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Reader's road woes
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (The following letter, from the May 1892 issue of the Thornbury Magazine, concerns cyclists and road maintenance and is typical of a number published around that time) Sir - I see in your last (March) issue an account of a meeting
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Cricket and the Grace phenomena
CRICKET was a very popular game in the district in late Victorian times. Thornbury was fortunate in being able to call on the talents of the famous Grace family. Details from just two of Thornbury's matches will serve to illustrate the formidable powers
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The Gazette in Thornbury continued
SO 125 years have flashed by in Thornbury since the Gazette first dropped off the press 12 miles "up the road" in Dursley. In 1878 only the craziest visionaries might have predicted the enormous changes that 125 years would bring, affecting every aspect
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Looking back at the way they were
1BIRTHS,MARIAGES AND DEATHS (We have chosen a few Births, Marriages and Deaths for individuals well known in or around the town and about whom we can make comment) Births: WILLCOX- April 14th, 1878. Robert James, son of Frank and Laura Willcox, at Manor
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A look at how things have changed during the years (1)
1Pictures from The Murray Dowding Collection, David Ireland and Matthew Bigwood Photography. Above: The Mill Brook, Chipping Sodbury 2Westerleigh Village 3Horse Street, Chipping Sodbury. 4Yate Rocks 5The ruins of the Great Hall, Yate Court 6Old bank in
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Schools founded, then become one
IN 1879 the local paper would have recorded the founding of Thornbury Grammar School and in the following year would have reported the opening of the first building on the new Gloucester Road site. In 1869 a report into the quality of senior level education
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A look at how things have changed during the years (2)
1Berkeley Town Hall and bank 2The Dursley Donkey in 1867 pictured 11 years before the arrival of the Gazette 3An old picture of Uley Green showing the Crown Inn and St Giles Church 4Dr Edward Jenner's birthplace in Berkeley 5A view showingLong Street
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In brief
SEVERE STORM: A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by very heavy rain, passed over this neighbourhood in the early hours of Saturday morning (May 28). Predicted in Eddington's Almanac. (The publication in which this item appeared was edited by a Mr. Eddington
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And in the rest of the world . . .
Some major events and occasions over the past 125 years 1878 Microphone was invented by American inventor David Edward Hughes. 1879 Sadlers Wells Theatre in London was reconstructed. The first steel merchant ship was built. The first electric light bulb
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Beginnings and endings mark period of massive evolution (continued)
1A yesteryear view of St Mary's Church, Wotton. 2The Culverhay looking towards the War memorial in the early 1920s 3Wotton firebrigade with the firecrew of the 1930s pictured outside the former firestation, which is now Wotton Heritage Centre 4Church
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Faces from the Gazette past
1Peter Bailey (right) studies special edition of the Gazette produced for the centenary open day in June, 1978. Pictured also are production director David Hatch (left), deputy foreman David Jones and editor John Cox. 2The old Imperial Press which still
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The Gazette in Thornbury
THE South Gloucestershire Chronicle was founded and published by Edward Brown at around the turn of the century - in 1901 or 1902 - from premises in High Street, Thornbury (now an antique shop). This Chronicle, which bore the sub title, Thornbury, Chipping
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The tragic death of brave young officer
ONE major news item that would have hit the headlines in Thornbury sometime in September, 1880, concerned the death of Lieut. Hector MacLaine, son of W. O. MacLaine of Kyneton House. This may have been announced as follows: Tragic Death of Brave Young
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Day trippers enjoy the thrill of rail travel
The coming of the railway to Thornbury, in 1872, had opened up a much wider world to the people of the district and railway excursions rapidly became very popular, as the following report from the Thornbury Magazine of 1892 shows A TRIP TO TORQUAY THE
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Recently found receipt reveals 1873 prices
THIS receipt from a number recently discovered in the town reveal a little of the workings of the legal system in 1873 and provides some interesting information on the price of food and drink some five years before the Gazette was born. Minor civil matters
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A look at how things have changed during the years (1)
1The Mill Brook, Chipping Sodbury 2Westerleigh Village 3Horse Street, Chipping Sodbury 4Yate Rocks 5The ruins of the Great Hall, Yate Court 6Old bank in Thornbury with the old pump in the foreground 7High Street, Chipping Sodbury 8Thornbury Market 9Memorial
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Beginnings and endings mark period of massive evolution
IN 1878, the year the Gazette first appeared, the Wotton weekly market closed down after 626 years. It was always held in the Stoney Chipping in front of the Town Hall. Also this year the Phoenix Permanent Building Society was established in Market Street
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A look at how things have changed during the years (2)
1More pictures from the Murray Dowding Collection, David Ireland and Matthew Bigwood photography. ABOVE: Berkeley Town Hall and bank 2The Dursley Donkey in 1867, pictured 11 years before the arrival of the Gazette 3Dr Edward Jenner's birthplace in Berkeley
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Transportation gets horse power
Walter Riddle of Oldbury-on-Severn, operator of the horse bus service from Thornbury to Patchway. The advertisement above is taken from a local directory for 1877.
