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Betty
Merrit |
track |
description |
time |
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1 |
More on the Ritz fire – hubby leaves sick-bed to see the conflagration from Selsley. |
1:29 |
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2 |
Betty preferred the Gaumont Cinema. |
1:00 |
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3 |
a couple of vicars of Selsley Church. |
0:52 |
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4 |
Betty on the dress & shoe shops of Stroud in the 50’s. |
1:40 |
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5 |
and tells about the grocery shops. |
1:19 |
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6 |
The cafes of stroud. |
1:04 |
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Lionel was the curator of Stroud Museum when it was in Landsdown Rd. |
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Lionel
Watrond |
track |
description |
time |
Play |
1 |
the Ritz cinema cat uses 3 lives: fire, falling masonry and a deluge of water. |
0:50 |
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2 |
Hill Paul cutting its cloth according to its measure – under steam. |
1:57 |
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3 |
Hill Paul – the owners tale. |
1:01 |
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Paul
Townsend |
track |
description |
time |
Play |
1 |
His great Aunt sent here during WW2. |
0:14 |
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Peter
Burrel |
track |
description |
time |
Play |
1 |
Peter lived 30 yards from Downfield station & his wife had a door to door service to Gloucester. |
0:14 |
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Anonymous9 |
track |
description |
time |
Play |
1 |
schooldays in Elmore, and always getting into trouble. |
1:34 |
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2 |
Learning to dance in Kay Virgo’s Dance School and dances at the Sub Rooms |
0:46 |
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3 |
Working on an early canal restoration project – only to have events take over. |
0:18 |
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4 |
Acting in the Cotswold Playhouse in the 1940s and 1950s. |
1:01 |
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Alan
Williams |
track |
description |
time |
Play |
1 |
Working for the council and avoiding the traffic before the bypass was built. |
0:51 |
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2 |
Taking the children camping from the Quaker community in the area. |
2:05 |
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Russel
Howes |
track |
description |
time |
Play |
1 |
When he was minister for the Stroud Congregational Church. |
1:07 |
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