Transport
River Trade On The Severn 1565-1765
The Severn is the longest naturally navigable river in England; it was always navigable from Shrewsbury to the estuary, and during the seventeenth century it was made navigable as far as Pool Quay, near Welshpool. The River Avon was made navigable in the 1...
Coombe Hill Canal
Here is a tale of a little local failure, the Coombe Hill Canal. Today, it is hidden away behind the Swan public house on the A38 between Tewkesbury and Gloucester near the junction with the road from Cheltenham. It is two and three quarter miles long ...
Glimpses of the Railways at Tewkesbury and Ashchurch, 1913-45
Laurence Aldridge , father of Mrs. Irene Andrews ,[1] was Station Master at Tewkesbury Railway station from 1911. The family lived at Station House. Like the station itself, the house has now been pulled down, but both are remembered ...
The Last Passenger Rail Service to Tewkesbury, 1961
The very last passenger train pulls into Tewkesbury. Note the signal box beyond on the right. (T.H.S. archives) &...
Elizabethan Ships and Merchants Associated with Tewkesbury
Peter Raggatt was born in 1940 in Tewkesbury, a member of the Raggatt family of artisan engineers. Educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School, he subsequently studied at Oxford University (Chemistry and then research for a D.Phil. in Biochemistry). His ...
The Railway Comes to Tewkesbury 1830-1845
This article will describe that part of the history of the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway which affected Tewkesbury and the surrounding area. It will finish in about 1845 when the railway was absorbed into the Midland Railway , ...
