Luftwaffe bombing raids
John Penney from Bristol has spent many years researching Luftwaffe operations in the area of the County of Avon, and some of the material he has amassed covers the raids on Cheltenham in 1940. The town was mentioned in Luftwaffe post raid documentation, and copies of this, plus John’s summarised notes of the bombing raids, are available to members on request.
The Cheltenham Charity Organisation Society
Polly Baynes gave a lively talk to CLHS on the history of the Cheltenham Charity Organisation Society (see page 4 of our July 2023 Newsletter for a review of the talk). Polly has kindly shared her dissertation with us, and this is available on request to members.
Cheltenham Gas Works images
CLHS received a donation of a box of lantern slides of Cheltenham Gas Works, and Jill Waller has made copies of the images which are available to members as jpg files. These comprise views of the site and technical drawings of the workings. The lantern slides have been deposited at Gloucestershire Archives and a small selection of the images are shown here as examples.