Stroud Civic Society

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[…]

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;[…]