Author: Julie

Can you help with an enquiry? – I wonder if anyone can recall, the remains of the “anti tank” feature,that was on the Bath Road before the Gol...

SMITH Desmond Thomas died France 27/07/1944 aged 21. Is anyone connected to this family from Dudbridge Hill. We’d love to find a photo of Desmond. He was ...

Can you help with the Mills / Pollard / Tanner family in connection to our WW2 memorial? Any photos or information welcomed. Glyndwr Jesse (known as Jesse) Poll...

He born in 1913 to Bertie and Nellie (Pollard) at Newent, as the third of five children. Bertie was a dairyman and the family lived for many years in Paganhill ...

Are you related to the Hanks family? Private (Alfred) George Hanks is named on Rodborough’s WW2 memorial. He was born in the Horsley area in 1914, the you...

Albert was born on 25th April 1909 in Woodchester to William and Elizabeth (Herbert). The family was large; William had 6 children from a first marriage that le...

Cecil Burcher We are still seeking information on some of the men on the WW2 memorial. The photo is of Edie nee Harrison in 1908. She became the stepmother of C...

Martin White has let us know that his book largely about growing up in Rodborough from 1955 to 1963, has been published and is available on Amazon. Here is the ...

We have been recently loaned some records and you can read a summary here:

The lettering on Rodborough’s WW2 memorial has been repainted thanks to generous donations to Remembering Rodborough. The wording is much more legible, th...

Rodborough Parish Minute Book – 9th April 1840“At a special vestry meeting held this day according to a notice fixed on the church door and pursuant...

I have a feeling of delight and amazement when I become aware of something that I must have passed hundreds of times and not noticed. Cresby Brown or ‘Mr ...

All the news in the media about the Armistice centenary has stimulated many family memories. We have been sent a photo of Albert Edward (Ted) Clarke who lived i...

It’s finally time for Rodborough to say thank you to Sergeant John Cuthbert who gave his young life in 1944 when his plane was lost, believed to have been shot ...

After a beautiful service on Remembrance Sunday flowers and messages were placed under the WW1 memorial in an attempt to recreate an impression of the striking ...

Remember our note last year about phone boxes being decommissioned?

We have had an enquiry about the ‘Lonely tree’ on the common. Does anyone know its age? Has anything been written about it?

The war memorial was cleaned yesterday and is looking much better. It may continue to lighten a little in the next few days as the cleaning agents continue to w...

Marked on the 1909 land survey map as Allotments Gardens. Does anyone have any idea how far back this land use goes?

We are very excited to have been loaned Rodborough Scouts Archive. We will be busy scanning for quite a while, but hope to share some of the pictures here. This...