Artikelname: Around Nailsworth & Minchinhampton
Artikelbeschreibung: E.P. Conway (1874-1946) was born on the Welsh Borders and moved to Nailsworth around 1905. For the next two decades, with. his camera over his shoulder and only a bicycle for transport, he photographed widely in and around Nailsworth, Minchinhampton and nearby villages. Conway's studio was a wooden hut in a garden in Nailsworth. From this base he normally planned his photographic trips, but also ran a thriving portrait business and, together with his sister Annette, gave drawing and painting lessons.From 1905 to 1923 Conway had a virtual monopoly of commercial photography in Nailsworth and parts of the surrounding district. Portrait workapart, he specialised in recording street and church parades the social history of his chosen landscape, where one can glimpse the secure tranquility of Edwardian England. Unwittingly, perhaps, Conway recorded the dying days of a way of life.

Artikelname: Around Newent
Artikelbeschreibung: The quiet town of Newent with its surrounding villages in the north-west of Gloucestershire has many similarities to nearby rural Herefordshire. This beautiful area has fine half-timbered buildings and the town boasts a good array of Georgian and Victorian buildings which, together with the fine timbered Market House, result in Newent remaining the epitome of an unspoilt English market town. This book records the changes in the town and its vicinity from the late Victorian times through to the 1950s. Changes in the street scenes and the fashion in clothes, together with the evolution in transport, are all depicted here. From daffodils to the demise of the railway, Tim Ward has succeeded in bringing together an evocative collection of photographs and postcards from Newent and around.

Artikelname: Gloster Aircraft Company
Artikelbeschreibung: Today it is difficult to imagine that the parishes of Hucclecote and Brockworth once were home to one of Britain's major aircraft manufacturers. Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H.H. Martyn & Company and Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, produced some 10,000 aeroplanes between 1917 and 1963. It also provided employment for countless thousands local people. During World War II alone it employed 14,000 men and women working at the main factory and at 40 sites dispersed in Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and other more distant parts of Gloucestershire. Gloster designed a number of outstanding fighter aircraft which were built in large numbers; it also produced many prototypes which failed to win orders and very many more projects which never left the drawing board. By chance the company was chosen to design and build Britain's first jet aircraft and followed this by building 4,000 jet fighters for the Royal Air Force and a dozen air forces around the world. Gloster finally became the first victim of a program of political and economic stringency which has since decimated British aircraft manufacturing companies.

Artikelname: Gloucestershire's Lost Railways
Artikelbeschreibung: This collection of fifty-two photographs recalls the days when the people of Gloucestershire had a thriving railway network. Most of this is gone now, but all the facts and figures are included here as well as views of long-forgotten stations such as Toddington, Longhope, Coleford, Severn Bridge, Dursley, Chalford, Downfield Crossing and many others. Also included are two rare views of the county's best-known station - Adlestrop - showing it as it looked when Edward Thomas passed through and wrote his famous poem.

Artikelname: The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal: An Illustrated History
Artikelbeschreibung: This illustrated history draws on contemporary sources to shed new light on the difficulties encountered in constructing the canal, including memories of those who worked on the waterway, giving a vivid history.

Artikelname: The Iron Industry of the Forest of Dean
Artikelbeschreibung: From prehistoric times until late in the twentieth century iron was vital to the livelihood of those who lived and worked in the Forest of Dean. Indeed, the iron produced there was vital to the national economy from the Roman period to the early nineteenth century. The subsequent association of the Forest with coal mining has overshadowed this rich heritage and the full story remains untold until now.This book explores the numerous facets of the iron industry in the Forest of Dean including topics such as: techniques and processes involved in iron production, the evolution of iron making technology, changing uses for iron and information on the key individuals involved.The use of a wide range of sources, both archaeological and historical, ensures that the full set of events is presented in an enjoyable and accessible format. The account is completed with a series of appendices providing details and illustrations of key sites relating to this part of the Forest's industrial past.

Artikelname: The Sodburys
Artikelbeschreibung: This book is a splendid pictorial record of Chipping Sodbury, Little Sodbury
and Old Sodbury containing over 240 old photographs. It provides a valuable record of the local landscape, people and events from late Victorian times until the middle years of this century. Drawn mainly from photographs and
postcards in private collections and using personal memories and anecdotes, the compilation depicts much from a way of life that is no more. Yet just occasionally certain pleasing aspects appear to have changed little over the years.

Artikelname: The Stroudwater Navigation
Artikelbeschreibung: Personal reminiscences, legal documents, census returns, illustrations, photographs, maps, plans and poetry are all used to record the role played by the canal in the social history of the region.