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Bulletin No 33 (2024)

Editor's Foreword John Dixon Chairman's Foreword Sam Eedle Grist to the Mill Joanne Raywood Quakers: Keeping on their Hats in Tewkesbury Derek Benson Who Was John Moore? John Dixon Tewkesbury's Unique Resident John Dixon The Mysterious Mrs. Wardle Sam Eedle Obituary - Janet & David Devereux Sam Eedle Obituary - Jane Blackledge John Dixon

Bulletin No 32 (2023)

President's (and Editor) Foreword John Dixon Foreword - Chairman Sam Eedle Obituary - Christine Donald John Dixon Obituary - Norah, Cliff & Margaret Day John Dixon Two Views of the Severn Ham Joanne Raywood 'The Notorious Mrs. Wardle' Sam Eedle John Rogers (1808-1909) Sarah Smith Women's Suffrage Activism in Cheltenham Derek Benson The Life of Corporal Charles Davis DCM & MID Sam Eedle Unique Residents of 20th Century Tewkesbury? John Dixon

Bulletin No 31 (2022)

President's Foreword John Dixon Anne of Cleeve Ray Coggin Margaret Hickes - A Female Philanthropist of the Reformation Christine Warwick The School Mistress and the Cross Sam Eedle (J) (W) Recreating the Historical High Street - in Animation! Paul Amphlett Photos, Colorizing: Different Colours, Different Shades Marie, James and Karl Freeman Impact of the Railways on an Ashchurch Agricultural Family Mike Gilmour A Sad Grave in the Cemetary John Dixon & Martin Tomlins

Bulletin No 30 (2021)

Chairman's Foreword Sam Eedle Editor's Foreword John Dixon 30 Years Young! John Dixon Tewkesbury Tax Riot of 1805 Derek Benson (JS) Mayor James Blount Lewis and the Missing Portrait (part II) Joanne Raywood (W) A History 'Set in Iron'? John Dixon Blighty Tickets to Mitton, 1917 Sam Eedle Nicholas Ridley: Still 'One of Us'? (part II) Kevin Willis

Bulletin No 29 (2020)

President’s Foreword John Dixon Editor's Foreword James Freeman Janet Patricia Benson (1955-2019) John Dixon James Blount Lewis, a Missing Portrait Joanne Raywood The Battle of Tewkesbury in a European Context Steve Goodchild Nicholas Ridley - "One of Us"? Kevin Willis Holm Castle: A history of "Day of the Lords". April Irwin Mustard: Great Balls of Fire Karl Freeman (JS) (W) The Rise and Fall of Tewkesbury High School Clementine Oliver Croome Park: "Pic Nic Extraordinary", 1854 Wendy Snarey From Nazi Memorabilia to Tewkesbury Collectibles Tony Bayliss & James Freeman

Bulletin No 28 (2019)

President’s Foreword John Dixon Editor's Foreword Jim Freeman Tewkesbury's Redoubtable Victorian Ironmonger John King (W) "Art For Life's Sake" Liz O'Sullivan Finally Settling In Tewkesbury - 70 Years Ago! Gordon Baker Memories of Beecham Marine and its Boats Stephen Peters Tewkesbury Abbey and the Mystery Surrounding the Remains of George, Duke of Clarence April Irwin A Change of Scene ... Hoping for Something More Jim Freeman Thank You, Tewkesbury Schools! Clifford Day

Bulletin No 27 (2018)

President’s Foreword John Dixon Obituary: Bill Rennison John Dixon Charles Alexander Riley - A Gratuitous Casualty of Modern Warfare? Roger Riley Howells to Canada and Beyond! (Part 2) Barbara Jones & John Dixon An Australian Artist in Tewkesbury: Lt. Maurice H.J. Otto and his sketch of Tewkesbury Abbey Stan Woods The 1714 Coronation Riot in Tewkesbury Derek Benson (JS) (W) An Ideal for Living Jim Freeman & Derek Freeman The Public Clocks of Tewkesbury or A Brief History of (Tewkesbury) Time David Bagley

Bulletin No 26 (2017)

Obituaries: C Burd, A Pound, H Workman John Dixon Changing Rooms & Fashions Dr. Karen Banks A W Peachey: Tewkesbury Poet Mike Everley Osborne House Archive: Hosiery Coy Wendy Snarey ‘Red Cross’ on Home Front in WW I John Dixon From Howell’s to Hollams J Dixon & B Jones (W) Gordon Baker’s 2nd Evacuation, 1940-1942 John Dixon Memories of an Evacuee ‘s Childhood in Tewkesbury Anita Redman ‘Tying the Knot’ - 1940s Style J Freeman & A Irwin

Bulletin No 25 (2016)

David Maxfield Willavoys, 1938-2015 John Dixon The Hunt for John Barston Dr. Karen Banks Giles Geast Charity Account Book Dan Beaver From Tewkesbury to Tasmania Judy Dwyer (W) ‘Sins of the Father’? Mike Everley My Tewkesbury Connections Jean Green Unlocking the Secrets Jim Freeman William Henderson Struthers Tony Struthers Analysis of Deeds in Church Street Wendy Snarey My Father - Warrior’s Return Mike Kean-Price Northway from 1947 - I Derek Round Tewkesbury Museum: Its Early History Steve Goodchild Audrey Pound, Cliff Burd, Harry Workman In Memoriam Historians & Controversy John Dixon

Bulletin No 24 (2015)

Miss Norah Day, 1919-2014 John Dixon Elizabethan Ships & Merchants Peter R. Raggatt (JS) B Rowlands - ‘A Pigeon from Calais’ THS Review ‘Notorious Highwayman Tewkesbury’! Judy Dwyer The Ownership of Goods and Cultures of Consumption, 1660-1760 Dr. Karen Banks (W) George Aunger: Sailor of Trafalgar John Lewis Walter Robert Young Mike Everley William Freeman, Brother of George David Aldred They Left a Lasting Impression Rosemary Wherrett (B) Women’s Suffrage in Tewkesbury Derek Benson (JS) I.. Hollingsbee - ‘Inside the Wire’ THS Review American Architect in Tewkesbury J. C. Kell F. Ebsworth - ‘Puckrup’s Progress THS Review Gathering Clues from Extraordinary Objects Jim Freeman

Bulletin No 23 (2014)

"Living off the Fat of the Land"? Wealth and Status amongst Yeomen and Husbandmen Karen Banks Ripples from the French Revolution in Tewkesbury Derek Benson (JS) (W) George Freeman: Extraordinary Entrepreneur David Aldred Goodbye, Mr. Harrison Sam Eedle (JS) Summary of ‘Tudor House’ Documents Wendy Snarey Analysis of Midwife’s Registers of Mrs. Key Dr. Andrew Crowther Old Tewkesbury Cliff Burd ‘Up and Doing’ - Story of the Vicker Family; 1923-1955 Beverly Mayle "Hooked into Train -spotting" Clifford T. Day

Bulletin No 22 (2013)

Roman Tewkesbury Benedict Sayers Did the Purchase of Tewkesbury Abbey Reflect the Continuation of Traditional Catholic Belief? Tom Wilkinson (JS) (W) "Not What They Want But What Is Good For Them" Karen Banks From Stratford to Tewkesbury John Harris William Holland: Mariner Mike Everley A Tewkesburian at Trafalgar - a Correspondence Sam Eedle The Tewkesbury Bread Riot of 1795 Derek Benson (JS) Our Perplexing Treasure Barton St Mission Hall John Dixon, Wendy Snarey & Andrew Coggin Lizzie’s Absolute Loyalty Jim Freeman SS Tewkesbury Kevin Willis Pawlo Kostiuk’s Story Alan Snarey Tewkesbury Servicemen John Dixon & Sam Eedle

Bulletin No 21 (2012)

‘End of the Line’? Mike Everley ‘A Stitch in Time’: Tewkesbury’s 17th and 18th Century Stocking Manufacturers Karen Banks (JS) From City to Country Town Gordon H. Baker T’bury Home Guard (Part 2: 1941-44) Mick Wilks (W) Memories of a German Prisoner of War at Tewkesbury Joachim Schulze The Elections of John Martin Derek Benson Family Power Games & the Quest for Margot’s Identity Jim Freeman "Once Errand Boy in Local Store - Now MP" John Dixon My Tewkesbury Connection Serena Mapletoft "It was the Year of our Lord 1016..." Ian Coggin

Bulletin No 20 (2011)

William Morris Moore (1813-1841) Derek Benson (JS) Tragedy - Thomas Holland’s Daughter Mike Everley (JS) Riverside Walk Scheme 1949-55 John Dixon A History of THS Bulletins Colour Photographs Ladies of Influence: Misses Mines Janet Devereux Hunting The Fox in Tewkesbury Wendy Snarey Neville Halsey’s Post-War Preoccupations Jim Freeman (W) Gentility in 17th Century Karen Banks (JS) Home Guard (Part 1: 1940-1941) Mick Wilks (W)

Bulletin No 19 (2010)

‘Sky’ Turner - His Later Years Sam Eedle The Unfought Battle of Tewkesbury Mick Wilks (JS) The Evacuee - Becoming a Tewkesburian - via Cheltenham Gordon H. Baker 46 High Street - The Obliteration of the Architectural Memory of the Moore Family John Dixon Chartism in Tewkesbury and District Derek Benson (JS) (W) Thomas Holland Snr. - Evidence to Royal Commission Mike Everley A Village Baker’s Wife Janet Devereux Halsey’s Rarities Jim Freeman Gage of the Gates J. Dixon, Webley & Cockburn Cecil James Turner - Scoutmaster, 1910-1930 J.W. Rennison

Bulletin No 18 (2009)

Cecil Sharp - Folk Music Richard Sermon Metropolitan Culture 18thC Tewkesbury Karen Banks ‘Gasman came to call’ - Book Review John Dixon Railways at Tewk. & Ashchurch Janet Devereux The Last Passenger Rail Service , 1961 Sam Eedle (JS) (W) Mrs. Craik - Book Review John Dixon Forsaking Generations of Alley Life Jim Freeman Thomas Walker, - Book Review John Dixon Livestock Markets in Tewkesbury John Dixon Baptist Church in Tewkesbury Jonathan Smalley Kezia: no other woman . as beautiful? John Dixon Some Tewkesbury Snippets

Bulletin No 17 (2008)

Halsey’s Remnants Jim Freeman Thomas Holland (1826-1907) Mike Everle Tewkesbury: What’s in a Name? Richard Sermon The Easthope Monument at Abbey Richard Morris, et al William Harrison Gray John Dixon (JS) Floods and Freeze-Up Derek Round The Christadelphians: A History Mike Page George Dyson (1850-1932) Adrienne Roche (W)

Bulletin No 16 (2007)

Halsey’s End Jim Freeman Cleal Family Don Freeman Capt. W.E. Price - A Corrupt M.P.? John Dixon The Great Freeze of 1890-91 D. & C. Round Diamond Jubilee, 1897 Janet Devereux (W) Tewkesbury’s Med. Synagogue R Sermon & B Watson Mitton Chapel And Its Environs R Sermon & N Spry Obituary of Almer Page David Page

Bulletin No 15 (2006)

Tewkesbury during World War I Clementine De Leender Bill Camp (Obituary) John Dixon The Continuing Mystery of Wm Sandilands Sam Eedle More Tewkesburians at Trafalgar Sam Eedle Tewkesbury’s Obsession with Nelson? John Dixon (W) Harriet McIlquham Jenny Slack Memoirs of a Teenage Belgian Refugee in Tewkesbury during World War I Clementine De Leender Coombe Hill Canal Nigel Druce Horses Rescued from the Extraordinary Flood of 1924 Derek Round Tewkesbury Market House David Willavoys Life at 89 Church Street Janet Devereux Tewkesbury’s Stockingers Cliff Burd The Jew of Tewkesbury Richard Sermon (J) Book Review: Battle of Tewkesbury John Dixon & Sam Eedle

Bulletin No 14 (2005)

Seizing the Photo Opportunity Jim Freeman A Tewkesburian at Trafalgar? Sam Eedle (J) Tewkesbury Town Burials Mike English The Tewkesbury Races Derek Benson (JS) Tewkesbury’s Own D-Day Hero John Dixon Tewkesbury’s Stockingers, Part I Cliff Burd Joseph Higginson 1790-1848 Jennifer Sherwood Cotswold Place Geoff Everitt Tewkesbury in the Boer War David Willavoys Pioneer in Transport D. & C. Round (W) Tewkesbury Schooldays Norah Day Civilian Community, 1917 Janet Devereux

Bulletin No 13 (2004)

Lucile Bell John Dixon & D. J. Cole "Irresponsible & Self Seeking Faddists" Martin Holt (B) A Remarkable Centenarian - John Rogers David Willavoys Humphrey Brown, M.P John Dixon (C) The Abbey Boys in the Terriers Sam Eedle (W) Samuel Hitch, M.D Ian Hollingsbee A Tailor of Tewkesbury Marion Willavoys Bagging a ‘Blighty’ Jim Freeman Early Days at Tewkesbury Sir Raymond Priestley Turning Negative to Positive Chris Kirby Tewkesbury’s Flour Mills Anthea Jones (JS) Three Gloucestershire Friends Janet Devereux

Bulletin No 12 (2003)

Harry Workman’s Memoirs Tewkesbury Abbey : The Feast of the Consecration, October 1121 Bill Camp Bryan Linnell 1932-2002 Cliff Burd A Tewkesbury Alphabet Norah Day Consecration, October 1121 Bill Camp Raymond Priestley Remembered Chris Kirby "Our ‘Tommies’ .Always Cheerful" Janet Devereux (JS) First - & Forgotten - Railway Station John Dixon (JS) (W) Halsey’s Lost War Records Jim Freeman Daisy’s Diaries Kathleen Hall Samuel Thomas Osborne, the Channel Hero Catherine & Derek Round The Lost Alleys and Courts of Tewkesbury - Part 2 Cliff Burd ‘A Fine English Gentleman’ - The Disappearance of Heneage Bloxham Sam Eedle

Bulletin No 11 (2002)

The Multiple Faces of Dudley Digges Cameron Talbot (ed. Bill Rennison) Parkfield School at Twyning Manor during World War II Janet Devereux Halsey’s Great War Jim Freeman "By the Grace of God, King" Bill Rennison ‘Around Tewkesbury’ (Book-signing) Cliff Burd Unwillingly to Australia David Willavoys (C) (W) Tewkesbury Lady of Distinction : Beatrice Edgell (1871-1948) Dr. Elizabeth Valentine Lloyd George’s Domesday Book Wendy Snarey (B) I Love a Mystery Norah Day ...Some Mysteries Solved John Dixon From the Town Hall to the Boar’s Head Sam Eedle The Lost Alleys & Courts of Tewkesbury Cliff Burd What’s in a Name? Oldbury Street / High Street Bill Rennison The Amazingly Ubiquitous Alfred Baker John Dixon Angels in the Apse David Willavoys

Bulletin No 10 (2001)

The History of Tewkesbury Historical Society Bill Rennison Lower Lode Ferry Cliff Burd Goodbye to ‘Ibid’ and all that! Editors The Good Man Serving his Generation - Thomas Caddick, 1763-1847 Janet Devereux The Census & Elections of 1831-1832 John Dixon ‘Strangers in our Midst’ - Walton House and the Cartlands John Dixon (W) The Continuing Story of James Bennett Cliff Burd The Human Inch-Tape Norah Day A Man about Town! Roxy Base The Great Flood of 1947 Catherine Round When Hollywood - possibly - collides with Tewkesbury (Victoria Woodhull-Martin) John Dixon Antarctic Survivor - Tewkesbury’s Polar Hero Sue Edlin Tewkesbury & the Abolition of the Slave Trade Coralie Merchant (WS) The Tewkesbury Token Issuers (1649-72) Bill Camp ‘A Thousand Years of the English Parish’ by Anthea Jones (Review) John Dixon What Really did Happen at the Battle of Tewkesbury? Adrian Fray John Moore’s ‘Black Sal’ John Dixon

Bulletin No 9 (2000)

Tewkesbury House of Industry c.1832-1850) Janet Devereux (W) The Harmonious History of Tewkesbury and District Choral Society Brenda Perkins The Bloxham Family Kathleen Hall Tewkesbury’s Alleys : Further Notes Bryan Linnell The 1924 Floods and Halsey’s Photographic Legacy Jim Freeman with Derek Round The Railway comes to Tewkesbury 1830-1845 Nigel Druce No.66 Church Street, Tewkesbury Cliff Burd The Medieval Lady Chapel of Tewkesbury Abbey Bill Camp The Lords of Tewkesbury, Part 3 Cynthia Brown The Most Harsh and Unkind Friend (Glimpses into Tewkesbury House of Industry c.1832-1850) Janet Devereux (W) Tewkesbury’s Political Elite of 1785 John Dixon Making Sense of the Tewkesbury Census Wendy Snarey Voluntary Recruitment 1914-1916 Gemma Wall (WS)

Bulletin No 8 (1999)

91 Church Street, the Vaulted Cellar and J.M.W.Turner Bill Camp & Derek Round (W) Justice as done by Victoria Bryan Linnell Tewkesbury’s Fascinating but Controversial Alleys John Dixon More about the Alleys Cliff Burd The Poet, the Ploughman, the Kitchener and the Lady Janet Devereux Tewkesbury Abbey Restorations, Past and Present C.F. Methven The P.R.A. Ladies Kathleen Hall Walton House, Tewkesbury Lucy Hodges Reluctant Travellers : the 1831 Transportees C.F. Wicken Thomas Collins, Part 2 David Willavoys Who was Sybill? What was she? Norah Day No.3 Barton Street Cliff Burd The Lords of Tewkesbury, Part 2 Cynthia Brown Characters in a Town Bryan Linnell What was it Worth? John Dixon

Bulletin No 7 (1998)

Memories of Tewkesbury by a Resident Mrs N.K. Jones The Lords of Tewkesbury, Part 1 Cynthia Brown An Insight into Tewkesbury in 1785 John Dixon Thomas Collins David Willavoys (W) Schooldays Kathleen Hall A Glimpse of Victorian Tewkesbury C.F. Wicken Lighten our Darkness Cliff Burd Fortress Tewkesbury Bryan Linnell The Wheatsheaf Stables G.H. Baker The Abbey Halls C.F. Methven Public Spirit, Public Order, Part 2 : The Yeomanry in Peacetime Janet Devereux Sunday, Tewkesbury Sunday Bryan Linnell On the Parish : Outdoor Relief in the Tewkesbury Union 1836-43 Janet Devereux The Royal Salute David Willavoys Early Hospital Provision Hannah Lord (WS)

Bulletin No 6 (1997)

Robert FitzHamon John Dixon The Draper’s Shop Gladys Coop A Shepherd’s Daughter Margaret Hobson All in the Day’s Work G.H. Baker Ways and Means Cynthia Brown Three War Poems John Moore A Mystery Solved Janet Devereux Twyning Parish Council : the Early Years, Part 2 Peter Dixon The Baptist Sunday School Katie Horner (B) (W) A Life on the Railway Kathleen Hall Oxford Movement in Gloucestershire John Dixon (W) The Country Bobby Cynthia Brown James Bennett, Family Tree & Tewkesbury Printers Cliff Burd A Very Useful Class of Men C.F. Wicken The Cholera Memorial Sean Snarey Public Spirit, Public Order, Part 1 Janet Devereux

Bulletin No 5 (1996)

The Streets and Shop Fronts of Tewkesbury in 1903 Dr. Anthea Jones The Cast Lead Tokens of Evesham Abbey Bill Camp Law and Order in Tewkesbury in the 19th Century Janet Devereux John Moore John Shakles Twyning Parish Council : the Early Years, Part 1 Peter Dixon D-Day Four Years After John Moore A Journey to Scotland with Miss Moore R.E. Woodard Somewhere in England, Part 2 John Dixon National Service at Ashchurch Cliff Burd 77 Barton Street C.F. Wicken (W) 1947 Remembered Kathleen Hall Escape to Freedom Kostek Michaluk Tewkesbury’s M.P.s Dr. Anthea Jones Tewkesbury’s Early Freemen Cameron Talbot From Here and There Norah Day Romancing the Middle Ages Steve Goodchild A Soldier of the Queen C.F. Wicken

Bulletin No 4 (1995)

The Anchor Inn Mary Ackworth River Trade on the Severn 1565-1765 Dr. Malcolm Wanklyn Tewkesbury Cricket Club Cliff Burd Beloved Mother : An Airman Writes Home John Moore Researching a Town David Lloyd A Review of Trade tokens Bill Camp Somewhere in England John Dixon The Tewkesbury Libraries C.F. Wicken Holme Castle and Other Mysteries Norah Day Unlawful Tilling : the Cotswold Tobacco Industry Cameron Talbot Law and Order in 19th Century Tewkesbury Janet Devereux Cholera in 19th Century Tewkesbury James Turtle What They Left Bill Rennison

Bulletin No 3 (1994)

Warren James, Forest Miner and Rioter Kenneth Kelsey The Tudor House Hotel Mary Ackworth Cobbett John Moore A Fresh Look at the Battle of Tewkesbury Norah Day Ripple Jabies Allies Ordinances of Tewkesbury Borough Council in 1575 Anthea Jones Genealogical Notes Bryan Linnell The Tewkesbury Barons, Part 2 Cameron Talbot Letter to the Editor Bob Woodard Law and Order in the North Gloucestershire Area, 1817-50 Janet Devereux Tewkesbury in the Second World War John Dixon The Winter of 1962-63 G.H. Baker Some Glimpses of Tewkesbury in 1540 Anthea Jones A Singular Character C.F. Wicken The Chartists in Staunton Karen Walker et al. Tewkesbury Petty Sessions, 1850-75 Bryan Linnell ‘The Cotswolds’ by Anthea Jones THS Review

Bulletin No 2 (1993)

Leland and the Site of the Battle of Tewkesbury Anthea Jones Jenner - Doctor, Poet, Potterer John Moore Tewkesbury Textile Industry Cameron Lawrence (WS) Railway Workers on the Tewkesbury Branch Line in the late 19th Century John Dixon Mrs Craik Rose Hogan Tewkesbury and the English Civil War Peter E. Bloomfield Nelson Street and Nail Alley Bob Woodard The Cinema in Tewkesbury, Part 2 Bryan Linnell A Botanist Learns some Local History and Woad on the Mythe Dorothy Hilton So Kind a Friend and Benefactor : James Bennett Kathleen Ross The Age of Unrest in North Gloucestershire 1800-1835 Janet Devereux A Short History of the Tewkesbury Post Office Norah Day The Tewkesbury Barons Cameron Talbot Aspects of the 28th (N. Glos.) and 61st Regiments of Foot during the Peninsular War of 1807-14 J.R. Turland A Prodigious Correspondent : Mary Yorke Anthea Jones Archaeological Excavation at Tewkesbury Abbey The Americans at Ashchurch Bill Rennison Reminiscences of an Evacuee during the Second World War Anita Redman The Canalisation of the Severn Colin Wicken

Bulletin No 1 (1992)

The Old Hat Shop Dr. Anthea Jones Work on the Tewkesbury Census R.C. Woodard In the Name of God, Amen: Some Notes on Probate in the 17th Century Cameron Talbot The Cinema in Tewkesbury B.R. Linell Visit to Forthampton Court John Dixon Henry Vincent Yorke, who was the Novelist Henry Green John Dixon Archaeological Excavation at Guiting Power John Dixon Polish Refugees in Tewkesbury Debbie Dean The Day the Nazis came to Gloucestershire John Moore ‘They Used to Live in Tewkesbury’ THS Review Living with Grandparents Anita Redman Memories of a Pupil Teacher Charles Hilton Archaeological Work on land to the South and East of Tewkesbury Dr. Christopher Gerrard

Earlier Bulletins are also still available; however, please be aware that Bulletins published before Bulletin 14 were produced by old technology. Photographs and illustrations in them are of a lower quality than later Bulletins. Also the cost of reproducing these older Bulletins is more than the original sale price. But the Society is happy to keep the archive alive in this way.

We also have a 2nd Edition of Bulletin 1 (1992) - published in 2012 with updates to articles and much better quality illustrations.