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Campden at Work

  • 180 Years of Gloucestershire Police

    180 Years of Gloucestershire Police

    Formation of Gloucestershire Police Sir Robert Peel’s 1839 Constabulary Act enabled counties to set up police forces paid out of the ...
  • Basketmaking in Campden

    Basketmaking in Campden

    Basket-making has always been an essential trade in the countryside in the days before cardboard and plastic packaging.  The craft ...
  • Bell brings back memories

    Bell brings back memories

    Recently this bell was brought into the CCHS History Room by the son of Fred Badger’s cattleman, Maurice Howman.  The ...
  • Building and Construction

    Building and Construction

  • Cidermaking

    Cidermaking

    Campden was known for its cherry orchards, but like the rest of Gloucestershire and the ‘Three Counties’ (with Worcestershire and ...
  • Quarrying and Working with Stone

    Quarrying and Working with Stone

    Campden’s motto is ‘History in Stone’ and the oolitic limestone that is quarried around Campden is what gives the characteristic ...
  • Taking the fleeces to market

    Taking the fleeces to market

    Harry Bennett’s recollections of the sales of fleeces … I did an interesting 3 days work at the local wool ...
  • The Woodward Family

    The Woodward Family

    Working with Cotswold stone
  • Working Life in Photographs

    Working Life in Photographs

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