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Baxters Fields, Summer Street, Stroud – Appeal refused! Controversial proposals for housing on this site were put forward in 2013. The Civic Society, along with many others, submitted an objection, quoted below.  There is much more background on the Save Slad Valley website http://www.savesladvalley.org.uk/home.html The applications (there were two, one[…]

Report by Sue Houseago As the keeper of the key, unusually, for the Old Town Hall, it felt quite exciting to unlock the old door ready for the last of the Civic Society’s winter talks. How wonderful that this 16th century building – court, prison, school and finally town hall[…]

Following Hugh Barton’s January talk on the future of Stroud’s Cheapside neighbourhood we now have the full report he and his colleagues prepared for the site. Their report is an independent project prepared pro bono by Cheapside Design Group at the request of Stroud Town Council. The design group consists of Prof[…]

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 all ready to board the coach! Richard our driver, Tim[…]

‘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 winter talks in the Old Town Hall was entitled ‘Blitzed!’[…]

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 coins poured into the bowls for Tim Mars’s illustrated talk:[…]

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[…]