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What a fantastic site! It brings back many memories of my childhood spending holidays with loved relatives. Although not a Gloucester lad my mother was born there. She left when she married my father to live in London. However, she returned in the mid 1970s and died there in 2005. She was truly a Gloucester woman, her favourite place was the viewing area at the top of Birdlip Hill. She will always be able to see Gloucester, as this is where her ashes are scattered.
Good luck and keep up this brilliant site.
Martin@
Glad you like the site, Martin. Birdlip Hill is a lovely place.
Do you know what happened to the Black Dog statue that once stood on top of the now demolished Black Dog Inn in Northgate St Gloucester? Kenneth@
The old Black Dog Inn was demolished in May 1966. The Dog was made of wood and found to be rotten and beyond repair.
Just to update you, having been around the folk museum today to view the Clapham exhibition the black dog statue is on display on the top floor for anyone who wants to see it. Great site by the way, fantastic photos! Stacey@
Thanks for that info, Stacey. The information I gave Kenneth was from the Gloucester Citizen dated Thursday, August 23, 1973. I’m glad it wasn’t destroyed, but wonder how the paper got it so wrong.
Message for Wendy who worked at Morelands and Lived in Northfield road and went to Linden school but now lives in Adelaide, Australia. I bet we knew each other Wendy1
Regards Pwhittard@
This site will put you in touch with each other providing both parties are willing.
Hi The alleyway next to the foundry used to go to Eastern Avenue , it went under these tracks then along a fenced alley within railway land and over the monkey bridge ( a footbridge roughly where mets way is now it then went through the old RAF buildings that used to stand on the west side of eastern avenue, I used to play there as a child.
Mark@
Marks message is a reference to the photograph in the 1950/60s section, frame number 20.
Can you throw any light on how Clapham, Gloucester got its name? Great site. I love these old pictures. Jackie@
The name ‘Clapham’ is from the old English word Cloppa Hamm and means a homestead or enclosure near a hill.
The London Clapham was once a very desirable place to live, but by the 1920s it fell from grace and was seen as an unremarkable area with ordinary people. Clapham, Gloucester was given this name, probably by local delivery traders to start with, to mean it was just an ordinary place to live. The people who lived there took this up and so the unofficial name stuck.
Im Trying to track down some former employees from Fielding & Platt. Specifically anyone who used to work in the canteen with Iris Richards or who new her. Also would like any pictures of Fieldings and employees.
Thanks. Former office girl.
The Anchor Inn. Do you have any info or pictures of this old pub.
My grandmother lived there as a girl in the 1880s with her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Lewis
Val@
I’m sorry Val but I don’t have any photographs of the Anchor Inn. You may like to try http://easywell.co.uk/oldphotographs/images/sitemap1.htm