Page last updated 1 October 2016

WW1 Project News - March 2016 The Man not on any memorial? By a stroke of timing the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has started a project on war graves in local churchyards. All the detailed biography pages of the names on Cirencester’s first world war memorials are now released here.

Our new season has begun with cracking talk by David Jacques FSA  about the oldest human settlements found in the area. If you missed it, look out for a report in the WGS. Our next meeting is on 26th October with a talk about what happened here after the Romans. Subscriptions are now due if you do not have a standing order (over 150 members do, it saves hunting for money as you are rushing out to the meeting!) Guests are welcome to try us out for only £3. See you all at our October meeting! You've probably seen in the press over the last year or so that there are plans to reinstate the statues of John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary in the niches on the Cirencester parish church tower. There will be a public consultation concerning the design and installation of the statues from Saturday 5th November to Monday 14th November in the parish church with information on how to give feedback. Our Summer Newsletter, bigger than before, has now been mailed out to members. Contents are listed in publications and the new programme is now on line. Our last meeting of the season in May was our AGM and a talk on Highwaymen of Gloucestershire by John Putley. The new season starts in September, and will have more meetings, with the upcoming “Abbey 900” commemorations. As Abbey 900 is coming up, we have a page showing some of what members have written and done over the years, about the Augustinian Abbey of St. Mary, starting from almost our first year, and ending with a cautionary tale! Do keep revisiting us, or watch our Facebook page. All last season’s lectures are reviewed online on the Reports Page. An addition to the republication of Newsletter articles is one about Wiggold Aerodrome by Philip Griffiths. David Viner’s Obelisk is now a web page rather than a pdf, with a note on recent change to the area. We intend to republish all the pages that are currently in pdf form, as it makes additions of pictures and editing easier. This will take some time! The latest [and possibly last!] County Newsletter is here. Do read it for the testament of youth. If you have tidbits for facebook contact the webmaster, who can give you direct access to the page. All copies of the History Reports issued by GRCC History Committee, now defunct, have been put on line by the successor organisation GLHA. There are several articles by members. Find them at gloshistory.org.uk/reprints

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Know Your Place West is underway. Do keep following it, as it will cover Gloucestershire one day. If you have an interest in Bristol or South Gloucs. then the maps are up and running. The headline map to several introductory pages is of Somerford Keynes. By chance a copy of this map was presented to the village last year!

The old Memorial Hospital on Sheep Street (used within the last 30 years) holds the Bannatyne memorial staircase. It is looking very dilapidated now as CDC has been wanting to knock it down for years. Do you think it should be saved?