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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 of slides of startlingly beautiful wooden churches appear. Our speaker[…]

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 some trepidation. How many, 10 maybe 15? Who would turn[…]

Pictures to follow soon… Saturday 1st December 2012 – our Christmas event… Looking forward eagerly to our day out, I joined our coach and fellow members on a very cold, clear, sunny morning.  The beautiful weather augured well. First stop was the Sandham Memorial Chapel and I headed off to the little[…]

Text and pictures by David Austin with contributions from Tim Mars On Sunday 15th July, society members, led by Tim Mars, made a tour of central Gloucester on the trail of ancient inns and more recent public houses. Our starting point—and probably the high point too—was Yorkshire brewer Samuel Smith’s[…]

Stroud Town Council ask the Civic Society to chose the annual winners of the  Town Design Award.  For 2012 we choose the new canal bridge at Merrywalks in Stroud: Words by Tim Mars, Design pictures courtesy of Gloucestershire CC. Design drawings by Graham Bailey. Click pictures to enlarge them. The new Stroud[…]

On Saturday 18th February, the Stroud Civic Society put up a stall in the Farmers’ Market in Stroud, showing our banner and spreading the word, and also hoping to bring in some new recruits. We are very grateful for the help and the free pitch donated by the organisers of[…]

This is Sue Houseago’s report on the talk given to Stroud Civic Society on January 19th 2012… How to build a beautiful, eco-friendly house that is also a low carbon home and sustainable too. As the Old Town Hall in Stroud filled with heavily be-coated and be-hatted people last Thursday;[…]

This is a report on Alec Hamilton’s presentation to the Society on 17th February 2011. Text by Sue Houseago, pictures (mostly inserted below the text) attributed individually. This week’s talk, as our enthusiastic speaker Alec Hamilton confirmed, was to be a brief history of saving churches. We warmed instantly, in[…]

This is a report on the Society’s visit to Croome Park on September 9th 2010, written by Sue Houseago. (pictures by Juliet Shipman and Guy Williams) Stroud Civic Society Scores a First! During a lively visit to Croome Park, Juliet Shipman ensured that we were the first members of the[…]

This is a Report on the Society’s visit to Birmingham on July 4th 2010. Written by John Hatton BIRMINGHAM is a city of the good, the bad and the downright ugly. So the Civic Society’s day out in Birmingham to inspect the architecture was bound to be more challenging than most[…]