A report on the Civic Society trip to Oxfordshire on Wednesday 12th June 2013. Words by Sue Houseago. There were grey skies above, as members of the Stroud Civic Society gathered with rain coats, picnics, umbrellas, fleeces, gilets and scarves … Continue reading
‘Blitzed! War Artists’ in Bath’ on 25th April 2014, marked both the final day of the Civic Society’s winter talks and the anniversary of the blitzing of Bath in 1942! Perhaps it was appropriate that the last of the Civic Society’s … Continue reading
Thursday 21st March may well have been a miserable evening of rain and recession, but queues of anxious people formed in Stroud Old Town Hall with money ready to renew or take out new membership of the Civic Society and … Continue reading
Our third winter talk ‘Wooden Churches in Russia’ by Richard Davies began promptly on Thursday 21st February at 7.30 in Stroud’s Old Town Hall. Plunged rapidly into darkness the large audience, saw silhouetted against blue skies and snowy foregrounds, a series … Continue reading
Report on Stroud Civic Society talk Town Planning as if People Really Mattered by Hugh Barton on January 17th 2013. Report written by Sue Houseago. While snow fell in soft wet swirls outside we set out chairs in the Old Town Hall with … Continue reading