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A History of the County of Gloucester
… area of the town from an early date. Sheep Lane near the south gate, so called by the mid 13th century, 34 may have … 39 In the early 19th century horse sales were held at the south end of Parker's Row (later Brunswick Road). 40 In 1823 … by William Price. 45 The Eastgate market extended from the south-west side of Eastgate Street, on which there was a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… replaced by St. Barnabas (1940). Commercial development south of the city centre led in 1934 to the closure of St. … with St. John the Baptist. Suburban development east and south of the city was followed by the consecration of St. … style, comprised a chancel with north vestry rooms and south aisle (later a chapel) and an aisled and clerestoried …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the extraparochial places of Littleworth, North Hamlet, South Hamlet, and the vill of Wotton, which intermixed with … lay east of the river Severn's eastern channel and in the south took in the west side of Robins Wood Hill. In places it … a. of arable, 58 a. of meadow, and 4 a. of pasture in a moor. The king also took the profits of a beech wood, which …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the movement of people to new residential suburbs east and south of the city and by the growth from the 1950s of a … in 1934. There were then seven Methodist chapels in the south part of the city and five of them, including the new … in the expanding residential suburbs to the east and south, and in some older suburbs people of West Indian origin …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… buildings PUBLIC BUILDINGS BOOTHALL. 1 A building on the south side of Westgate Street, in the block between Berkeley … its roof supported by a double row of wooden posts. 16 The south end of the hall was rebuilt in brick in 1761 following … headquarters. In the early 1970s another block was built south of Quay Street on the site of the old county militia …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and in 1636 John Scriven at his own cost built a conduit south of the market house in Southgate Street. 17 Another … 1948 the Gloucester works continued in use as one of the South West Gas Board's chief manufacturing stations until the … 16th century there were other common dunghills at the south end of Hare Lane and at Goose ditch outside the east …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of a ship canal terminating at a basin or dock on the south side of the city. That project was completed in 1827 33 … the warehouses lying behind it in the county. 41 To the south vessels were prevented from mooring along the river … below Llanthony bridge where ships of 750 tons could moor. At Llanthony Quay works completed in 1962 included the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was extended southwards by two bays to the street and a south-west tower and spire were built. A new presbytery was … the parish church for much of the city and the area to the south and west in 1981 when Sunday masses were attended by as … 28 which became the focus for Catholic worship in the south part of the parish. In 1980, when mass was said in the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The priory of Llanthony Secunda occupied a low-lying site south-west of the town, bounded on the west side by the lane to Hempsted and on the south side by the Sud brook. The short period which elapsed … past was sometimes taken for the ruins of the church. 14 South of the barn, on a north-south alignment, ran a long …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1643. 94 Ran from the Bristol road to the Severn at the south boundary of the city. The houses there were destroyed … Lane, mid 13th cent., 95 1535. Ran from Greyfriars to the south wall of the city, parallel to Southgate Street. It was … used as a garden in 1760. 96 Shipsters Lane. Ran along the south wall of the city, west of the south gate. Mostly …