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Mike
Tomkins |
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Cinemas of Stroud and……. he witnessed that Ritz fire |
3:09 |
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Shops & milk delivery in Rodborough in the early 50’s |
2:14 |
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Schools in Rodborough and Church St – early 50’s |
1:27 |
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A strange character – The Mayor of Gloucester Street. |
0:37 |
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Audrey Butts, Dance School & coffee at the Flamingo afterwards. |
1:01 |
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Mike’s apprenticeship involved taking pub signs for painting to the brewery at Wallbridge. |
1:15 |
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Mike working as a brickie for Lusty’s the builders. |
1:36 |
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Julian
Peacey |
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unofficial inspection of the Sapperton Rail Tunnels on the day of a Rail strike. |
1:16 |
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Brewery smells that pervaded the air as you stepped off the train. |
0:29 |
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The Banker loco in Stroud station that was used as a pusher to help the train get up to Sapperton. |
1:05 |
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unofficial car trials up the dirt track past the W in Amberley. |
0:44 |
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Martin
Hyde |
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official dumping rubble in the canal and the joy when he was told to stop doing it. |
1:38 |
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mending all the pot-holes in the roads – history repeats itself! |
1:00 |
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living in a wooden house at Whiteway. The housename was changed to Tin Penny Cottage. |
0:21 |
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Spooky tale- it just Ghosts to Show!. His wife remembers only the sound of horse’s hooves in the dead of night, and a child’s cry the next night. Near the Ryeford double lock. |
1:59 |
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Anonymous
No.1 |
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Dorcas Juggins – her donkey & cart, baker Prothero from Miserden and the Sunshine Health Shop. |
0:58 |
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George Juggins the fireman on his bike, wearing a bowler. |
0:16 |
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Schooldays; junior in Chalford and senior high plus teachers remembered. |
1:08 |
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Scottish schools and discipline. And what she did to avoid the ” strap”. |
0:57 |
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The local policeman and what was done to get food in the post war austerity. Plus making a bit of money from the excess production. |
1:25 |
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Her uncle was a farmer which brought a few benefits to a young girl. |
1:07 |
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Aunty Marion runs the local Chalford shop and – well health & safety was not what it is now! |
1:22 |
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The vicar doubles as a chemistry teacher. He had a certain chemistry it would appear. |
0:52 |
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Working as a lab technician at Marling School. |
0:28 |
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John
Clissold |
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John, as a small boy, is intrigued by the Dam Busters and tries a re-enactment! |
1:56 |
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Ringing the Angelus Bell at school |
1:03 |
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John’s mother pumping the church organ, or not as the case may be. |
1:46 |
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John explains what a “snob” is …… |
0:48 |
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The Bourne Pike, a fishy tail, a long one. |
2:02 |
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Ozzie Clark and the bargee |
0:42 |
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John remembers seeing the nameplate on Bridgend swing bridge bearing the name of Daniels. |
0:08 |
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explaining – “thee be mixing sugar with sand” |
1:45 |
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throwing stones at swans on the canal and being told-off by train drivers |
0:56 |
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Archie the banker engine driver and the sound of the loco reversing. |
1:58 |
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the railcar |
1:05 |
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John, as a choir boy in Bussage church |
1:22 |
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how he prepared the incense burner for Bussage church |
1:13 |
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territorial disputes with young boys along the canal |
1:13 |
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what is Ag Pag Pie? |
0:42 |
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Pig Face Sandwich Day in Avening. |
1:42 |
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John remembers Hill Paul – or the girls therein more accurately! |
0:21 |
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lodging with Miss Hawkins & Miss Hawkins, spinsters of this parish |
2:00 |
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what they told him about Standish Hospital & wounded soldiers |
0:25 |
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the Sperry toilet rat and the shock of finding it at the wrong moment |
0:55 |
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apprentices at Wallers and the tricks they played. You can’t do this at home! |
1:01 |
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carol singing as a lad in Brownshill and Chalford. |
1:36 |
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George and Dorcas Juggins, a sad tale. |
1:44 |
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Anonymous 2 (narrated
by the
webmeister) |
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as a young boy playing in the derelict Stonehouse brickworks |
0:32 |
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remembering Kings Stanley even as an younger boy |
0:33 |
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his relatives and their trades. |
0:33 |
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his father was a carpenter repairing mills & swing bridges. |
0:31 |
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various transport memories and the aroma of the Brewery on brewing day. |
0:38 |
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Christine Mauler |
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description |
time |
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living in the Ship Inn and what Brimscombe Port was like in the 50’s |
1:37 |
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remembering Brownshill School & Stroud Girls School |
0:27 |
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job in Cheltenham & the railway stations on the Cotswold line |
1:26 |
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the Ship Inn and one of its regulars with an odd lunch combination. |
2:00 |
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George Mills’ son |
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description |
time |
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George Mills, proprietor of Central Garage, Chalford. & George & Dorcas – vague memories. |
1:21 |
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George Mills’ son, school days at Sibley & Wycliffe. |
1:17 |
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Rob Ely |
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Rob talking about his schools plus Stroud brewery. |
0:52 |
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collecting elderberries along the canal at Capel’s Mill. |
0:30 |
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George Juggins with two push-bikes. |
1:18 |
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the Dudbridge Donkey & the Brimscombe Banker, the train drivers & signalmen. |
2:03 |
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Bob is a keen Video Documenter of Stroud events and townscape, and was member 57 of the Cotswold Canal Trust |
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Bob Paget |
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update coming soon. |
0:00 |
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Tony Jones |
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on his home-made punt on the Stroudwater with his mates and their boats. Tony remembers the lengthsman – Admiral Pocket. |
1:23 |
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Anonymous
4 |
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the Dudbridge Donkey meets the wrong kind of frost. & the last steam train delivering coal to the gas works. |
0:00 |
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Anonymous
6 |
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when her great Uncle realised there was a grounded boat in Sapperton Tunnel. |
1:32 |
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Martin
Danks |
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Martin’s ancestors were canal carriers, maybe to Brimscombe. |
2:11 |
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more recent ancestors part of the Severn and Canal Company, some their boats ended their days as Purton Hulks. Uncle lived in Michinhampton |
0:48 |
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recent ancestors with an office in Gloucester Docks. |
1:31 |
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David
Kibble |
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description |
time |
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David & brother Tony remember family day trips here, and Stroud beer. |
1:40 |
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Anonymous
10 |
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description |
time |
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First impressions when arriving to live in the area. |
1:17 |
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Schools he went to and teachers. |
1:15 |
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The Dudbridge Donkey & Brimscombe Banker locos. |
1:31 |
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The shop in Dudbridge and the canal in the 1960s . |
1:15 |
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“Scouting for Boys” – or not in this case.. |
1:04 |
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John
Buckle |
track |
description |
time |
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As a retained fireman he attended to the Ritz fire, Bailey’s transport fire and Holloways too. He could tell a few stories! |
1:29 |
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Lewis’s van with an owl above the windscreen and the legend “I scream for Ice Cream”. |
0:51 |
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Remembering the New Inn in Selsley. |
0:38 |
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