This page contains a list of key people and places in and near Stroud. Some links take you to pages within this website; other links may take you to the website of a different organisation.
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Berkeley Local History Society
Biddell, John Stratford Abbey Stratford Mill (flour-mill)
Brewery – Old Stroud Brewery Book
Brick & rolling pin competition
Browning family in Minchinhampton
Budding,Edwin, local mechanic who invented a first lawnmower. Lawn mower history
Budding, Edwin Beard biography
Bus Station, Stroud, Old; Stroud Buses history
Cainscross – The Lake at The Lawn
Canton, John – Stroud scientist
Carless, John, M.D., C.M. Physician, The Grange
Cemetery, Stroud Hill Stroud Town Council – Cemetery Leaflet Grave/monument inscriptions: Old Chapel – Chapel St, St Laurence old church and Stroud Cemetery
Chalford Parish Local History Group
Cheapside, Stroud – Wood & Rowe
Chestnut Hill, Nailsworth, Danecourt School, May 1917
Chew, James Professor of Music and Organist,
Chew, Thomas Liddiate – T L Chew and Sons, Medieval Iron Works, Stroud
Churches
- St Laurence Church, Stroud newspaper cuttings
- Stroud churches
- Stroud area churches
- Stroud catholic church and St Roses history
- Trinity Church, Stroud
- Book- The church by Stroud Hospital – The story of Holy Trinity, Stroud, by Philip Walmsley
Clissolds of Chestnut Hill, Nailsworth (and the WW1 Red Cross hospital there) – this link opens a separate window in our online cloud storage server
Cooke Alfred Square, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., House Surgeon and Secretary, General Hospital at the corner of Bedford and George
Cowle, William, in the cemetery, grocer, land speculator. Museum, Field Estate, Observatory. William Cowle and Stroud
Danecourt School, Chestnut Hill, Nailsworth, May 1917
Daniels, Thomas Henry & Joseph – Daniels T H & J, engineers, of the Lightpill Iron Works, Stroud. Daniels history
Documents and maps for research
Dorrington, Sir John MP of Lypiatt Park. Governor of Stroud General Hospital, Stroud Board of Guardians, Rural District, Chairman of the County Council, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions and a member of the Commission for Peace in the Country.
Dudbridge Stephen, Charted Accountant of Lansdown, Stroud Local Board of Health Stroud and District Trades Association
Dursley, Cam and Uley (also see Uley)
Ebley Mill history Ebley Mill – see the virtual tour on Flickr
Ferrabee family James, John, Henry – Phoenix Iron Works
Field Estate, Stroud – see also W Cowle
Fisher: Paul Hawkins Fisher and the Fisher family
Foster William nurseryman
Gloucestershire Pubs and Breweries website
Grigshott, Woodchester
Hackwood Thomas organist
Holloway, George MP, benefactor, Stroud Working Man’s Benefit Society
Holloway photos and items from Citizen archive
Holmes, George, cemetery superintendent
Hook –Lionel Hook and Sons Ltd of Stroud – engineering firm
Howell, John Selby Parish Clerk of Stroud & schoolmaster of the “Red Boys” Charity School, Market House (now the Old Town Hall).
Humpidge, James Dickinson, Engineer, Central Iron Works
Isacke John the first cemetery lodge-keeper and superintendent,
Isacke Family Misses Isacke – Stratford Abbey College
Jefferies Brickwork family In July 2015 we were given a box of family photographs and papers connected to the Jefferies brickworks in Dudbridge. Click the link to see the inventory and all the photos.
Lewis & Hole of Brimscombe then Dudbridge – Foundry
Minchinhampton and Avening –A history of the parishes – written in 1915
Minchinhampton Local History Group
Museum in the Park history – see also Stratford Park
Nailsworth, Chestnut Hill, Danecourt School, May 1917
Okey James, Boot Maker and Toy Dealer
Paine, William Henry, M.D., Corbett House, Stroud. Physician & reformer
Painswick Painswick Local History Society Painswick history Painswick Roads
Park Sidney, Draper & Chairman of the Streets and Lighting Committee.
Park Gardens, in Slad Road
Partridge, Dr Thomas, M.R.C.S., M.R.C.P.I; Medical Officer for the Urban District of Stroud and Nailsworth and the Rural District Council 1870
Plested Ingram, schoolmaster at the British School at Badbrook
Potter family and Standish Hospital
Randell, Alfred Luke: diary 1869-76
Randell, Geoffrey, High Bailiff of Stroud County Court. Secretary of the Stroud Building Society and the Stroud Provident Building Society.
Railway – Charles Richardson helps to bring the railway to Stroud
Rodborough Remembering Rodborough history project
Rodborough Charity School (originally called the Fort School) Rodborough Court & Apperley
Rodborough Fort Rodborough Fort Postcards Rodborough Tabernacle
Ruscombe, Bread Street, in the 1930s
Sapperton and Frampton Mansell
Schools
- School of Art windows – Lansdown
- Stroud college and Downfield schools
- History of Marling School, Stroud www.marling.gloucs.sch.uk
- History of Stroud Boys Technical School https://stroudboys-techschool-oba.co.uk/
- Stroud High School History http://stroudhigh.gloucs.sch.uk/School-Life/About-Us
- Stratford Abbey College see teachers buried in the cemetery
Sheepscombe Sheepscombe History Society
Shepheard Photograph Collection
Slimbridge Local History Society
Stratford Park Stratford Park history
Streets in Stroud in the early 1800s, and how they were named
Stroud history
Stroud & Swindon Building Society
Stroud Valley history
Stroud Home Front 1914 to 1919
Stroud Hospitals: Origins History Photo 1922
Subscription Rooms, Stroud Book – Stroud Subscription Rooms, by Marion Hearfield
Tappers Shop, King St, Stroud
Townsend Richard, of Thanet House. R Townsend & Stacey
Trade Adverts 1903 in Burrows’ Stroud Valley Illustrated
Uthwatt Edolph Andrew, Consulting Surgeon at the General Hospital in George Street
Wall Joshua, sculptor
Whitefield and Whitefield’s Tump
Williamson David, a Wholesale Clothes Manufacturer. Williamson, Tratt and Co. Cheapside (later Hill Paul Co)
Winterbotham family – solicitors & Bank House & Bank House Gardens
Winterbotham, Strachan and Playne
Witchell family Edward, Edwin & Percy, Witchell and Sons, Solicitors, Lansdown
Withey William Henry, of Upper Gannicox Stroud, son of James Withey, the well-known grocer at 55 High Street. Property developer & Commissioner of the Turnpikes
Woodchester Woodchester Companies Woodchester Piano Works Woodchester Saw Mills
Woodchester Mansion and Park Woodchester Roman villa Woodchester Historical Society
Wotton-under-Edge Historical Society & Heritage Centre
Wyatt, Richard Barrister, J.P