Selection of articles with Gloucester history or heritage themes
Saxon St. Oswald's in the shadow of the Norman Cathedral

Brief History of the Town of Gloucester

From Roman fort to late-15th century medieval town

Gloucester Cathedral

Brief History of the City of Gloucester (I)

From elevation to cathedral city in 1541 to the dawn of the industrial age

City of Gloucester stretching southwards from the tower of Gloucester Cathedral

Brief History of the City of Gloucester (II)

Industrialisation and meteoric growth in the 19th and 20th centuries

Archaeological Remains of the East Gate Bastion

What Lies Beneath

Surfacing Roman Glevum in modern-day Gloucester

Lower Eastgate Street

The Siege of Gloucester

Casting the first cloud over the Royalist Summer in the English Civil War

Archaeological Remains of the East Gate Bastion

Gloucester Castle

A castle fit for kings, queens and miscreants

Archaeological Remains of the East Gate Bastion

The Ten Gates of Gloucester

The gates of Gloucester from the Roman period to the 19th century

Westgate Street

Roman Riverfront at Gloucester

The Roman port and riverfront at Gloucester

Severn flooding The Quay

The Fickleness of Sabrina

Two thousand years of the River Severn at Gloucester

Gloucester Park War Memorials

Gloucester Pro Patria

War memorials in Gloucester and some of the story behind them

The grave of Ivor Gurney

Rosemary for Remembrance

The troubled life of Ivor Gurney, composer, poet, warrior

The Oxbode

Selling the Soul

The Impact of Retail on Gloucester's Heritage

Eastgate Street

What were they thinking?

Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, urban planner, butcher of historic Gloucester or pragmatic preservationist?

Eastgate Street

Heritage at Risk

Listed sites placed on the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register


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