Formation of Gloucestershire Police
Sir Robert Peel’s 1839 Constabulary Act enabled counties to set up police forces paid out of the ...
Basket-making has always been an essential trade in the countryside in the days before cardboard and plastic packaging. The craft ...
Recently this bell was brought into the CCHS History Room by the son of Fred Badger’s cattleman, Maurice Howman. The ...
Campden was known for its cherry orchards, but like the rest of Gloucestershire and the ‘Three Counties’ (with Worcestershire and ...
Campden’s motto is ‘History in Stone’ and the oolitic limestone that is quarried around Campden is what gives the characteristic ...
Harry Bennett’s recollections of the sales of fleeces
… I did an interesting 3 days work at the local wool ...
Working with Cotswold stone
