Elmore was the village near Gloucester where several generations of my ancestors lived until the last one to be born there moved away to farm other people’s land and married in 1830. He returned to be buried like many other Vicks who had moved away. I was fortunate in having a parishioner ferry me to and […]
This church is in the heart of Gloucester and features in baptismal, marriage and death records of numerous Vicks who lived in Gloucester. Parts of it hail from the 12th century but as with most buildings it has undergone many renovations. The building beside it, the Crypt School was built in the mid 1500s to provide free […]
It is a museum of social history housed in 500 year old buildings. I was lucky that the day I chose to go was the annual day for free entry and cider pressing by Fergus the horse. The exhibits were varied. Click on the photo if you want to read the writing. The museum […]
My initial thoughts on the first day after walking through Gloucester’s main streets was that few old buildings remained apart from a couple of very distinctive ones. Once I’d learnt to look up I realised many were partly camouflaged by modern shopfronts or hidden down small alleys. There are so many old buildings of interest that […]