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Journal 40 (2024)
Cheltenham’s Lost Heritage Revisited, Part 3: Oliver Bradbury | Moving around Cheltenham in the 1680s: John Chandler | The A40 road between Cheltenham and Oxford: Peter Fitchett | Cheltenham’s First Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson: David Elder | Cheltenham’s Mastery of Puppets: Phillippa Turner | Photo essay: A glance at Cheltenham Letter Boxes | Opium, Rhubarb Root and a Barbarian Eye Doctor: Jim Markland | Norman Pett, ‘Jane’ and their Cheltenham connections: David Drinkwater | The Life and Challenges of James Boodle (1809-1866), Cheltenham solicitor and Liberal party agent: Jane Whittaker | Cheltenham Minster – Rope Markers Revealed: Jill Waller | Books, Articles and Webpages on the History of Cheltenham noted in 2023: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Recent Accessions relating to Cheltenham, catalogued in 2023: Oliver Pointer
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Journal 39 (2023)
Naunton Park – Cheltenham’s ‘Garden of Eden’: David Elder | Cheltenham’s Forgotten Heavy Industry – the Lansdown Industrial Estate: Jill Waller | A ‘Fountain of Salvation’ – Holy Trinity Church: Alan Munden | Edith Geddes: Councillor and Peace Campaigner – builder of a better world: Adrian Courtenay | CLHS at 40: Kath Boothman | Queen Elizabeth II and Cheltenham: David Elder | John Dower House and Latheram House – a tribute to James Hodsdon: edited by Julie Courtenay | Books, Articles and Webpages on the History of Cheltenham noted in 2022: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: New Accessions for Cheltenham in 2022: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 38 (2022)
‘A Human Dynamo’ – Alfred James Miles (1853 – 1932): Sally Self | Researching ‘Taking the Waters’: Lesley Sainty | Vignettes, a Viscount and Votes: Cheltenham’s League of Nations Union – the middle years: Adrian Courtenay | The Versatile Samuel Bendall: Sailor on a Slave-ship, Well-sinker and Repentant Sinner: Eric Miller | Church and chapel attendance in Cheltenham in 1882: Alan Munden | A Quaker in 18th Century Prestbury: Beryl Elliott | The Cheltenham Cricket Festival: Joanna Vials and Chris Bentall | Recent Books, Articles and Webpages on the History of Cheltenham, 2020: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: New Accessions for Cheltenham in 2020: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 37 (2021)
Mr Seward’s Ingenious Exhibition of the Fantoccini at Cheltenham: the talented Seward family – musicians, actors, acrobats, dancers, puppeteers, painters: Peter Clifford | ‘An Acre of Violets’ – The Market Gardens of Kingsditch and Neighbourhood: Sally Self | Theodora Mills – a voice to be heard: Adrian Courtenay | ‘Young Zamiel Gripeall’: Controversial Cheltenham Newspaper Proprietor and Hotelier: Mark Davies | Potteries, Tiles and Brickmaking in Leckhampton (Part 2): Eric Miller | Was Jane Barker a ‘Sabbath-breaker and adulteress’?: Alan Munden | Recent Books, Articles and Webpages on the History of Cheltenham in 2019: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: New Accessions for Cheltenham 2020: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 36 (2020)
The Forgotten Half? How Cheltenham men supported the women’s campaign for the vote: Sue Jones | ‘The Greatest Crusade of all – the Crusade for World Peace’: Cheltenham and the League of Nations Union, 1920-21: Adrian Courtenay | The Quaker Burial Ground in Grove Street: Jill Waller | ‘Éclat to our town unprecedented and pleasing’: the first air balloon ascent from Cheltenham in 1813: Mark Davies | Potteries, Tiles and Brickmaking in Leckhampton: Eric Miller | ‘Bracing Qualities’: Pittville’s Outdoor Swimming Baths: James Hodsdon | The Moorend Grotto discovered: Eric Miller | Photographic competition | Recent Books, Articles and Webpages on the History of Cheltenham in 2019: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: New Accessions for Cheltenham 2019: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 35 (2019)
Cheltenham’s Zoo Wars: Proposed Zoological Gardens in Pittville and The Park in the 1830s: Stuart Manton | Dr Wilson and His Friends: Eric Miller | John Coates Carter: a late flourishing of the Arts & Crafts in Cheltenham: Dr Alec Hamilton | Early emigrants from Cheltenham to New Zealand: kindred spirits?: James Hodsdon | ‘A Forceful Personality’: William Gyde, c.1779 – 1867: Graham Gyde | The Development of Cheltenham, 1895-1947: David Drinkwater | Paradise Lost? Exploring Cheltenham’s Anglo-India Connections: Jim Markland | ‘The First Policewomen of Cheltenham: in Wartime and Peacetime, 1918-1945: Dr Clifford Williams | Photo competition for 2018 | Recent Books, Articles and Webpages on the History of Cheltenham, 2018: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham New Accessions 2018: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 34 (2018)
Cheltenham’s Lost Heritage Revisited: Part 2; with Addendum to Part 1: Oliver Bradbury | The Staffing of the Chapels of Medieval Cheltenham: Michael Greet | Joseph Dunton, Part 2, Photography and Fireworks: Julian Holland | Black and White in Cheltenham: John Chandler | Cheltenham’s Theatres, 1805 Onwards: Part 2: James Ritchie | Cheltenham Town Council: Digitising the Committees’ Minutes, 1888-1937: David Drinkwater | Plantocrats and Rentiers: Cheltenham’s Slave-owners: Eric Miller | ‘Keape a mastye dawge or byche …’: Jill Barlow | ‘Did Cut and Cast Down His Bone’: Law and Order, 16th and 17th Century: Alex Craven | Errata – ‘Being Divine’: Sarah Bernhardt | Recent Books, Articles and Webpages on the History of Cheltenham, 2017: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham New Accessions 2017: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 33 (2017)
Joseph Dunton (1810-1886) Par 1, Archery Entrepreneur: Julian Holland | ‘The Elephant That Never Was, or There’s One Born Every Minute: Carolyn Greet | Cheltenham Hospital Appeals, 1928: Sally Self | J.R. Page, Wood & Coal Dealer and Carlton Place, Cheltenham: David Viner | Cheltenham’s Lost Heritage Revisited, Part 1: Oliver Bradbury | One of Cheltenham’s Last Indigo Planters: Eric Miller | Curtain Up – Cheltenham’s Theatre, 1758-1803: James Ritchie | ‘Somewhat advantageous’: Thomas Hughes’ Arrival in Cheltenham, 1741: James Hodsdon | The Brook House, Alstone and Later Rossley Gate, Dowdeswell: Rose Hewlett | James Hill and Son, Stone Masons of Cheltenham, 1650-1734: Jill Waller | Was John Wesley Not Holy Enough?: Anthea Jones | Cheltenham Hospital Appeal 1934: Sally Self | Books and Articles on Cheltenham 2016: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham New Accessions 2016: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 32 (2016)
People and Places of Plantagenet Cheltenham: James Hodsdon | ‘A Man of Quick Sympathy’: Reverend John More, 1840-1910: Caroline Sherwood | ‘Done is a Battel on the Dragon Black’? The Chapels of the Medieval Church in Cheltenham: Michael Greet | Remembering St James and Malvern Road Stations: David Aldred | ‘That Lady in Grey’: Blanche Percival’s Contribution to Cheltenham, 1939-1966: Virginia Adsett | ‘In the Mault House’: Four Centuries of Malting and Brewing in Cheltenham: Sally Self | John Joyner, Photographer and Artist: Eric Miller | Volunteering at Gloucestershire Archives: Sally Self | Cheltenham’s First Music Festivals: Graham Lockwood | ‘… an Intolerable Croud in the Streets’, From the Correspondence of William Baker: Alex Craven | Books and Articles on Cheltenham 2015: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham New Accessions 2015: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 31 (2015)
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Cheltenham 1871-1914: Sue Rowbottom | Henry of Up Hatherley – A Tale of 14th Century Injustice: Eric Williams | Dr Grace Billings (1872-1957): Cheltenham’s First Lady Practitioner: Anthea Jones | Domenico Dragonetti Joseph Barnett, Musician & Teacher (1839-1911): April Marjoram | Lord Dartmouth, ‘the one who wears a coronet & prays’ and the 18th Century Religious Revival in Cheltenham: Alan Munden | ‘1720 and All That’: Sally Self | Cheltenham Grammar School Fifty Years Ago: David Aldred | Breakfast for a Penny: Leopold’s, Bakers and Confectioners – Part 2 Bob Leopold | William Montague Gardner, Sculpter and Engraver (1804-1873) and his Circle: Eric Miller | Celebrating Cheltenham Photographers: Sue Rowbotham | Words of Encouragement and Appreciation: Memories from the Second World War: Virginia Adsett | Seton Peacey and his ‘Epic of a Cheltenham Family: David Elder | The Restoration Inn and John Dobell & Co, 1836-1953: Joyce Cummings & Vic Cole | Recent Books & Articles on the History of Cheltenham 2014: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham New Accessions 2014: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 30 (2014)
Breakfast for a Penny : Leopold’s, Bakers and Confectioners – Part One: Bob Leopold | St Gregory’s Catholic Church First World War Memorial :Christopher Bentall | Cheltenham’s Royal Statues: Eric Miller | From Pittville to Parliament : The Career of Robert Stokes: James Hodsdon | Correction to Howletts of Cheltenham : Jewellers & Watch & Clockmakers article Journal 29 | Two Sad Stories: Mick Kippin | ‘Apathetic’ Women? Who Supported the Womens Suffrage Movement in Cheltenham: Sue Jones | Cheltenham & the Men in Their Flying Machines: Amina Chatwin & Steve Osmond | Howletts of Cheltenham: Jewellers and Watchand Clock Makers: Eric Miller | The Great House Delineated: Anthea Jones | Race for the Cheltenham Stakes 1868: Geoff North| Recent Books & Articles on the History of Cheltenham 2013: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives Accessions 2013: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 29 (2013)
Thirty Years and Counting: Elaine & Geoff North | Who Screened the First Talkie in Cheltenham?: John Elliott | Beer But No Skittles: David Powell, Tavern-Keeper in Jacobean Cheltenham: James Hodsdon | George Freeman, Fundholder of 6 Bayshill Villas: David Aldred | Faggots and Peas: the Lower High Street: Joyce Cummings | The Penfold Pillar Boxes of Cheltenham: Richard Popplewell | Carroll’s Adventures in Cheltenham: Sue Rowbotham | Endeared to Friends and Pupils Alike: the Tiesset and Gonez Families, 1836 -1884: Joanna Vials | Where is it now? Cheltenham’s Old ‘Cold Bath’: Amina Chatwin | Howletts of Cheltenham: Jewellers and Watch and Clock Makers: Eric Miller | History in the Unmaking: Pittville Gates Are Dismantled: Judie Hodsdon | Carlton Place, Cheltenham: Heather Atkinson | Linking the Records: the Apothecary’s Tale: Sally Self | Recent Books and Articles on the History of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archive: Cheltenham Area Acquisitions 2012: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 28 (2012)
Members of Parliament for Cheltenham 1832 – 1924: Martin Horwood & Anthea Jones | Cheltenham’s Olympic connections: Sue Rowbotham | Edward Wilson; his life in Cheltenham: David Elder | In search of The Calculating Boy, George Parker Bidder 1806 – 1878: Eric Miller | Cheltenham – 30 years of development: Sally Self | Cheltenham’s Mr Music; Arthur Cole: Leslie Burgess | Shackleford’s Railway and Carriage Works, Albion St and St James : Eric Miller | Reverend Doctor Andrew Morton Brown and a Welsh connection: David Aldred | The dangers of being a Nosey Parker: 1516: Anthea Jones | William Penn Gaskell, 1808-1882: Derek Benson | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham area accessions, 2011: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 27 (2011)
Strip Cultivation in Cheltenham during the mid-19th century: Eric Miller | A missing pigeon?: Sally Self | A Chronology of Normandy House 1800 – 2009: Joyce Cummings | The Diary of Capt James Shrub Iredell 1793 – 1872: Jill Barlow | Pigsties or a green silk satin suit? Cheltenham probates 1660 – 1740: Sally Self | ‘A grand entrance’: the Pittville Gates, Cheltenham: James Hodsdon | Cheltenham Cartoons 1897-1901: Sally Self | Cheltenham in 1799 and the sale of the Essex Lands: Carolyn Greet | From Coltham to Little Bath: Satirical views of Cheltenham David Elder | The “Back of” series of addresses: Mick Kippen | Memories of a Cheltenham evacuee: Norman Willis | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham area accessions, 2010: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 26 (2010)
A century of change: Cheltenham in the 1700s: James Hodsdon | Oakley Farm: Mary Daniel | Railway Mania in Cheltenham: Part 1: Eric Miller | Rodin’s sojourn at Cheltenham: Roger Beacham | St Paul’s Practising School Memorial Board: a rededication: Ron Prewer | The Workhouse system 1834-1929: Did it really help the Poor?: Heather Atkinson | Housing the poor: Social housing for all: Sally Self | Medical assistance to the Poor in nineteenth century Cheltenham: Christine Seal | The Members of Parliament for Cheltenham 1928-2005: Martin Horwood & Anthea Jones | More about the Cheltenham Horticultural Society in the 1850s: Geoff North | The History of the cinema in Cheltenham Part two: 1900 to 1910: John Elliott | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham area accessions, 2009: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 25 (2009)
The Ghost of Garden Reach: Mick Kippen | Samuel Whitfield Daukes 1811 – 1880: Architectural hero or rogue?: Alec Hamilton | The Origins of Pittville Park: an outline chronology: Steven Blake | The opening of Cheltenham ‘s Public Library and Schools of Science and Art,1889: Geoff & Elaine North | Prestbury’s fields & roads in the 18th Century:-The evidence of the 1732 Enclosure Award: Beryl Elliott | The Old Age Pension – one hundred years!: Elaine North | The Tale of the Teapot: Joyce Cummings & Vic Cole | Mr Balfour – a Popular Headmaster: Joyce Cummings | Cheltenham Floods July 2007: Mary Nelson | ‘Every Measure that may gratify the public’:-Humphrey Ruff’s contribution to Cheltenham: Carolyn Greet | Taxes – 1605: Jill Barlow | Thomas Snow and the Western Schism: Alan Munden | A medieval Cheltenham cleric: Michael J Greet | An extraordinary actress: Lillah McCarthy: Roger Beacham | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham area accessions, 2008: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 24 (2008)
Edward T Wilson (1832 – 1918) – co-founder of Cheltenham Photographic Society : David Elder | Beetham’s the chemists (1846 – 1960s): Sue Rowbotham | Growing up in Wellington Street: Amina Chatwin | Cheltenham ‘s early market buildings: Carolyn Greet | The Owe 40 Club: National Lawn Tennis and Squash in Leckhampton: Elizabeth Millman & Pauline Bradstock | The Macready mystery: Sue Rowbotham | The de Cheltenham Family in 14th century Gloucestershire: Michael Greet | Where is your nearest Post Office?: Mick Kippin | F W Robertson (1816 – 53): ‘Philosopher, Poet, Priest and Prophet’: Alan Munden | Frederick Whishaw, Boris the Bear Hunter and the Moorend Grotto: Eric Miller | ‘The Grand Exhibition of Plants of All Nations’ – 1853: Geoff North & Elaine Heasman | Lifting the lid on a royal scandal: Terry Moore-Scott | We knew Percy Braisby: Judy Smith | The Honorary Freemen of the Borough of Cheltenham: Peter Smith | Cheltenham commemorative guineas and half guineas of George III: Martin Warburton | The new hall in Bennington Street – Laying the memorial stone (from the Cheltenham Free Press: 16 September 1882): Vic Cole | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham area accessions, 2007: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 23 (2007)
Aylwin Sampson – artist and writer: Sally Self | Peter and Judy Smith – young at heart: Sue Robotham | Under water: flooding in Cheltenham 1731-1985: Mick Kippin | The early history of cinema in Cheltenham Part 1 – 1896-1899 :John Elliott | ‘Audacious and inexplicable robbery’ – February 1824: Mike Grindley | Eminent Cheltonians commemorated at Leckhampton: Eric Miller | An unusual view of Cheltenham: Jill Waller | A police court sketch – 1885: Vic Cole | Jane and Cassandra Austen in Cheltenham 1816: Carolyn Greet | Cheltenham ‘s Parks and Gardens ‘ – ‘in the news’ 1887 and 2007: Elaine Heasman | The Coliseum: Part 2: Roger Beacham | ‘This diabolical act’ – the presentation of a dead baby to Francis Close: Alan Munden | Percy Braisby and the pottery figures: Leslie Burgess | Cheltenham ‘s other hospitals 1918 – 48: Heather Atkinson | Victorian Tivoli Road: Jill Barlow | The case of Jean Jacques Le Roi and Rachel Wolff: Mike Grindley | Mayors of Cheltenham Borough Council 1876 – 2007 :Peter Smith | Some milliners and dressmakers in Cheltenham 1851: Anthea Jones | Glimpses of Cheltenham in 1806: Russell Self | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | Gloucestershire Archives: Cheltenham area accessions, 2006: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 22 (2006)
A scandal in Cheltenham: Carolyn Greet | The Coliseum: Roger Beacham | The Launch of the Cheltenham Lifeboat as reported in the Illustrated London News: Geoff North & Elaine Heasman | Mawe and Tatlow’s Museum: Sue Rowbotham | ‘He went about doing good’: the life of Dr Edward T Wilson (1832-1918): David Elder | Albion House – the first 200 years: Tom Maslin | Robert Passemer, a pilgrim from Prestbury?: Michael Greet | The St Marks Housing Estate – an introduction to Cheltenham’s first National Housing Scheme: Harvey Faulkner-Aston | Barnby, Bendall – a mystery solved: Eric Miller | Tivoli Road – an early history: Eric Woodhead | 1116 Bandsman William Tarling: Mick Kippin | Titanic Disaster – Cheltenham Man Lost (from theGloucestershire Echo: 22 April 1912) | Cheltenham’s Blue Coat School: David Young | Schoolboy memories of wartime Cheltenham: Leslie Burgess | The Cotswold Magical Society and the missing Maskelyne plaque: Sue Rowbotham | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: Cheltenham area accessions, 2005: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 21 (2005)
A glimpse into our colonial past?: Sue Rowbotham | ‘A pleasing but Dangerous Delusion’ – Cheltenham Through Quaker Eyes: Carolyn Greet | Jack Reginald Goldby: An International Volunteer: Mick Kippen | The Portland Square and Albert Place District :-Land, Houses and Early occupants: Mike Grindley | A Gist of William Milton’s Will, 1424: Michael Greet
The Palmers of Cheltenham: Margaret Stocker | Letters from Cheltenham 1803 and 1805: Terry Moore-Scott | The White House, Arle: Phyllis White | The Religious Census of Cheltenham in 1851: Alan Munden | The Mitfords of Tivoli Road: Eric Woodhead | ‘Blood and Fire’: The Salvation Army in Cheltenham: Leslie Burgess | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: Cheltenham area accessions, 2004: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 20 (2004)
In praise of our logo: Elaine Heasman | Index of CLHS Journal articles 1983-2004: Elaine Heasman | A school in Cheltenham in 1417: Michael Greet | Cheltenham’s Theatre Royal (1782-1839):- Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum’s playbill collection: Terry Moore-Scott | Drums, cudgels and pugilism: early entertainment: Jill Waller & Vic Cole | Cheltenham Manor Court Rolls 1527-29: Jill Barlow | Some Cheltenham connections with Nelson and Trafalgar: Mike Grindley | Notes on Cheltenham’s prisons: Michael Greet | Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-1983): One of Cheltenham’s most famous sons: Derek Rowles | Grand Flower Show and Military Fete in Cheltenham: Mick Kippin | Former Axiom Building 57-59 Winchcombe Street: Klara Sudbury | The theatres that never were: Roger Beacham | Advertisments for Cheltenham Ale – 1927: Sue Rowbotham | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: Cheltenham area accessions, 2003: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 19 (2003)
Cheltenham Local History Society 1982 – 2002: Elaine Heasman | Montpellier Walk: its initial development, chronology and & early occupants: Mike Grindley | 20th Century celebrations: Sue Rowbotham | The Blue Man & other marvels:- Buffalo Bill’s visit to Cheltenham, 1903: James Hodsdon | The Cheltenham Improvement Act 1852: Elaine Heasman | Cheltenham’s Chinese pagodas: Mick Kippen | Repertory in North Street: Roger Beacham | This Convenient Edifice’: The Temporary Church in Cheltenham: Alan Munden | Barnby Bendall and Co Ltd, furniture removals & storage 1839-1976: Eric Miller | Dame Sidney Browne (1850-1941): the modern Florence Nightingale: Derek Rowles | Mr Entwisle and the elusive Post Office: Carolyn Greet | Review: Memoirs of a Social Atom by W E Adams: Sue Rowbotham | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: Cheltenham area accessions, 2002: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 18 (2002)
The Cheltenham Town Survey of 1855-57: Elaine Heasman | Maskelyne and Cooke: Cheltenham’s men of mystery: Sue Rowbotham | One out, all out: Resignations from the Cheltenham Fire Brigade: Mick Kippen | No Hawlf Measures: Gifts of land in the 12th and 13th Centuries: Michael Greet | Cheltenham apprentices in Gloucester, 1595 -1700: Jill Barlow | Beating the Bounds: the 1823 Perambulation of Cheltenham: Terry Moore-Scott | Cheltenham as it might have been: The Grammar School 1886: Eric Miller | Cheltenham in 1830: Three unpublished letters from William Barton of Southwark: Steven Blake | Frederick Munroe (1791-1879): Soldier and Cheltenham Commissioner: Derek Rowles | The Caffieri Family from France: their life in Cheltenham: Mike Grindley | Christina Rossetti’s Cheltenham connection: Jill Waller
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Journal 17 (2001)
Cheltenham High Street 1800-20: Carolyn S Greet | William Jay, regency architect – a career in reverse: Susan Hamilton | Cheltenham as it might have been: The Kursaal: Eric Miller | ‘The Munificent friend of Israel’ – Jane Cook of Cheltenham (1775-1851): Alan Munden | Aspects of Medieval Cheltenham: Michael Greet | Cheltenham in 1823: a letter by Captain Thomas Medwin: Oliver Bradbury | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: Cheltenham area accessions, 2000: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 16 (2000)
The Historian Gwen Hart : Peter Smith | Radicalism in Cheltenham: The patronage offered by Ebworth Park: Jackie E M Latham | Barbadian Legacy:- The unacknowledged earlier life of William Hinds Prescod: Glenn O Phillips | The Cheltenham Literary & Philosophical Institution 1833-60. Part 2: Jean Lacock | A History of ‘The Priory’, Cheltenham: Oliver Bradbury | Mrs Josephine Butler:-domestic glimpses of a 19th century feminist: Beverley Grey | The Cheltenham Rifles 1859-1908: Mick Kippin | Tatchley Villas, Prestbury: Roger Beacham | The Deer Park at Prestbury: traces in the landscape: Beryl Elliott | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: Cheltenham area accessions received in 1999: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 15 (1999)
Nineteenth-Century Motoring in Cheltenham: Derek Copson | The Cheltenham Literary & Philosophical Institution, 1833-60: Jean Lacock | The Follies of Cheltenham Part 2: Oliver Bradbury | The Grovefield Estate and its Houses: Phyllis White | A 1787 Map of Cheltenham: James Hodsdon | The Winchcombe Fire-Engine: Mick Kippin | Alstone Lawn: a noble residence: Jill Waller | A Possible Portway to Cheltenham: Terry Moore-Scott | A Wife for Sale: Michael Greet | Recent Pulications: Steven Blake | GRO: 1998 accessions for the Cheltenham area: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 14 (1998)
Clara Winterbotham 1880-1967: ‘Cheltenham’s First Lady’: Julie Courtenay | The follies of Cheltenham: Oliver Bradbury | A Cheltenham century 1839-1939: Barbara King | Special Illustrated Section | Edward Bedford of Prestbury: A vicar in difficult times: Beryl Elliott | Marle Hill Court remembered: Barbara Weeks | Cheltenham and the Indian connection: Eva Bailey | Hunting the Cotswold Stag: Peter Southerton | Behind the Eight Bells: A glimpse of Old Cheltenham: Terry Moore-Scott | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: 1997 accessions for the Cheltenham area: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 13 (1997)
Cheltenham’s bandstands: Mick Kippin | The Old Swan and Betty Humphrys: Phyllis White | A visitor to Cheltenham in 1832: the diary of Sarah Sargant: Steven Blake | Cheltenham and the lifeboats: Betty Greene | Who built Rosehill?: Oliver Bradbury | The Church and its Chapels in medieval Cheltenham: a summary: Michael Greet | Cheltenham’s mineral wells: a checklist: Steven Blake & Oliver Bradbury | A Shurdington tomb: Daphne Doughton | Before the Bench in 1844: Eric Armitage | Montpellier multiplied: a ‘local’ name in its wider context: James Hodsdon | Recent books and articles on the history of Cheltenham: Steven Blake | GRO: 1996 accessions for the Cheltenham area: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 12 (1995-6)
Francis Close’s battle with Tractarianism and Ritualism: Nigel Scotland | Thomas Marshall’s legacy:- The Cheltenham building survey certificates, 1824-48: James Hodsdon | Paganini comes to town: Leslie Burgess | Cheltenham Police Court reports, 1875: Jill Barlow | The Winter Garden Theatre: Roger Beacham | John Goding, Cheltenham Historian: Peter Smith | Caught out: Eric Woodhead | GRO accessions 1995 relating to the Cheltenham area: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 11 (1994-5)
A political problem: local Liberal candidates at the 1910 General Election: John Howe | From the Cheltenham Examiner | ‘An ornament to the town’: Jessop’s Gardens: Carolyn Greet | A Childhood in Cheltenham: Amina Chatwin | Cheltenham’s High Street at the time of Rowe’s 1845 Guide: Mark Thomas | Another retrospection: James Hodsdon | ‘Disgraceful practical joking’: John Elliott | Recent books and articles on the Cheltenham area: Steven Blake | Cheltenham’s earliest postcards: Steven Blake | GRO accessions 1994 relating to the Cheltenham area: Julie Courtenay | Index to issues 1 – 10: Beryl Elliott
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Journal 10 (1993-4)
Political controversies and the election of 1847: Adrian Courtenay | Cheltenham Streets That Never Were: James Hodsdon | ‘Cannon to the right of them…’: Peter Smith | House and hotel: The Belle Vue: Linda Warwick | Cheltenham’s Great Gas Bill: Keith Cooper | The Catholic Mission at Cheltenham, 1799-1809: Richard Barton | Cheltenham toll roads in the 19th century: Brian Kearney | Up before the Bench: Eric Armitage | GRO accessions 1993 relating to the Cheltenham area: Julie Courtenay | Recent books and articles on the history of the Cheltenham area: Steven Blake
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Journal 9 (1992-3)
Charles Sturt: Australian Explorer and resident of Cheltenham: Jane Sale | Public hire chairs in Cheltenham: Geoffrey Wilson | The early years of the Cheltenham General Dispensary: Daphne Doughton | The Spa Bands of Cheltenham, 1780-1875: Mick Kippin | The Cox family:- 75 years in Cheltenham: James Toomey | The Manor mystery:- The rise and decline of the house of the Bishops of Hereford at Prestbury: Beryl Elliott | From the Cheltenham Examiner | Intellectual Amusement & Instruction:- The 1841 Exhibition of Works of Art and Science at the CheltenhamLiterary and Philosophical Institution: Jean Lacock | College and County:- Cheltenham Training College and its proposed rival, 1903-7: Charles More | GRO accessions 1991-92 relating to the Cheltenham area: Julie Courtenay
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Journal 8 (1990-1)
Prestbury ratepayers of 1698: Beryl Elliott | Pittville Nursery Garden and the Ware Mortgage: A cautionary tale: A J Campbell | The rise and fall of Edward Rupert Humphreys: A mid-Victorian scandal: Barbara King | Glimpses of Cheltenham through the pages of a Victorian schoolmaster’s diary: Julie Courtenay | Indexing the Cheltenham Examiner: Barbara King &Peter Smith | GRO accessions relating to the Cheltenham area, 1990: Julie Courtenay | Recent books and articles on the history of the Cheltenham area: Steven Blake
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Journal 7 (1989)
The fields and field names of the Hundred of Cheltenham Part 2: The Parish of Swindon: Barbara Rawes | The unfortunate Mr Forbes:- The rise and fall of a Cheltenham architect: Steven Blake | A Passage in Time:- The story of Swindon Passage and its back-to-back houses: Maggie Blake | Victorian vandals in the valley:-Thomas Butt and the Golden Valley Chapel, 1876: Phyllis White | GRO accessions relating to the Cheltenham area, 1989: Julie Courtenay| Recent books and articles on the history of the Cheltenham area: Steven Blake
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Journal 6 (1988)
The fields and field names of the Hundred of Cheltenham Part 1: The Parish of Cheltenham: Barbara Rawes | Farm labourers in the Cheltenham area:- Their conditions of service in the 18th century: Jane Sale | The Hyde Spaw: an early rival to Cheltenham: Beryl Elliott | Philip Strickland and the Fleece Riot of 1840: Adrian Courtenay | King’s Road Cheltenham: contributions to a history: James Hodsdon
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Journal 5 (1987)
Fire, decay and persecution:- Charitable briefs in Prestbury Churchwardens’ Accounts, 1672-1740: Beryl Elliott | Cheltenham’s Assembly Rooms, 1734-1900: Roger Beacham | ‘Hewletts’ and the Agg family: Jane Sale |
Printed maps of the environs of Cheltenham in the first half of the 19th century: John V Garrett | The Napoleon Fountain: Steven Blake | The condition of milliners and dressmakers in Cheltenham, 1865: June Hamblett | The new All Saints’ Organ, June 1887: Lowinger Maddison
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Journal 4 (1986)
The lands of the Withington Poor Charity: Barbara Rawes | Squire Delabere and the inclosure of Prestbury: Beryl Elliott | The Pipe Organ in Cheltenham: Roy Williamson | Arle House: home of the Welch family: Phyllis White | Gunmaking in Cheltenham since 1815: an outline chronology: Chris Howell | Retailing at Montpellier, 1831-71: Ian McLean | Parachuting in Cheltenham, 1837-38: Barbara Sobey | Liszt in Cheltenham, 1840: Lowinger Maddison | The proposed enlargement of Cheltenham Parish Church, 1841: Alan Munden | Beer, Breakfast and Bribery:- Electoral corruption in Cheltenham during the elections of 1847 and 1848: Adrian Courtenay | A short history of Thirlestaine Hall: Steven Blake
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Journal 3 (1985)
Prestbury Park Farm: Beryl Elliott | King George III at Cheltenham in 1788: Graeme Powell | Cavendish House: an outline history: June Hamblett | Urch & Seabright of Fairview, cabinet makers and builders, 1826-85: Steven Blake | Cheltenham’s first photographers, 1841-56: Simon Fletcher | ‘The White Slaves of England’:-the early closing movement in Cheltenham in 1844: John Roles | Parish magazines as a source of local history: Eric Miller
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Journal 2 (1984)
The Hundred of Cheltenham and its boundaries: Barbara Rawes | William Barrett his book: Mary Paget | Alleged witchcraft in Cheltenham circa 1773: Michael Greet | A Scottish visitor to Cheltenham: George Breeze | The building of the Montpellier shops: an outline chronology: Steven Blake | A radical interlude: Cheltenham in the “Hungry ’40s”: Robert Homan | The Mechanics’ Institute and radical politics in Cheltenham 1834-40: Owen Ashton
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Journal 1 (1983)
Three Properties of Cirencester Abbey in the Cheltenham Area: Barbara Rawes | Population Figures for the Cheltenham Area 1548-1801: Michael Greet | Henry Merrett’s Plan of Cheltenham, 1834: Steven Blake | The Cheltenham Cottage Company: Robert Homan | The Clarence Street Palazzo: Roger Beacham | Gravestones Rediscovered: Robert Homan
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