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This is a Report on the talk given by Richard Bossons at our meeting on March 25th 2010. Report by Nick Miles. Richard Bossons treated members and guests to a very well-presented and informative talk on the restoration and conservation work carried out to the stone corona at Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton[…]

May 2009:  The winner of the public poll to find Stroud’s best shop front was announced as more than 60 residents and traders attended Stroud Town Council’s Annual Awards Evening in early May. Walkers Bakery was named as the winner during the evening at St Laurence Church Hall. The shop has undergone[…]

May 2009: Stroud has been nominated in the Great Towns category for an Academy of Urbanism award. The nomination describes the town as: “One of the more authentically gritty and industrial of the Cotswold towns, Stroud has been regenerating itself ‘bottom-up’ in recent years, with some notable success. There is[…]

Stroud’s ‘ugliest building’, Tricorn House, has been empty and derelict for many years. Its prominent position at a major road junction ensures everyone, residents and visitors alike, get a regular view of this monstrosity. © Photo copyright David Gruar and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. There have been occasional campaigns[…]

Some general notes about Stroud – taken from our original website: The Stroud area has a complicated history and geography, set amongst the valleys of the River Frome and its tributaries, which cut deeply into the Cotswold escarpment south of Gloucester. The ‘five valleys’ have many settlements along their steep sides, and[…]

Stroud Civic Society’s new promotional and membership leaflet is now available for download. Photographs in the leaflet are by acclaimed local photographer Henri Kyriacou. Click here for your copy.

For 2009 the Stroud Town Design Awards scheme was used to promote good shop front design, with the Civic Society nominating five entries to go forward into a public poll run by Stroud Town Council. Attractive, well-maintained streets draw visitors and shoppers to a town and are a vital part of its vitality[…]

A news story from ThisIsGloucestershire. Stroud Civic Society’s own vice chairman, Tim Mars, announced, on April 1st, that Stroud’s notoriously ugly police station may be in line for Grade II listed building status. Tim said, “It’s about time Stroud police station got the recognition it deserves. Its etiolated horizontality offers an elegant[…]

Every year the Stroud Civic Society nominates a building for the Stroud Town Council Design Award. In 2008 the nomination went to Stroud College for their new building. Designed by Ellis Williams Architects of Warrington, this is an elegant, understated building with echoes of the white modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s.  The[…]

In 2007 we nominated the Station Master’s House for its exemplary restoration. Built around 1890, this charming Victorian house, survived almost untouched until 2006. It was built by the Great Western Railway as a residence for the station master who had his own private door from the garden through to[…]