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Newsletters are published three times each year, and include reviews of Society talks and events, short articles researched by members, book reviews, Society and volunteer news, and other items of interest. The Editor, Kath Boothman, can be contacted by clicking here.
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November 2024 no.110
Visit to the Holst Victorian House | Oriana Souper (later Wilson), Lady Matron at Suffolk Hall | David Lyall (1817-1895), Antarctic explorer and botanist | Obituary Dr Anne Dunn | Advertising in the Victorian Age: trade cards found at Sandhurst | Alderman George Parsonage | Insurance for Victorian Working Women | New publications: The Windmills of Bristol and Gloucestershire by M J A Beacham and Guy Blythman, and Churches of Gloucestershire by Nicola Coldstream
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July 2024 no.109
Lodge gates, Park Estate | Painswick House and Casino House in the 19th Century | Cheltenham Literature Festival | New publication: The Anglican Churches and Clergy of Cheltenham
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March 2024 no.108
Delancey Hospital window | Family history: will of Daniel Regan | Cheltenham South Town project | Cavendish House 1818 – 2024 | Charlton Kings LHS and the GlosDocs Project | Mystery Marker: boundary stones
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November 2023 no.107
New online: Chronologies | Book review: The History of Leckhampton Church (3rd edition) by Eric Miller | Reclaiming Cheltenham’s river | Death of a smallholder: an inventory from 1684 | Schools interaction | David Lyall’s Memories of Cheltenham | New book: Walking through the history of Bishops Cleeve by David Aldred | Cheltenham Lawn Tennis Club | The Great Escape picnic at Cotswold Airport
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July 2023 no.106
AGM report | New online: Brian Torode Archive | PocketApps walk on the South side: The Suffolks | Obituary: Peter Barlow | Memories of York and Union Streets and the Alstone Baths | Miss B Roberts and the Hospital Egg Day | A Cheltenham Pharmacy Advertisement from 1910-1912 | A chance meeting in Carlisle with Dean Close | A mysterious window at the Delancey Hospital | Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation 200th Anniversary
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March 2023 no.105
Obituary: Mike Grindley | New online newspapers, directories and transcriptions | Arts Council award: Jill Waller | Volunteer update and the story of Payne, Polley and Chirm | Local History in old Photographs | Dr John Abercrombie: friend of Dr Edward Wilson and co-founder of the Photographic Society
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November 2022 no.104
GLHA Summer Afternoon | Anniversary celebration | Local Studies Library | A House through Time: 25 Lansdown Place | Heir Hunters and Dunalley School | A Chronology of Trade and Industry in Cheltenham New edition 2022 | A Small Item of Cheltenham Museum Memorabilia | Proclamation of a New King
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July 2022 no.103
GLHA Local History Day | Heritage Open Days 2022 | ‘Curry and Colonels’ walk | The Latest Blue Plaque [to Alfred Miles] | Memorial to Katherine A’Court, Part 2 | Cheltenham and the Crimean War | Cheltenham’s Connection with the Opium Trade
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March 2022 no.102
AGM Report | Mary Delany’s Picture | Obituary: James Hodsdon | The Collector of Boggley–Wollah | Memorial to Katherine A’Court part 1 | Book review: ‘He Went About Doing Good’: The Life of Dr Edward Thomas Wilson of Cheltenham
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November 2021 no.101
Cheltenham’s Boot and Shoemakers | The Robins painting (cover picture) | The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson | A General Cheltenham Guide 1818 | Another historic photograph | Four Weddings and too many Funerals
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July 2021 no.100
The Cycling Cherubs | Göttingen link | And the Name of the Unknown Man is… | The earliest view of Cheltenham? | The Holst Victorian House | Shillings were made round to go round …… | Leckhampton Yesteryear | Obituary Aylwin Sampson | The Blacksmith’s Tomb | Heritage Open Days | The Joy of Pantomime
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March 2021 no.99
Heritage Open Days 2021 | Obituary Geoffrey North | The Bombing of Kipling Road | You’ve Got Me Thinking The Autobiography of Amina Daphne Chatwin 1927-2016 | John Higgs, Pig–Killer | Dr Thomas Christie | Election Results in Cheltenham
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November 2020 no.98
Covid Lockdown @ The Hub | The Oral History Project | Covid, Vaccination and the Medical Men of St George’s Place | Nathaniel Smith & Wychbury | Glimpses of Cheltenham | A Life of Riley? | Leckhampton LHS Research Bulletin | The End of the Sky | Joan Cooke, a woman who ‘Lived Famous to her End’
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July 2020 no.97
The Ginner–Mawer School of Dance and Drama 1947–54 | What were you doing on VE Day? | Richard Liddell, from Cook to Hotel–Keeper | A Leap of Faith: Christ Church’s Italian apse | ‘Cheltenham Hall’— a Unique Reference ? | Pigeon–gate—the Royal Old Well Gates at The Crippetts | Obituary: Brian White | The Brian Jerrard Award 2019
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March 2020 no.96
Rock House Revisited | ‘Use it or lose it’ – Local Studies Library at risk! | Adam Lindsay Gordon ate my hamster!? Now for the true story | What’s in a name? | The location of a George Rowe painting revealed | Remembrance of Things Past: the Chain Library and the Milk Bar
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November 2019 no.95
‘Conspicuously Marked’: Vehicle Registration in Gloucestershire, 1903–13 | Yet another Cheltenham! – Pennsylvania | Scrapbooks: Wynnifred Mary Ellis | The Hall, Montpellier | The Mysterious Richard Liddell | 1919 in Cheltenham and Nationwide | Oops! the Bishop of Gloucester and the Sherborne Street sweep
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July 2019 no.94
Another Cheltenham – New Zealand | Blue plaque to James Forbes-Robertson | AGM 2019 | The Resident and Lake House | Obituary: Judy Smith
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March 2019 no.93
Another Cheltenham – NSW Australia | Obituary: Derek Rowles | Book launch: The Indomitable Mr Cotham Missioner, Convict Chaplain and Monk | Research and Display Evening |Society Members Meet Royalty: opening of the Heritage Hub | Obituary: Catriona Smith | We will remember them…the Byard family | Twinning helps research: Göttingen
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November 2018 no.92
VCH Short: Cheltenham before the Spa | St Andrew’s Local History Afternoon: ‘Salubritas et Eruditio‘ | Obituary: Joyce Cummings | Obituary: Elaine North | Two First World War Postcards | WWI battlefield crosses in Cheltenham | Historic photographs: Cheltenham post office staff and police officers
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July 2018 no.91
Between the Wars: Life in Gloucestershire 1919-1939 GLHA Local History Day | AGM 2018 | Cheltenham’s War Memorial painting goes on display |Blue plaque to Florence Earengey | Railway Correspondence and Travel Society: plaque | The end of another era: Leckhampton convenience store
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March 2018 no.90
A U-turn at the Pump Room | Cheltenham’s Forgotten War Memorial Painting: CLHS’s contribution to the ‘Cheltenham Remembers’ Project | National Railway Society founded in Cheltenham 90 years ago | Outward Bound for New Zealand…. Or not…? Philip Greenway | Blue Plaque: Dame Sidney Browne | CLHS Facebook page | Alfred Miles (1853-1932) and ‘his life’s work’ | Down Memory Lane: the Society in 1988 | Obituaries: Reginald Nidd and Richard Lacock | Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds | Charity in 17th Century Minsterworth
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November 2017 no.89
Blue plaque: Dorothea Beale | Robert Bruce Foot: ‘Father of Indian Pre-history’ | Obituary: John Guilor | Lower Alstone Mill | Friends of Pittville Queen’s Award | BGAS Library | ‘….with much dread’ : An early casualty of The Ladies’ College
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July 2017 no.88
Friends of Pittville Queen’s Award | Obituary: Ron Prewer | ‘Gardens for Food, Fun and Flowers’: GLHA Local History Day | Arts’ Council award: Neela Mann | AGM 2017 | Accidental light on the date when Cheltenham’s Great House was erected | GWR Gates and Railings from the Travis Perkins Site
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March 2017 no.87
Recasting of The Minster bells | Obituary: Dorothy Seton-Smith | Research and Display Evening | Fire Insurance Policies: an under-used resource for local history | Amina Chatwin: a postscript | Obituary: Roger Jones | Something a little different in Cheltenham’s WW2 local press: rheumatic elephants and other stories
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November 2016 no.86
St Andrew’s Local History Afternoon ‘Women of Cheltenham’ | ‘All persons shall be kindly entertained as usual’ Cheltenham in the (old) news | Cheltenham’s Looker-On: the ‘missing’ volume | Historical snippet from Minsterworth
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July 2016 no.85
Five noteworthy women of Cheltenham | Book launch: Cheltenham in the Great War by Neela Mann | From Rajahs to Rogan Josh | AGM 2016 | Obituary: Amina Chatwin | Past Crimes and Misdemeanours in Minsterworth
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March 2016 no.84
Research and Display Evening | Decorative Stones in the Church of St. Gregory, Cheltenham | Cheltenham in the Great War – the Story behind the Book | 1716-2016 – Time for a Tercentenary! | Minsterworth’s Senior Citizen | Jane Cook: An Extraordinary Cheltenham Lady part 4
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November 2015 no.83
‘ Immigration and Emigration to, from and within Gloucestershire’ GLHA Local History Day | | Jane Cook: An Extraordinary Cheltenham Lady part 3 | Teas and Talks fundraisers for VCH | Peter Smith award: Elaine and Geoff North | Historic England Angel Award for Pittville Gates Project | Cheltenham’s Slave Owners |Brawls, Bills and Blunderbusses: territorial disputes in 16th and 17th century Cheltenham
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July 2015 no.82
From Pittville to Printing: a new display in the Paper Store at The Wilson | Formal opening of the Pittville Gates | Blue plaque: Dr Grace Billings | AGM 2015 | Jane Cook: An Extraordinary Cheltenham Lady part 2 | Cheltenham and the Men in their Flying Machines
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March 2015 no.81
South Cheltenham—200 Years of Trading History | Reflections on ohe History of the Plough | New publication An Artist’s Life by Marilyn Swann | Jane Cook: An Extraordinary Cheltenham Lady part 1 | Cheltenham Camera Club 150th Anniversary | Discovering Early Modern Cheltenham (VCH)
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November 2014 no.80
Pittville Gates | ‘The Effects of World War I on Gloucestershire Communities’ GLHA Local History Day | A look at Apprentices | Local History Day ‘Cheltenham Life 1914–1919’ | The War Memorial in the Promenade: restoration work | The Trials of Transcribing | ‘Unruly Behaviour’ in 17th Century Cheltenham
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July 2014 no.79
Local History Afternoon: Cheltenham Life 1914-19 | AGM summary | Snippets, Skippets and a Big Red Book: volunteer group | The Bath Road mural | Obituary: Brian Torode | Cheltenham’s first Music Festival | New publication: Cheltenham Heritage Walks by David Elder |
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March 2014 no.78
Decorative stones in Cheltenham Part 3: Fake marbles | World War I Museum | Victoria County History – Signs of Spring! | A Journey from London to Cheltenham in 1816 | Drill Clubs for girls | From the Archives : inventory of the goods of Leonard Church, husbandman, of Woodmancote | Charles Sturt (1795-1869) Explorer of Australia
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November 2013 no.77
GLHA Local History Day: Gloucestershire’s Special Houses | Heroism at Nazareth: Gloucestershire Boy Awarded the Military Medal in 1918 | Visitors from Göttingen | An 18th Century Traveller in Gloucestershire: Arthur Young | Pittville Gates Restoration | Obituary: Richard Smith | Decorative Stones in Cheltenham Part 2: Town Centre
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July 2013 no.76
A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects by Steve Blake | AGM report | BALH Regional Conference: Cheltenham | Calling All Writers – Are You Claiming Secondary Royalties? | Cheltenham revealed: the town and tithing plan of c. 1800 by Carolyn Greet & James Hodsdon | Pittville Gates | Dedication of St Paul’s Practising School WWII Memorial Board | Decorative Stones in Cheltenham Part 1: Churches
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March 2013 no.75
Cheltenham Then & Now by Sue Rowbotham and Jill Waller | The Heir Hunters come to Cheltenham | Summerfield support for two Cheltenham projects | St Mary’s attains Minster Status | Early Medicine in Minsterworth (and elsewhere) | Obituary: Derek Shorthouse
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November 2012 no.74
Local History Afternoon: Consulting Local History Resources | Light the Beacon! | Victotia County History | What can we learn from lists and inventories? The Union Workhouse Infirmary | Miles Scrapbooks – volunteers | Pittville Gates Restoration Project | St Mary’s Parish Records Transcription Project 1558-1804 | Obituary: Ron Prewer
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July 2012 no.73
Blue Plaque: Francis Close |Armorial shield on the chancel screen of SS Philip and James Church, Leckhampton | AGM 2012 | The Susan Newton Memorial Lecture | A Cheltenham Childhood in World War II | Scott Centenary Commemoration Service at St Paul’s Cathedral
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March 2012 no.72
Pittville Park lake – pedestrian bridge | Research and Display Evening – 30th anniversary | A Cheltenham Childhood in World War II | CLHS Latin Group | Obituary : Jane Sale | The Hoare Sundial, Dean Close School | A Cheltonian on the Titanic
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November 2011 no.71
Everyman Theatre refurbishment | Montpellier Fiesta | GRCC Local History Afternoon: Gloucestershire Communities in the Second World War | A Cheltenham Childhood in World War II | Lloyd George Survey of Land Values, 1909 | Obituary: Leslie Burgess | Rowena Cade and ‘Ellerslie’ | New Publication: A Theatre For All Seasons – The History Of The Everyman Theatre | Obituary: Graham Baker
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July 2011 no.70
The Hooper Sundial at Dean Close School | AGM 2011 | A Message from our new Chairman, David Scriven | Obituary: Susan Newton, Chairman of CLHS 2003-2011 | A Cheltenham Childhood in World War II | ‘Lloyd George’ Survey of Land Values – volunteers | St Mary’s Cheltenham Parish Records Project | Obitiaries: Norman Bailey & Peter Levy
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March 2011 no.69
Research and Display Evening | Amyddst ye fflowres I tell ye Houres: Cheltenham Ladies’ College sundial | Launch of The Court Books of the Manor of Cheltenham 1692-1803 edited by James Hodsdon | Central School Magazines | Mineral Water Syphons: Cheltenham Spa Mineral Water Company & Lansdown Table Water Works | Obituary: Patrick Conoley, Sculptor of Pittville Pump Room Figures
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November 2010 no.68
Local History Afternoon: Nick Barratt | GLHA Afternoon: A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work: Workers’ Movements in Gloucestershire | In the Footsteps of George Rowe | BBC History Festival in Gloucester | A Historical Snippet from Minsterworth | Blue Plaque: Surgeon-General William Manley VC, CB, of the Royal Artillery | Brian White on Radio Gloucestershire | Obituary: Brett Harris
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July 2010 no.67
What happened to children during the first world war when their schools were home to wounded soldiers? | AGM 2010 | Grovefield House near Cheltenham and Captain James Pritchit of the Warwickshire Militia by Phyllis White | Keith Smith Discovers Cheltenham ‘Down Under’ | Saxon life discovered on the new All Saints’ Academy site | Photos: BALH Awards at the Imperial War Museum to Carolyn Greet and Kath Boothman | First Peter Smith award to Vic Coles
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March 2010 no.66
How An Old Cheltonian Saved The Irish Wolfhound | Obituary: Mary Paget | Edward Wilson memorabilia | Obituary: Connie Fisher | The New Public Art Register and Trails | Restored World War I honours board from St Paul’s Practising School
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November 2009 no.65
‘Housing the Poor: Social Housing for All’ Local History Afternoon | A Historical Snippet from Minsterworth | CLHS helps to purchase Wilson Papers | Opening of the Jenner Gardens | Victoria Cross Blue Plaques: Mr William Fraser McDonell of the Bengal Civil Service, A/Lt.Col Richard Annesley West, The North Irish Horse and Capt Anketell Moutray Read, The Northamptonshire Regiment | St Monica’s Home for Girls
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July 2009 no.64
The Lediards and Whatleys of Gloucestershire: A Holst Family History | Gloucestershire Rural Community Council summer meeting at Northleach | AGM 2009 | Our new Treasurer | Launch of The Commemorative Plaques of Cheltenham by Peter Smith & Sue Rowbotham | Jenner Gardens | Obituary: Eva Bailey | Gloucestershire & District Archaeological Research Group: grant for LIDAR project | Obituary: Eric Woodhead | Penfold letterboxes: locations
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March 2009 no.63
Research & Display evening | Reminiscences of the life of Wilfred M Appleby | Reburial in France for World War I Soldiers | Obituary: John Brasher | Jenner Gardens | Unveiling of the restored Crimean War Memorial | Nonconformist chapels
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November 2008 no.62
A new Society website | St Andrew’s Local History Afternoon: the town crier | Gloucestershire Local History Afternoon Poets and Writers in Gloucestershire | More on the Town Clock | The wonders of email: US enquirers and Pates family history | Roel puppets | Jenner Gardens repairs and landscaping | Obituary : Susanne Fletcher | New plaque: first successful parachute descent | 2007 floods
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July 2008 no.61
St Andrew’s Local History afternoon | Obituary: William Leonard Aucutt | Memories of the Town Clock | AGM report 2008 | Sundials in Gloucestershire | Line by Line: 250 years of drawing Cheltenham | Holst Statue Unveiled | How Cheltenham people were taken for a ride: stage coaches | Obituary: Brian Frith
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March 2008 no.60
Midsummer in Montpellier | Obituaries: Howard Roy Davis, Pauline Bradstock | New plaque: the Centenary Celebration of International Rugby League | More on Barnby Bendall | 81-year old John Hyett shares his memories of Pittville | Jenner Gardens | Dowty at Arle Court | ‘Jeeves’ – the Cheltenham connection
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