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The building of Cheltenham Library which adjoins Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Gerrit Dou, Selfportrait, 1635–8. The Wilson, formerly known as Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was opened in 1899. It offers free admission, and has a programme of special exhibitions.
The building finally opened as a public library in 1900. [5] The library opened with Roland Austin's Gloucestershire Collection of local history which has since moved to the Gloucestershire Archives in 2005. [6] In 1902, the Price Memorial Hall was converted to be used as part of the museum which became The Museum of Gloucester. [7] [8] [9]
It was founded when Cheltenham was a popular spa town. However, the synagogue declined with the town and closed in 1903. [6] [7] It reopened in 1939 to serve as an evacuation centre for those who were being rehoused from London, refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, and soldiers stationed in nearby bases, including a number of Americans. [7]
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Hester's Way Post Office. Cheltenham West is an area in the western part of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.It is the generic name for an area which includes the council wards of Hesters Way, Springbank, Arle, Rowanfield, Alstone, Fiddlers Green, St Mark's and some of St Peter's and the Moors.
Cheltenham in 1933. Cheltenham is located at River Chelt, which rises nearby at Dowdeswell and runs through the town on its way to the Severn. [6] It was first recorded in 803, as Celtan hom; the meaning has not been resolved with certainty, but latest scholarship concludes that the first element preserves a Celtic noun cilta, 'steep hill', here referring to the Cotswold scarp; the second ...
Foundation lodge is one of the world's oldest continuous lodges. It was founded in 1753 and moved to Cheltenham in 1817 and its brethren were responsible for building the magnificent Masonic Hall. Built in 1823 Cheltenham Masonic Hall was one of the world's first purpose built Masonic Hall, outside London.
Gloucestershire 51°53′07″N 2°07′28″W / 51.8853°N 2.1245°W / 51.8853; - Up Hatherley is a civil parish and a suburb of the spa town of Cheltenham , Gloucestershire, England.