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Stroud's Imperial Hotel : and its neighbours

The Imperial Hotel, designed by Benjamin Bucknall and renamed Stroud Hotel in 2022, had several fascinating changes in its journey to being the town centre's only surviving hotel. Its prime position opposite the railway station helped its success, as did the hotel's extremely competent early managers Mrs Wade and then her daughter Mrs Lawson.
The hotel's owners, managers and their families all have stories; others nearby also have a tale to tell, like a station master who had more than his fair share of misfortune.
The hotel's original neighbours have changed beyond recognition – did you know that there was once a garage on Station Road? So this thoroughly-researched book also has stories of that garage, the town's early street markets, the Railway Hotel and what is now Stroud House.
Original documents and old pictures give fascinating details about all these buildings and there are dramatic newspaper reports of fire, explosion and scandal. Old adverts are also informative, but most of the ones for staff would not be allowed today.
The final chapter on architect Benjamin Bucknall tells of his work at Woodchester Mansion, St Rose's Convent, a house in Beeches Green and later in Algiers. The chapter includes new research about Bucknall's local family, and the branch that settled in Australia before the 1850s gold rush.
Author: Stevens, Pauline
Published: Stroud : Stroud Local History Society, 2023
110 pages ; 24 cm

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 720.942 STE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 15 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 15 May 2024) - Coming soon (Set: 15 May 2024) - 9939299850

Painswick Rococo Garden : In The Cotswolds: Once Upon a Time

Published: Painswick : Trustees of Painswick Rococo Gardens, c2018

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - G712.6ROC CE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 14 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 14 May 2024) - 9939289790

Lydney Park : Spring Gardens and Roman Remains

Author: Bledisloe, Viscount
Published: Lydney : Lydney Park, c2020

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - G712.6LYD CE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 14 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 14 May 2024) - 9939289766

The Severn Lands No 29 : Gloucester and the Dean Forest

Published: Cheltenham : Edward J. Burrows, Art Publisher, c 1933
Burrow's Royal Illustrated Hand-Book

Cheltenham (CH) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - G914GLO CE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 14 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 14 May 2024) - 9939289758

Favourite Cotswold Recipes

Author: Baldock, Dorothy
Published: Sevenoaks : Salmon Ltd, 1996

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - G641.5BAL CE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - 9939289774

My First 44 Photographs of the Red and White

Author: Davey, Peter, 1940-
Published: Bristol : Peter Davey Publishing, 2002
Bristol Omnibus Photograph Collection 2002

Coleford (CO) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 625.1DAV CO - Local Collection / Paperback - Available - 9939289855

Fine Forest of Dean Coal : from one of Britain's oldest coalfields

Author: Forest of Dean Colliery Association
Published: Lydney : Lightmoor Press, c1996

Cinderford (CD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 622.33COL CD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - Recently returned - 9939289839

Cotswold Sketches : A Delightful Sketchbook of the Cotswold Country. 53 Sketches and Maps

Author: Delderfield, Eric R. (Eric Raymond)
10th edition
Published: Exmouth : ERD Publications Ltd Books; 10th edition, 1979

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - G779DEL CW - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - 9939289863

Son of the Forest

Author: Cann, Billy
Published: Lydbrook : Privately Published, c1980

Cinderford (CD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 942.413CAN CD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - Recently returned - 9939289871

The Historic Town of Tewkesbury : Tewkesbury Town Guide

1988 Edition
Published: Gloucester : The British Publishing Co. Ltd, 1988

Tewkesbury (TY) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 914.14TEW TE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - 993928988X

A Guide to St. Briavels Castle : In The Royal Forest Of Dean=

Author: Salter, Mike
Published: Malvern : Folly Publication, 1998

Cinderford (CD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 728.81SAL CD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - Recently returned - 9939289901

Inquest, Murders and Misdemeanours East Dean 19th Century

Author: Pritchard, Tanya
Published: Printed by Amazon, 2024

Cinderford (CD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 942.413PRI CD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - Recently returned - 9939289898

Wye Valley and the Royal Forest of Dean : including the following places of interest - Rhayader - Builth Wells - Llandrindod Wells - Hay on Wye - Hereford - Ross on Wye - Symonds Yat - Monmouth - Tintern - Chepstow - Lydney - Cinderford - Coleford

Author: Clark, Arthur
6th
Published: Hereford : Wye Valley and Royal Forest of Dean Tourist Board, 1950

Coleford (CO) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 914.14WYE CO - Local Collection / Paperback - Available - 993928991X

Did You Know? Gloucester : A Miscellany

Author: Skinner, Julia, compiler
second
Published: Wiltshire : Francis Frith Collection, 2010
Francis Frith Collection

Gloucester (GL) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 779FRI GL - Local Collection / Hardback - Available - 9939289936

Forest of Dean humour

Author: Beddington, Harry
Published: Cinderford : H. J. Beddington, 1961

Cinderford (CD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Fiction - 821BED CD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - Recently returned - 9939289944
Cinderford (CD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Fiction - 821BED CD - Local Collection / Paperback - In-transit from Cinderford (CD) to Coleford (CO) (Set: 16 May 2024) - 9939227981

The New Regard : of the Forest of Dean, number 3, 1987

Author: New Regard of the Forest of Dean
Published: Lydney : Forest of Dean Local History Society, 1987
Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society

Cinderford (CD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 942.413 CD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 13 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 13 May 2024) - 1315284003

Building a church for Bussage : The history of St Michael and All Angel's Church, Bussage

In the early 19th century Bussage and the whole of the Chalford and Stroud area was undergoing massive social and economic change as the industrialisation and subsequent collapse of the local weaving industry left entire communities in abject poverty with no-one to help them. The Church of England in the form of the Oxford Movement, or more specifically the people in that movement who passionately believed that it was their mission reach out to the occupants of the slums and poverty-stricken areas in this country, aimed to change this by planting a church in Bussage. This is the story of how that was done and what effect this had on the people. This was a time of massive change in the UK and the story of this small community presents a microcosm of the wider story. A story that is still ongoing today.
Author: Main, Patricia
Published: Independently published, 2018
225 pages ; 20 cm

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 286 MAI - Local Collection / Paperback - Available - 9939299621

A Gloucestershire quiz book / Julia Owen ; illustrated by Helen Fenton.

Author: Owen, Julia, 1953-
Published: Seaford : S.B. Publications, 1996.
64p. : ill. ; 21cm.

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - G942.41OWE CE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 08 May 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 08 May 2024) - 9939292600

The history of the Prince Family

Author: Prance Williams, Michael Leslie
Published: Cheltenham : Privately Published, 2024

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 63G920PRA CE - Local Collection / Hardback - Not for loan (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - Coming soon (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - 9939291248

The Holladay family

Author: Holladay; Alvis Milton
Published: Brentwood Tennessee : Alvin Milton Holladay SR., 1983

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - B/HOL SD - Local Collection / Hardback - Not for loan (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - Coming soon (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - 1199815001

Years of WeiHai: 1398 - 1949

Author: Hill, Alec Translator
Published: Shandong : Shandong Pictorial Publishing House, 2011

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - G951WEI CE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9939290764

Journey in Time : 1050 Years of Living in Gottingen

Author: Schwibbe, Gudrun, Schwibbe, Michael, Starosta, Hans and Stephainski
Published: Gottingen : Gottingen Tabeblatt, 2002

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 63G352GOT CW - Local Collection / Hardback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9939290756

The History of Annecy

Author: Maucler, Christian and Amoudry, Michel
Published: Strasbourg : Editions Du Signe, 2014

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 63G352ANN CW - Local Collection / Hardback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9939290780

Souvenirs D'Annecy : Ecrivains et Peintres

Author: Bexon, Alain and Chevallier, Georgette
Published: Annecy : Iterna Alpina, 2008

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 63G352ANN CW - Local Collection / Hardback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9939290802

Memories of a Rural Childhood in the North Cotswolds : 1930 - 1941

Author: Timbrell, George
Published: Bledington : Typeset on IMac, 2004

Cheltenham (CH) - Cheltenham Local Sub - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 63G942.416TIM CE - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9939291213

Association Jewish Historical Society of England : No 1 The decennial census: Jews ( 1941 -1919 census)

Author: Susser, Bernard
Published: London : Susser Press, 1995

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 314.2SUS SD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9937469996

The List of Persons Entitled to Vote : in the election of Knights of the Shire for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucestershire, in respect of Property situated within the Parish of Bisley, in the said County

Author: Hall, Thomas and Wilson, Peter
copy
Published: Stroud : Stroudwater, 1832

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 324BIS SD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9936718011

The Building of Woodchester Mansion

Author: Price, Arthur J.
Published: Strod : Woodchester mansion Trust, 1995

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 728.809PRI SD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9937469937

The Woodchester Park Estate : (with notes of bids), 1953, and Park Farm, Nympsfield, Longwood Farm, Woodchester, Woodchester Park Sale particulars of the Woodchester Park Estate (with notes of bids), 1953, and Easter Park Farm, Nympsfield, 1989

Author: Watterson, Moore and Co
Published: Cheltenham : Watterson, Moore and Co, 1953

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 720WAL SD - Local Collection / Paperback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 993746997X

The Story of Avening

Author: Morris; A. S.
Published: Stroud : Harry Harmer: Stroud News, 1911
in conservation envelope

Stroud (SD) - (Gloucestershire) - Adult Non-Fiction - 942.419MOS SD - Local Collection / Hardback - Not for loan (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - Non-reservable (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 9901665868