Stroud Local History Society

Stroud History Society does not have the resources to research enquiries or family history but listed below are some of the publications and sources of information which may be helpful. We will pass enquires on to members who may be able to assist.

Items in blue are in the Society’s collection and can be viewed (by arrangement)

Please visit the Links Page for other useful websites.

Society members have researched and published articles on Stroud’s history and contributed to exhibitions about the history of the town and area.

Society Members Publications:

2003   Stroud Versus Slavery                                     Philip Walmsley

2000  A Millennium Miscellany                     A Collection of articles of Local Interest by Members

1995   The Railway Comes to Stroud 1845              Stroud Local History Society

1993   The Stroudwater Riots of 1825                      John Loosley                         ISBN 0 9521149 0 9

1993   The Story of Stroud                                          Philip Walmsley

1987   Enquiry which shocked Victorian Stroud  - Water supplies, Drains and Sanitation     Jack Sollars

Exhibitions in Stroud in which Stroud Local History Society have participated:

 

1994: Stroud 400 – 1594-1994      Stroud was granted a Market Charter in 1594 – Wall hangings in Old Town Hall, The Shambles.

2004: Stroud 700                              Exhibition celebrating Stroud beginnings and as a separate  community since 1304.

2006: Brunel 200                              Isambard Kingdom Brunel – born 200 years ago Exhibition about the Railway and its effects on Stroud

GRCC Annual Meetings at Sir Thomas Rich’s School in Gloucester:

 

2005: Gloucestershire and the Napoleonic Wars – Stroud Area

2007: Non-Conformism in Gloucestershire

2008: Poets and Writers in Gloucestershire

2009: Housing the Poor: Social Housing for all

Other Societies in the Area:

Stroud Civic Society – interest in the Town and surrounding area development.

Stroud Textile Trust – special interest in the Woollen Industry and the Mill Buildings.

Cranham History Society

Leonard Stanley History Society

Minchinhampton  History Society

Nailsworth Local History Society

Oakridge Local History Society

Painswick History Society

Randwick Historical Association

Stonehouse Local History Society

Gloucestershire Family History

Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology

Useful Historical Reference sources:

 

1891/1975     Notes & Recollections of Stroud 1871 – P H Fisher ISBN 0-904387-06-2

1870-1890     Twenty Years History of Stroud – John Libby

Victorian History of Gloucestershire

1982   Neighbourhood Search – Gloucestershire County Library

1977   Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt – Mary A Rudd ISBN 0-904387-16-X

1973   South Gloucestershire – Index to sources – Gloucestershire County Library Of Local History

1967   Industrial Archaeology of the Stroud Area – Lionel Walrond

1957   Gloucestershire Studies editor H P R Finberg

1949   Catalogue of Gloucestershire

1880    Stroud Natural History & Philosophological Society – Stroud Journal

1820   Gloucestershire Directory

Publications of local interest: (Dates of publication on left)

2011 History of St Paul’s Church Whiteshill and The Church of the Holy Spirit Paganhill                                                                                                          Keith Davitte

2011  The Illustrations for Garter Bigland’s Historical Collections of Gloucestershire                                                                                         Huw Jones  

2009   Stroud Workhouse – A Danger to Sick People -  Chas Townley   ISBN 0-956-33130-1

2009   Rodborough House                                                              Chas Townley

2008   The Story of Erinoid                                                              John Morgan

2008   Ebley Chapel Roll of Honour World War I              Crystal Harrison and Sylvia Heath

2008   A Hamlet on Cotswold: The History of the Manor of Througham Huw Jones

2007   Roman and Saxon Bisley                                                          Huw Jones

2006   The Vernacular Architecture and Buildings of Stroud and Chalford – Nigel Patterson                    ISBN 1-41209951-X

2006   The Turbulent History of a Cotswold Valley – the Upper Slad Valley and The Scrubs                           Patricia M Hopf            ISBN1-84588-116-8

2005   Sheepscombe – One Thousand years in this Gloucestershire valley     – Elisabeth Skinner                          ISBN 0-955118-0-3

2005   Cranham – the History of a Cotswold Village  – Cranham History Society – ISBN 0-9536339-2-6

2005   Memories of Stroud          Tamsin Treverton Jones ISBN 07524-3437-3

2004   Stroud 400                                                                             Ian Mackintosh

2004   Voices of Chalford, Bisley and Bussage                           Tamsin Treverton Jones

2003   Stroud’s Buses – a Centenary of Motorised Public Transport in the Stroud Valleys – N P Daniels

2003   The Stroud Navigation          Joan Tucker               ISBN 0-7524-2806-3

2003   Stroud’s Birthplace – Stroud Maternity Hospital               Diane Harris & Tracey Spiers                              ISBN 0-9533979-3-9

2001   Stroud Sings – the History of Stroud Choral Society 1834-2000  – Susan Freck ISBN 0-9541742-0-8

2001   Minchinhampton & Nailsworth Voices   Katie Jarvis   ISBN 0-7524-224-2-1

2000   Old Selsley              Stephen Bown

1999   Eastcombe Then and Now 1800-2000                              M D Lambert & E Crouch

1998   Lypiatt Park – a History of the House, its Owners and Architecture        Juliette Shipman

1997   More Marling Memories                        Oliver J Wicks           ISBN 0-9524930-1-2

1997   Forest Green Lily             Lilian Northwood and John Gardiner

1996   The Cotswolds – Life & Traditions      June Lewis  ISBN1-85799-955-X

1996   Painswick – Time Chart of a Cotswold Village  Carl Moreland  ISBN 0-9528214-1-9

1996   It Began in a Cottage – the Baptist cause in Chalford      compiled by Stanley Gardiner

1995   Survival & Revival –   Stroud during the War & Recovery Years.                     Joy Thacker               ISBN 09521760-1-7

1995   Randwick 1893-1993 – A Century of Change  Randwick Historical Association ISBN 09524907-0-6/09524907-1-4

1995   Travelling Along the Trail – a Collection of Stories for the people of Nailsworth                                Ann Makemson

1994   Stroud – Towns and Villages of England series  Philip Walmsley ISBN 0-7509-0589-1

1994   The Gold and Silver Threads - A Memoir of Life in the Twentieth Century –   Rhoda Cowen   ISBN 0-7509-0766-5

1994   High Old Times – a Pictorial Record to Celebrate  Ninety Years of Stroud High School for Girls         compiled by Susan Harrison  and Janet Maddocks ISBN 0-95223251-0-1

1993   The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds Mary Greensted        ISBN 0-7509-1165-4

1993   Whiteway Colony – The Social History of a Tolstyan Community                Joy Thacker            ISBN 0-9521760-0-9

1992   The Cotswolds at War                             June Lewis                 ISBN 0-7509-0048-2

1992   A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Gloucestershire               Association for  Industrial Archaeology   ISBN 0-9508448-6-1

1992   A Stroud Valley Childhood                                              Terry Jones                ISBN 07509 0257 4

1992   Anzacs over England – the Australian Flying  Corps in Gloucestershire 1918-1919.                       David Goodland and Alan Vaughan  ISBN 07509-0277-9

1991   Bisley – A Cotswold Village remembered 1860-1945    Juliette Shipman                              ISBN 0-9518294-0-8

1990   Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale – Nailsworth 1780-1865                        Albion M Urdnak     ISBN 0-05-200667-0

1989   The Gloucestershire Gentry                                     Joan Johnson            ISBN 0-86299-584-1

1989   The Hebrew Community of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud                Brian Torode

1988   Wings over Gloucestershire     John Rennison     ISBN 0-9514047-0-9

1987   The District of Stroud Guide                                                Stroud Council

1986   Village Heritage  ISBN 0-86299-263-X    &   1990   Village Camera           ISBN  0-86299-791-7                    Miss Pinnell with the help of the children of Sapperton School

1988   Amberley Parochial School – a history of a village school.   A Source Book   ISBN 0951-3592-0-7

1987   They Met in a Barn – the Story of  Congregationalism   in Stroud 1687-1987   Molly and Alfred Hoy  ISBN 0-9512202-0-9

1986   Marling School 1887-1987       Oliver J Wicks

1986   Randwick and Roundabout     Evelyn Pollard      ISBN 0-866299-042-4

1986   A Village of Parts – a History of Amberley Parish   Roy K Close  ISBN 0-9511658-0-1

1985   The Hills of Childhood                                                          Jean Kyle

1985   A Portrait of Nailsworth                                                        Betty Mills

1981   Royal Homes in Gloucestershire                                         Geoffrey Sanders and David Verey                                                                                                                               ISBN 0-904387-89-5

1980   The Village of Leonard Stanley                                           Anne Ortzen

1979   Chalford Place – a History of the House    and its clothier families                     Juliette Shipman

1979   The Stroudwater Canal                                                        Michael Handford

1979   Gloucestershire at War      Derek Archer               ISBN 0-905907-0-3-5

1978   Stroud As It Was                                                                   Joan Tucker

1976   The Stroudwater Canal  1729-1763  Michael Handford  ISBN 239.0015901

1976   The Plotter of Gloucester       Claire Toy                 ISBN 0-9505193-0-8

1974   A Desirable Object – the Story of the first 150 years of Stroud Baptist Church Oliver J Wicks

1974   Stroud Urban District Council 1894-1974                          Stroud District Council

1973   Stroud 1890-1915: A collection of early Stroud Photographs   John Stephens ISBN 0-9502757-0-0

1972   The Black Boy School, Stroud  1844-1914                       Ramon R Willey

1972   A History of Woodchester                                                    Rev. W N R J Back

1972   Memory Lane – a life story centred around a Cotswold  village and the surrounding district.              Laurie Parker

1970   Gloucester, Stroud & Berkeley   Edward Hayward       ISBN/582/15429/4

1970   The Buildings of England Gloucestershire The Cotswolds David Verey  ISBN 0-14-071040-X

1969   The Thames Severn Canal                               Humphrey Household  ISBN 7153 4475 7

1967   Gloucestershire Woollen Mills                                             J Tann

1964/5  Stroud Official Guide                                                          Stroud Council

1955    Gloucestershire- The making of the English Landscape H P R Finberg

1954   Education In Gloucestershire – A Short History                A Platts and G H Hainton

(On behalf of Gloucestershire Education Committee)

1938/66 The King’s England – Gloucestershire   Stroud and the Great War 1914-1919 Arthur Mee

Stroud News Publishing Co

1902   A brief History of The Thames & Severn Canal                Clerk to Gloucestershire County Council

1889   Churches & Views of Stroud and Neighbourhood            Ed Hulbert

1882   The Geology of Stroud                                                         Ed Witchell

Photograph and Postcard Books and Pamphlets:

 

2009   Another Way Home  – Words and Pictures celebrating Stroud Landscape Forward by Richard Mabey ISBN 978-1-906662-07-3

2009   Minchinhampton & Amberley Through Time Howard Beard       ISBN 978-1-84868047-0

2009   Playne’s: Anatomy of a Mill                                      Ian Mackintosh

2009   Woodchester Mansion: Augustus Pugin                            Liz Davenport

2009   Why was Woodchester Mansion Never Finished? – Plans post 1973 Liz Davenport

2008   Stroud Through Time   Howard Beard           ISBN 978-1-8468-039-5

2008   Medieval Buildings and Artefacts in and near Stroud       C N Harrison

2008   Beaudesert Park School – a Centenary History               John Hudson

2007   Painswick, St Mary’s Church – Guide and Tombstones and Monuments Gloucestershire Churchyard Conservation Project ISBN 978-0-9556315

2005   Time Flies in Landown                                                         Stephen Deproost

2005   Oakridge – A History Pat Carrick, Kay Rhodes, Juliet Shipman  ISBN 0-9540306-2-1

2005   Gloucestershire Pubs and Breweries                                 Tim Edgell and Geoff Sandles

2004   Stroud Streets and Shops    Wilf Merrett               ISBN 0-7524-3307-5

2003   Beautiful Buildings of Bisley                                                Harold Berkeley

2003   Stroud & District Photographic Memories             Howard Beard   ISBN 1-85937-796-3/-538-3

2000   350 years of Quakerism in Painswick                                Jim Hoyland

2000   In Retrospect Nailsworth   compiled by Howard Beard/Tony Gloster ISBN 07524-2071-2

2000   Frampton on Severn – Portrait of a Victorian Village       Rose Spence

1999   Around Stroud – The Story behind the Picture   Howard Beard            ISBN 0-7524-1577-8

1999   The Bisley Lock-Up – A Story of Crime and Punishment Juliette Shipman

1999   ‘One Hundred Not Out’ – Uplands County Primary School  1899-1999 Forward by Jack Russell

1999  Oil Lamp & Candle – Life in Eastcombe in the 30s & 40s          Phyllis Gaston

1999   The Dry Stone Walls in the Chalford Area             Janet Gaskell & Nigel Patterson

1998   Personalities Past and Present – the Uplands Connection         Pamela Tawse

1997  Painswick, Sheepscombe, Slad and Edge  Howard Beard           ISBN 0-7524-0788-0

1997   On Coppice Hill                                                                     Graham Hobbs

1996   Pubs of the Old Stroud Brewery   Wilf Merrett               ISBN 0-7524-0673-6

1996   Yesterday’s World – a nostalgic look at Old Uplands       Susan Harrison

1996   The Way it Was                                                                     Babs Bloomfield

1995   South Gloucestershire at  War      Peter Gill ISBN 0-7509-1133-6

1995   Five Stroud Photographers – Old Postcards   Howard Beard, Peter Harris and Wilf Merrett  ISBN 0-7524-0305-2

1995   Chalford and Sapperton                                                       compiled by Stanley Gardiner

1995   Ebley Village Bypass and Transport in Ebley                    C N Harrison

1993   The Stroudwater and Thames  &Severn Canal – in old photographs – collected by Edwin Cuss & Stanley Gardiner            ISBN 0-7509-0432-1

1991   Stroud – A Pictorial History     Joan Tucker                     ISBN 0-85033-778-X

1991   Pictures in the Fire                                                                Bunny Arkell

1991   Gloucestershire Mills in Camera                                         Stephen Mills& Pierce Reimer

1989   Stroud’s Golden Valley in Old Photographs S J Gardiner   and L C Palin  ISBN 0-86299-705-4

1989   Stonehouse to Painswick   collected by Alan Sutton  ISBN 086299-401-2

1988   Tetbury, Nailsworth and Minchinhampton in old photographs- collected by Alan Sutton

1987   Stroud Road and Rail in Old Photographs S J Gardiner and L C Palin   ISBN 0-86299-470-5

1986   A Cotswold Camera         Howard Beard             ISBN 0-948640-80-4

1986   Bisley, All Saints Church -    Identifiable Graves and Memorials Alan Swale

1984   Eastcombe – a Cotswold village in pictures Eastcombe 1500-1980    M D Lambert & Juliet Shipman ISBN 0-7049-0491-8

1984   Stroud and the Five Valleys in Old Photographs S J Gardiner and L C Palin    ISBN 0-86299-015-7

1984   Stroud and the Five Valleys in Old Photographs -a second selection    S J Gardiner and L C Palin.

1984   Stroud in Old Picture Postcards     Trevor A C Radway      ISBN 90-288-2817-6

1984   Chalford Blows a Century 1885-1985 – Chalford Silver Band.- David Goodwin and Ron Gardiner

1982   A Canal Walk Through Stroud – T Roberts & S Marshfield     ISBN 0-9504390-1-0

1981   Transport in the Cotswolds       David J Viner          ISBN 0-86067-066-X

1981   The Implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act in Stroud Joyce Longhurst

1975   The Thames & Severn Canal           David  J Viner             ISBN 0-902907-65-4

1824   Stroudwater – A local poem by W Lawrence

Other Publications relating to the area:

It all began with Moses                                                                     J V Smith

Ebley Chapel 1798-1998                                                                 C N Harrison

Leonard Stanley Remembered                                                       Leonard Stanley History Society

Stonehouse – a pot-pourri of the past in pictures             compiled by J H A Anderson

The Paganhill Maypole                                                                     Paganhill Maypole Society

A Short History of Standish Hospital 1915-1965

Jerusalem on Chapel Street                                                            Enid Airy, Claire Toy and others

They Took Up Arms – Stroud Home Guard                                   J Owen

Stroudwater – a local poem of 1824                                              W Lawrence (Stroud Library)

A State of the Case and Narrative of Facts -

The Rising of the Weavers in Stroud in 1757

Films, Videos, DVDs

Working for Victory – Living Memories of the Stroud District at War 1939-1945

The Duel and the Undiscovered Cotswolds                                   Stroud Video Makers Unit