berkeley Castle
• Spetchley Park Gardens
• Marketing Historic Estates.

DIXON, John, M.Phil. President, Tewkesbury Historical Society, 5 Stokes Court, Oldbury Road, Tewkesbury, GL20 5JL
Tel: (01684 294262) Mobile (0774 7727703) Email: john.history@freeuk.com
Fee £35 including travel within the local Cheltenham/Gloucester/Tewkesbury area

• WWII in the Tewkesbury area
• Barbara Cartland's father, Walton House & WWI.
• Tewkesbury's Members of Parliament.
• The Holocaust Revisited: Schindler's Krakov & Auschwitz
• "Political Corruption amidst Victorian Probity" in Tewkesbury
• Tewkesbury's forgotten High Street railway station and its impact on the development of the town
• Tewkesbury's History Bulldozed for the Kremlin!
• Tewkesbury's Political Elite before the Great Reform Act.
• Historical Tourism with Bite: Tewkesbury Slave Labourers on the Burma Thailand Railway in WWII. But did the Bridge over the River Kwai exist?
• Guided Tour (c. 1 hour) around "Hidden Tewkesbury" also available: an opportunity to see remnants of Tewkesbury's failed industrial revolution.

DRAPER, Dr Simon, Victoria History of Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW,
Tel (01452 425292) Email: simon.draper@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Fee Travel expenses together with a donation to Local County History Trust.

• Victoria County History
• Writing a Parish History
• Landscape History / Archaeology
• Anglo-Saxon England
• Roman and Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire / Gloucestershire
• Place Names and History / Archaeology.

EVANS, Dan, 4 Cornfield Close Bradley Stoke Bristol BS32 9DN
Tel (01454 625313) Email: woodenhouse@talktalk.net
Fee £30 including local travel.

• History of English Place Names
• History of Bath Abbey
• Bristol Statues and Local History
• Stones and Streets of Bath
• Brunel and the Suspension Bridge.

FRY, Mrs Eileen, 26 Crescentdale, Longford, Gloucester, GL2 9EP
Tel (01452 306300) Email: Harveylinrose@sixty-ninesee.fsnet.co.uk
Fee £30.00 plus £5 travel expenses.

• You are My Sunshine - Childhood Memories of the War Years
• Swindon Trip Week - Life in a Railway Town
• War Poets with local emphasis
• Poems and Yarns of Old Gloucester

FURLEY, Patrick, "Tramara", 160 Hempsted Lane, Hempsted, Gloucester, GL2 5JY
Tel (01452 504379) Mobile (07812 506674) Fax (01452 504379)
Fee £30 inclusive within 15 mile radius of Gloucester then additional mileage as agreed

• The Magic Lantern, its history and a show as it was given 150 years ago

GREET, Mrs Carolyn S. BA Dip.Ed., 129 London Road, Cheltenham, GL52 6HN
Tel (01242 574325)
Fee As arranged

• Charles Jessop  Victorian Nurseryman
• Edward Welch  A Cheltenham family seen through 19th century eyes.
• Charles Hale  Musician & Cheltenham Town Surveyor
• A Walk down Cheltenham High Street in 1810  Past buildings, present traces. (Illustrated by slides).

HARRIS William P. Chestnut Park House, Charfield Road, Kingswood, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 8RL
Tel (01453 843411)  evenings
Fee Donation to Oxfam + travel expenses where journey exceeds 60 miles

• Slide show and Commentary on: Wotton area (with particular reference to surviving woollen mills).
• Stroud area (as above).
• Sharpness Docks.
• Sharpness & Gloucester Canal.
• Gloucester Docks.
• Various sets of Bristol area & some national

HEIGHWAY, Carolyn, 6 Church St, Kings Stanley, Stonehouse, GL10 3HW
Tel & Fax 01453 823172 Email: carolyn@pasthistoric.co.uk
Fee £50 including travel expenses.

• Anglo-Saxon Gloucestershire.
• Anglo-Saxon England.
• Architectural Development of Gloucester Cathedral

HERBERT, Dr Nicholas M. BA PhD. (formerly County Editor, Victoria History of Gloucestershire), Gable Cottage, Park Lane, Prestbury, Cheltenham, GL52 3BN
Tel (01242 232242) Email: nmhrbrt@aol.com
Fee £30 including travel expenses.

• Road Travel & Transport in Georgian Gloucestershire
• Trade on the River Severn in Gloucestershire
• Development of Georgian Gloucester
• Medieval Gloucester
• Landscape & Settlement in Forest of Dean.
• Interpreting the Gloucestershire Landscape.
• Carved Headstones of Vale & Severnside Churchyards.
• The Medieval Towns of Gloucestershire.

HEWLETT, Rose, 9 Vicarage Lane, Frampton on Severn, Gloucester, GL2 7EE
Tel (01452 740894) Fax (01452 740698) Email: clifford.fce@farming.co.uk
Fee £35 to include reasonable travel expenses.

• Village Life in Mid-Victorian times.
• How to get the best out of Village Records.
• A Village through time.
• Guided walks around Frampton on Severn.

HOWE, J R MA M.Litt. Dip Ed., The Laurels, The Street, Frampton on Severn, GL2 73D
Tel (01452 740805)
Fee Travel expenses.

• Local personalities & Politics since 1880.
• British Social & Political History since 1800.
• Britain & Europe 1945-1990.

HOWES, Russell BA. 68 Barrowfield Road, Farmhill, Stroud, GL5 4DG
Tel (01453 758429)
Fee Donation to a charity

Topics from history of Gloucestershire, for example:

• Medieval sieges of Gloucestershire
• Murder of Edward II,
• Gloucestershire Monasteries,
• The Reformation in Gloucestershire,
• Elizabethan Gloucestershire,
• Gloucestershire & America,
• Cavaliers & Roundheads in Gloucestershire,
• Colonel Massey & the siege of Gloucester
• The Post in Gloucestershire,
• Joseph Pitt & the Rise of Cheltenham.

JONES, Mrs Sylvia. Aldersyde 6 Bream Road Lydney GL15 5JH
Tel (01594 844780)
Fee £30 plus travel expenses 40p per mile.

Topics from history of Gloucestershire, for example:

• The Prehistoric & Roman history of Nemobbala, the healing sanctuary at Lydney Park - 100 BC - AD 460. To include a brief resume of the life of Julius Caesar & major historical events in Britannia and on the continent of Europe during this period.

JURICA, Dr A R J BA PhD. Editor, Victoria History of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
Tel (01452 425292)Email: john.jurica@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Fee Donation to Local County History Trust.

• History of Gloucestershire.
• The Study of Local History.
• Study of a specific parish.
• Gloucester Churches, Chapels, Hospitals & Docks.
• Aspects of Gloucester's history after Municipal Corporation reform in 1835.
• Forest of Dean Settlement, industry, churches, chapels & schools.

KEAR, Mrs Averil, (Former Archives assistant at the Gloucestershire Archives) Patch Cottage, Oldcroft Green, Lydney, Glos. GL15 4NR.
Tel (01594 563165) Email: a.kear@homecall.co.uk
Fee £40 + travelling expenses over 20 miles.

• Outrage in the Forest: the story of a group of convicts from the Forest of Dean who were transported to Bermuda).
• Schooldays: The history of Forest of Dean schools.
• A policeman's lot: History of the police force in the Forest of Dean.
• The story of Apprenticeship in Gloucestershire.
• Your house has a history: How to trace the history of your house.
• Understanding the Poor law.
• Exploring inventories.
• The Power of the Chapel: How Nonconformity influenced the lives of people in the Forest of Dean.
• Special houses of the Forest of Dean.
• The early history of the Forest of Dean.

LOCKE-MILLS, Mr M G, Brook Farm Longdon Marsh Tewkesbury Glos, GL20 6BD
Tel (01684 833884) Email: romanypenner@tiscali.co.uk
Fee £45 plus petrol.

• My Gran was a Gypsy.
• Lighter side of Policing.
• Life of a Prison Inmate.
• Further tales of the Gypsies.

LOOSLEY, John, Stonehatch, Oakridge Lynch, Stroud, GL6 7NR
Tel (01285 760460) Email: john@loosleyj.freeserve.co.uk
Fee Donation to Friends of Stroud Hospital.

• Researching Family History in Gloucestershire.
• Gloucestershire Overseers of the Poor Papers.
• Early Emigration to Australia from Gloucestershire.
• Gloucestershire Almshouses.
• History of allotments in Gloucestershire.

MACKINTOSH, Ian, 6 Castle Villas, Stroud, GL5 2HP
Tel (01453 766273) Email: ianmack@mcmail.com
Fee Donation to Stroudwater Textile Trust

• History of Stroud - its evolution, aspects of its history, character.
• 400 years of Stroudwater Textiles
• Life and Times at Longford Mills Men
• Behaving badly (highlights social & individual discontent)
• Out of the Picture - A study of the C18th picture of Wallbridge
• Medieval Fulling mills

       Where possible these talks can be adapted for local interests
       Willing to give talks at short notice

MOSS, Philip, 21 Havelock Road, Hucclecote, Gloucester, GL3 3PF
Tel (01452 619997)
Fee As arranged.

• Hidden Gloucester.
• Old Inns of Gloucester.
• Priories & Friaries of Gloucester.
• The Spas of Gloucester.

        Illustrated by slides

NORTH, Geoffrey A., 7 Parr Close, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 1NH
Tel (01452 857803) Fax (01452 540997) Email: geoffreynorth@blueyonder.co.uk
Fee £25 (min.) dependent upon size of group + donation to Cheltenham Local History Society

• Marianne North: Victorian Artist and Traveller (buried Gloucestershire)
• Cheltenham Town Survey 1855-57.
• Cheltenham's Voluntary Aid Hospital's (VAD) 1914-1919.
• A 'digital' tour around Cheltenham in the 1850's, (area to suit).
• A 'digital' walk in the 1850s (St Luke's and Lower Bath Road, Cheltenham)
• A 'digital' walk in the 1850s (Upper Bath Road and Naunton Park, Cheltenham)

OTTEWELL, Gordon, 33 Delavale Road, Winchcombe, Cheltenham, GL54 5YL
Tel (01242 603464)
Fee £40 + Travel Expenses.

• The Evenlode Valley - Places & People.
• The evolution of the Village School.
• The history & natural history of Hedgerows.
• The Cotswolds - a literary tour.
• Quaint & Quirky Gloucestershire.
• Wandering along the Windrush

PALMER, Roy MA.,39a Albert Park Road, Malvern, Worcs, WR14 1RH
Tel (01684 562958)
Fee £35 + Travel Expenses.

• The Folklore of Gloucestershire *
• Traditional song in Gloucestershire *
• Gloucestershire Street Ballads *
• The River Leaden (Illustrated with slides)

PARKER, Sarah, The Edward Jenner Museum, Church Lane, The Chantry, Berkeley, GL13 9BH
Tel (01453 810631), Fax (01453 811690) Email: manager@jennermuseum.com
Fee £50 minimum donation plus travel expenses.

• The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner ((1749-1823).
• Suffragetts, Soldiers and Servants  An intriguing behind the scenes of Grace and Favour community at Hampton Court Palace (1750-1950).

PERRY, Mrs Jackie, Goddards Wharf 10 Alney Terrace Alney Island Gloucester GL1 2RZ 01452 506146 Work: 01452 410022 ext 253 jackieandrich@talktalk.net
Tel (01452 506146 Work: 01452 410022 ext 253) Email: jackieandrich@talktalk.net
Fee £25 Plus travel expenses over 20 miles.

• Pool Meadow, Alney Island, Gloucester
• Brickmaking in the Meadows from the Civil War to the Victorian Period.
• Occupation - Social and Economic Growth - 1841-1901.
• Women and Work - 1850-1950.

PERRY, Megan D., 22 Perch Drive, Mile End, Coleford, Glos.
Tel (01594 834168) Email: latejoys@btinternet.com
Fee £30 Plus travel expenses over 50 miles.

• A Voyage to Fiji - 1884.
• Air Travel - 1950s.
• Military Nursing 1600-1900.

PETERS, John, 8 Woodcock Lane, Stonehouse, GL10 2EE
Tel & Fax (01453 824459) Email: myrajohn@btinternet.com
Fee Travel Expenses only

• Tetbury (particular reference to A Boy in Tetbury' by Frank Peters
• Photographing Historic and listed buildings.

PILBEAM, Alan, 21 Blenheim Orchard Shurdington Cheltenham GL51 4TG
Tel & Fax (01242 862443)
Fee £35

• Gloucestershire Landscapes.
• Old Paths of Gloucestershire.
• The Legacy of Frosts and Floods.
• Trees in the Landscape.

PORTER, Tim, Hans Hill Farm, Sezincote, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9TB
Tel (01386 700664)
Fee £45 plus travel 20p per mile - but negotiable for smaller societies.

• Medieval & Anglo-Saxon topics (both local and general) including Pilgrims, Churches, Great Lives, Wars of the Roses, etc. Full List on request & available for guided tours
• Also local music history (Holst, 3 Choirs Festival etc).

PRICE, Arthur,Frocester Court Frocester Stonehouse GL10 3TN
Tel (01453 823250)
Fee £40 to £60 depending on location and distance from home.

• From Quarry to God (stone's of Gloucester Cathedral)
• The building stone's of Stroud
• The building stones of Woodchester Mansion
• The Quarry industry from Painswick to Nailsworth
• Underground quarrying in the Cotswold's
• Caves and Caving (Mendip, South Wales, Forest of Dean)
• Frocester in old pictures and photographs
• Frocester Court - a history of the buildings

• Wildlife & Plants of the Royal Forest of Dean.
• Charcoal burning - the hard way.
• Industrial History of the FOD: Iron, Timber, Stone, Coal
• Forest of Dean History: Canute to Q.E II.
• Flowers, Fruits & insects of the Forest of Dean.

ROBERTS, Phillipa, 2 Park Cottages Spillman's Pitch Stroud GL5 3LY
Tel (01453 840296 / 07961 838 304)Email: phillipamroberts@hotmail.com
Fee £35 plus travel expenses.

• Readings from her Grandmother's: 'A Wartime Poetry Journal', 'The Golden Glory has fled', and 'Winter Jasmine'. All lively and humorous books on the approach to life during World War I.

SAMPSON, Aylwin, 33a Tivoli Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2TD
Tel (01242 237302)
Fee £35 + Travel Expenses
The availability of an ohp/episcope would be appreciated.

• Worthies of Gloucestershire: people & places.
• Cotswold Enigmas.
• The English Cathedral Close.
• Exploring Parish Churches.
• The Queen's Hotel, Cheltenham.
• Getting into print.
• Poet's Paths: footpath in literature.
• Change not decay: local historian's view of conservation
• Cheltenham's story.
• First-Class cricket grounds.
• Racecourses.
• The homes of rowing.
• Some Welsh towns.
• Cotswold Churches: an artist's view.
• Streetwise: exploring towns
• Ramblings of a blockhead.
• Roman Cotswolds.
• The Park, Cheltenham

SEAL, Christine,3 Vallenders Road Bredon Tewkesbury GL20 7HL (home)
Tel (01684 773216 (home) 01865 288817 (day time)) Email: Christine.seal@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Fee £25 plus petrol.

• Domestic Servants in the 19th Century.
• The Poor in Cheltenham Union, 1834 to 1914 : workhouse and almshouse
• Occupations in the village communities around Bredon Hill, 1851 to 1901
• Masters and Servants of the National Trust Houses: Severn Region 1861 - 1891.

S,IMON Barry, 3 Swindon Hall Swindon Village Cheltenham GL51 9QR
Tel (01242 521723) Email: barry-simon@hotmail.com
Fee Small donation to Swindon Village Society

• The History of Swindon Village.
• The History of Swindon Manor.
• Saint Kenelm and the Kenelm Way.
• Brockhampton, Southam and Saxon Charters.
• The History of Local Church Architecture.

SMITH, David J H, 22 Beaumont Road, Longlevens, Gloucester, GL2 0EJ
Tel (01452 302610) Email: david_j._h.smith@virgin.net
Fee £40 plus travel by public transport or lift. Workshops: £150 per day plus travel by public transport.

• The Berkeley family of Berkeley Castle
• The murder of Edward II at Berkeley Castle
• 40 Years in the Archives: attics and basements I have known
• Myths and legends of Berkeley Castle
• Sir Thomas Phillipps: bibliomaniac
• The Codrington family of Dodington Park
• Victorian villains and victims
• Render unto Caesar: the impact of the established church on ordinary people c1500-1857
• The origins and development of the County of Gloucester, 1007-2007
• Highlights from the history of the City of Gloucester
• An introduction to probate records
• An introduction to manorial records
• An introduction to title deeds

• Learning to read Tudor and Stuart handwriting
• Practice in reading Tudor and Stuart handwriting
• Understanding probate records
• Understanding manorial records
• Understanding title deeds
• Coping with Latin c1400-1732 without knowing the language

TORODE, Rev Brian, 23 Arden Road, Leckhampton, Cheltenham, GL53 0HG
Tel (01242 231212) Email btsarnia@aol.com
Fee Donation £25 plus to chosen charity.

• Jewish Communities of Cheltenham, Gloucester, & Stroud.
• The Story of Cheltenham's Tivoli.
• John Middleton: Provincial (Cheltenham) Architect -3 talks.
• Medieval Pilgrimage in Gloucestershire.
• William Hill Knight: Cheltenham Victorian Architect
• Cheltenham's Masters of Ceremonies.
• Wells and Holy Wells of Gloucestershire.

UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Archives & Study Centre, Lorna Scott (Archivist) or Caro MacIntosh (Archives Assistant), Archives Room, Francis Hall Close, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ
Tel (01242 543496) Fax (01242 543283) Email: archives@glos.ac.uk

Fee Travel expenses outside the Gloucester/Cheltenham area or collection/drop off (both non-drivers) Donations for the Development and Upkeep of the Archives are appreciated.

• History of the University & its predecessor colleges & student life
• Archival Practice
• University Archives & its constituent components & the BGAS Library & the Gloucestershire Poets, Writers & Artists Collection

        All talks can be illustrated with archival items/facsimiles.
        Visits or tours can be arranged for groups of up to 20 during the day or evening

WALTON, Dave, 2 Sandringham Court, King Arthur Close, Charlton Park, Cheltenham, GL53 7EY
Tel (01242 233377) Email:  davidpwalton@gmail.com

Fee £40 payable to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (CAG&M) for the first talk and donation to "The Cotswold Listener" (Talking Newspaper for the Blind) for the second.

• Gimson & the Barnsleys (Arts and Crafts Movement in Gloucestershire).
• Poets of Gloucestershire (Several different versions available)

WATKINS, Malcolm J, BA, AMA, MIFA, Heritage Matters, Laynes Cottage, Highleadon, GL18 1HG
www.heritagematters.co.uk   Email: info@heritagematters.co.uk

Fee £40 plus plus reasonable travelling expenses (25p per mile).

• The Birdlip Grave Group
• Personal recollections of a life in the history of Gloucester
• The Gloucester Tables Set
• Roberts Brothers
• The Siege of Gloucester
• Mancala
• Humpty Dumpty - did he fall, or was he pushed?
• A brief history of Games
• My life as Sir Watkyn Morgan
• A Cabinet of Curiosities
• The Gloucester Tudor Doll
• Vandalism for Archaeologists
• William Sheppard

WILSON, Dr Ray B.Sc. Ph.D. Hon. Sec. Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology. (GSIA), Oak House, Hamshill, Coaley, Dursley, GL11 5EH.
Tel (01453 860595) Email: ray.wilson@coaley.net
Fee £33-£39 including Travel.

• Gloucestershire's Industrial Heritage
• A Second Look at Gloucestershire's Industrial Heritage.
• A Third Look at Gloucestershire's Industrial Heritage.
• Stroud's Other Industries (more than just cloth!).
• A Second Look at Stroud's Other Industries.
• Sharpness -a Country Dock.
• Gloucester Docks - Past, Present & Future.
• Mills of the Stroud & Nailsworth Area.
• Mills of the Dursley & Wotton-under-Edge Area.
• The Industrial Heritage of the Forest of Dean.