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A History of the County of Gloucester
… was quite an important centre for money lending in south-west England, though only a small proportion of the … folk from the region. 56 The city centre from the south, c. 1710: features shown include the north, south, and east gates, Trinity tower in Westgate Street, the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… an Act of 1781. 123 The new gaol, in Southgate Street south of St. Kyneburgh's Hospital, 124 was built with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… sources of supply from Staffordshire, Shropshire, and South Wales continued. 25 In 1822 10 coal merchants had yards … Gloucester trow owners, 32 and the trade in copper from South Wales also continued. 33 Leonard Darke (d. 1811) made … became the most regular cargo landed at the basin, and the South Wales copper trade was continued, mainly by Brown & …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at the creeks such as Gatcombe, were goods from South Wales, particularly coal from Neath (Glam.) and Tenby … brought from Coalbrookdale, the Forest of Dean, and South Wales, provided a good livelihood for a number of … of the port of Gloucester: Gatcombe was used for the South Wales trade 51 and from the 1750s Newnham merchants …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… later Parkend Road on the east and to the Sud brook on the south. 16 The disfranchisement of the large number of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… were discovered in 1814 in Rigney Stile grounds on the south side of the city. The owner, Sir James Jelf, sank … extending into several adjoining counties and far into South Wales. 101 Within Gloucestershire it had no effective … for short periods: they were the Gloucester Gazette and South Wales Advertizer of 17824 and the Gloucester Gazette, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… buildings in 1778 new houses were built on the north and south sides of the street there; 8 a piece of waste on the south side of the Foreign bridge, adjoining Dockham ditch, … St. Aldate Street. 10 Upper Westgate Street, c. 1841: the south side ( at the top) includes the Tolsey The failure of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Little Meadow, and the part of Archdeacon's Meadow south of the railway in 1901. Under an award of 1901 the … the city part of Pool Meadow became civil parishes, as did South Hamlet, which was mostly in the county. Anomalies in … 1860s by the corporation reduced the Sud brook nuisance south of the city 98 but conditions in the suburban terraced …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the autumn sheep sales served a wide area in the Midlands, South Wales, and the West Country. 74 The fruit and vegetable … the early 1970s it was attended by buyers from Bristol and South Wales. 77 Organized corn dealing had apparently ceased … to the city. The M5 motorway between the Midlands and south-western England opened east of the city in 1971. 87 The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and as a junction of major routes from the Midlands to south-western England, and from London to South Wales. 8 The first railway to reach the city, the … the bypassing line, which was abandoned in 1851 when the South Wales line opened. 12 That line used the broad gauge …