Dursley Lantern 2025
Contents:
- Murderer Ellen Rutter, 'The Queen of Dursley'
- Early Accidents on the Dursley Railway
- The Churches of Dursley and Cam (Part 2)
- Mary Ricketts of Snooks Hill
- The Chantry, Long Street, Dursley
- Moving to Dursley - Migration Since 1900
- Two Hundred Years of History - Cam Methodist ChurchDursley Days
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Dursley Lantern 2024
Contents:
- Dursley Days
- An Unassuming House's Interesting History
- The Dursley Paintings of George Pryce
- Shakespeare and Dursley - The Final Word?
- Lionel Jones - Crossing a Century
- The Churches of Dursley and Cam (Part 1)
- Closure of the Berkeley Road to Sharpness Branch Line
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2023
Contents:
- Mary Anne Wall, nee Loveday (1800-1880)
- A Look Back at the Newspapers
- Education in Cam and Dursley
- The Story behind Two World War II Gas Masks
- The Rise and Fall in the Fortunes of Jacobs House
- Apprenticeship at R.A. Lister & Co. Ltd, 1961 to 1966
- A Journey Through Time, The History of Cam Mills from 1522
- A Tribute to Alberto Jorge 'Joe' Morris
- The Cam Ploughman, 'Ploughing on a Sunday'
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2022
Contents:
- From Wales to Cam - A Blacksmith's Life Story
- Memories of Matt Welsh and his contribution to Cam and Dursley
- Royal Artillery at Dursley, 1939-1940
- Early Inhabitants of Dursley - A Conjecture
- A Study of Two Views of Cam Station
- Dursley, 17th Century Piracy and the Stockwell Millions
- Dursley Clothiers and their Mills, 1450-1600
- Notes on the Exell Family
- Jessamine House - A Georgian Gem or an Awful Eyesore?
- The Foundation of the Dursley Union Workhouse
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2021
Contents:
- Woodmancote Court - A House Through Time
- Early Mawdsley's DC Generator Discovered 'Down-Under'
- The Early Workhouse in Dursley
- Staying in Tune - The Brass Bands of Dursley
- Robert Browning Lister (1894-1975)
- Stone Stiles around Cam and Beyond
- The Stinchcombe Heritage Trail - A Legacy of Lockdown
- Friends at Christmas
- A Look Back at the Newspapers
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2020
Contents:
- Starting Work at Cam Mills - The First Six Months
- A Shopping Trip in Parsonage Street in 1841
- Early Childhood and Our Move to Dursley
- Memories of School Days at Dursley Grammar School
- A Look Back at the Newspapers
- Take a Step Back in Time to Saxon Dursley
- Memories of Growing Up in Cam and Dursley
- Tom Clarke, Railway Ganger
- B.G.A.S. Transactions from 1952 to 2008
- My Memories of Cam
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2019
Contents:
- Lady Helena Gleichen OBE (1873 - 1947)
- A Wartime Experience - Memoirs of an American in Dursley
- A Look Back at the Newspapers - A lucky Escape for the Town Hall
- Notes on the Manor of Cam
- Daniels (Cam) Ltd, Fibreboard Manufacturers
- A Curious Tale from 17th Century Dursley
- A Visit to Dursley in 1886 - The Bristol and Gloucs. Arch. Society Comes to Town
- A Chance Encounter - From Dursley to a Life in the USA
- Dursley Gardeners
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Dursley Lantern 2018
Contents:
- A Plaque to Commemorate R.A. Lister & Co. Ltd
- Richard Hames Younghusband - A Flying Life and a Brief Encounter with Dursley
- Memories of my Early Life in Dursley
- A Visit to Dursley - A Reprint from an article in Shireways
- Betty Seabrook - My Time in Dursley and Cam
- Early Recollections of the Printing Trade in Dursley
- A Look Back at the Newspapers - A Mixed Bag of Local Stories
- A Perspective on the Local Area and Population in 1851
- Of Coins and Tokens
- Looking Back at the Browns - Tales of a Coaley Family
- The Spanish Flu
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Dursley Lantern 2017
Contents:
- David Evans - Recollections of my life in Dursley
- From Coffee Tavern to Cinema
- A Projectionist at the Regal Cinema
- ...also, Doris Mary Wyatt
- A Look Back at the Newspapers - Trading in the Town
- Memories of a Giant - Recollections of one man's time at Bymacks
- The Story of My Life - Growing Up in Dursley
- Revd George Adsley Piper - Cam's Chaplain in the First World War
- All Change! - Site of the Bell & Castle Hotel
A4, 40 pages - £5 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2016
Contents:
- Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic
- The Summers of 1975 and 1976 and the 16 Month Drought
- Dursley and the Tent Methodists
- Dick Barton - Special Agent
- A Face from the Past
- Before and After Mervyn
- Dennis Haddrell and The Lions Club International
- The Twemlow Trust - A Living Legacy
- 'Jack' Johnson and the Charfield Railway Crash of 1928
A4, 40 pages - £5 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2015
Contents:
- Memories of World War Two
- I Remember the Winterbotham Memorial Gardens
- Grief and Gratitude - WW1 Memorials in the Dursley Area
- The Purnells and a Ghost Story
- Dick King of Cam - An Epic Ride
- In Memoriam - A tribute to Mary Clark
- A Christmas Letter from Dursley - December 1915
- The Old Bell Hotel, Dursley
- William Tyndale 1494-1536
- Reporting on the Weather - A Look Back through the Newspapers
- Basil Woodward - Prisoner of War
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Dursley Lantern 2014
Contents:
- Mary Clark - Reflections on Moving to Dursley
- Dursley - Ivor Gurney and Shakespeare
- The Postman's Snuffbox
- Some Dates in the History of Dursley
- Knight of the Shire Elections, 1867
- One Way Ticket to Dursley
- Reminiscences of Dursley and Cam
- Cam's Welcome House
- Snowball the War Horse
- Water Supply in the Dursley Area, 1890-1974
- A Schoolboy's View of World War Two
- The Dursley Mummers are out tonight
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Dursley Lantern 2013
Contents:
- Lionel Ayliffe, 1917-2013 - A Tribute
- Happy New Year - Now That's What You Call a Celebration
- The Little Lighter called Cam
- Reverend Norman Crossman of Lower Cam
- Buses in Dursley
- Dursley Secondary School's 'HMS Pinafore'
- Dursley Church Clock
- Dursley Ladies in the News
- A Budding Genius
- Visit of Pedersen Cyclists, 19th - 22nd September 2013
- Every Step a Memory - Wartime Childhood Memories from the Dursley Area
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Dursley Lantern 2012
Contents:
- Miss Joan Kingham - Memories of a Wonderful Life
- Church Bellringing in Dursley
- A Brief History of Travel and Transportation in the Dursley Area
- The Boy Racers of 1908
- Tree Planting for the Coronation of King George VI
- Children’s Saturday Morning Cinema Club
- The Vizards of Dursley
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Dursley Lantern 2011
Contents:
- Notes from the Past, Memories of Dursley's History
- Edmund Woodward and One Tree Hill
- The Tale of a Tower - Fact or Fiction
- My Life Story
- A Look at Dursley’s Listed Buildings
- News from the Parish
- The Hurndalls of Dursley
- An Ingenious Town
- Sporting Days in Dursley and Cam
- Memories of Cam Peak
A4, 40 pages - £4 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2010
Contents:
- A Dursley Milkman's Day
- Reminiscences of Dursley Parish Church Choir, 1943-1952
- Charles Lister, CBE JP, 1872-1965
- The Story of Allastair and Hilda
- The International Friendship League - Dursley Branch
- More on the Adoption of HMS Trident in 1942
- The Rise and Fall of the Severn Railway Bridge
- Wartime Rationing, 1939-1945
- Further Memories from Berkeley Road
- WW1 Changed Dursley Forever
- 19th Century Crime in Dursley
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Dursley Lantern 2009
Contents:
- William and Sarah Harrold of Dursley
- Sharpness and D-Day
- Dursley's Old Time Constable
- Mikael and Me
- Captain George Augustus Graham and Rednock
- News from the Parish
- Industrial Transport - A Pictorial View
- 100 Years Not Out
- The Hopton Oak
- An Old Gloucestershire Lantern
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Dursley Lantern 2008
Contents:
- The Dursley Field Gun
- Pages of the Past
- Memories of Kingshill Road in World War II
- News from the Parish
- The Saga of Dursley Swimming Pool
- Make Pumps Fifteen!
- Memories of the 'Prince of Wales' and Berkeley Road
- The Dursley Saddlers
- Forgotten - Dursley's 'Saint George'
- Draycott Mill, Cam - A Pictorial View
- Reminiscence of the 41st
A4, 44 pages - £4 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2007
Contents:
- King’s Hill
- Dursley Parish Church
- Memories of Dursley and Cam
- Cold War Cam and Dursley
- A Memory of Castle Farm
- Dursley Town Centre Newsagents
- HMS Dursley Galley
- One Lamp Cam
- Cam - Then and Now
- Turnpike Trusts in the Dursley Area
Dursley Lantern 2006
Contents:
- Dursley goes International
- The Stiff Families of Dursley and Cam
- Memories of Life in Lister’s Foundry 70 Years Ago
- A Boat named Dursley
- The Curate and the Battle of the Balls
- A Tour of Dursley in 1883
- Dursley's Adopted Warship - HMS Trident
- The Bailiffs of Dursley
- The Summer of 1976 Remembered
- 'Almost a Centenarian' - Ignatius Dark and the Cam National School
A4, 44 pages - £4 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2005
Contents:
- Rope Making in Dursley
- Aircraft Down! Tales of Crashes in Cam and Dursley
- The Fire Bell on Dursley Town Hall
- Dursley - Then and Now
- Coal Gas in Dursley
- A Look through the Log Books - School Life in late Victorian Days
- Dursley Lanterns
- The Gazette - Part of the Community
- The Past in Pictures - Station Road, Cam
- The Curious Case of John Venn
- Night Out for Ninepence - Memories of Picturegoing in Dursley
A4, 40 pages - £4 + P&P
Dursley Lantern 2004
Contents:
- Cruelty at Dursley Union Workhouse
- The Rangers House
- Racing Horses on Stinchcombe Hill
- The War Memorial Gates and the Story of Dursley's VC
- Early Advertising in Dursley
- Destination Dursley - Wartime Evacuation to a Cotswold Town
- Climbing Boys
- Temperance in Cam and Dursley
- Reminiscences of Dursley and Cam
A4, 32 pages - £4 + P&P