THE beautiful town of Berkeley is celebrated in this week's nostalgia.

Berkeley is a market town and civil parish in the Stroud District.

It lies in the Vale of Berkeley between the east bank of the River Severn and the M5 motorway.

The town is noted for Berkeley Castle, where the imprisoned King Edward II is believed to have been murdered, as well as the birthplace of the physician Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, the world's first.

There is a wonderful picture of a very patriotic post office in Berkeley as well as the Berkeley Hunt pictured in Eastington in this week's selection which are all taken from the Facebook group Stroud Area Photographs and Cotswold Picture Postcards.

If you have any old photographs from the Gazette area please email them to matthew.holmes@newsquest.co.uk