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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 Cheltenham Looker-On was a social and literary weekly periodical published in Cheltenham, England, between 1833 and 1920. The Looker-On was founded in 1833 by Henry Davies , then the librarian and bookseller of Montpellier Spa , [ 1 ] with its first issue in May 1833.
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]
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 ...
Prestbury is a village and civil parish in the borough of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. Located on the outskirts of Cheltenham and part of the Tewkesbury parliamentary constituency. The parish of Prestbury had a population of 6,981 according to the 2011 census. [1]
Cheltenham Masonic Hall consists principally of a Lodge Room, Dining Room, Robing Rooms, Bar, Kitchen, Library and Museum and a very distinctive spiral staircase. A fully equipped basement kitchen is used by a professional chef to provide food for up to 60 brethren and guests on lodge nights.
Charlton Kings is in the Charlton Kings ward of Cheltenham Borough Council, the Charlton Kings division of Gloucestershire County Council and the parliamentary constituency of Cheltenham. The Parish Council has a local Parish Plan which includes detail on its boundaries, urban and countryside areas, its responsibilities, its community profiles ...
The railway station during its operation Site of the station after closure. Bishop's Cleeve was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, opened on 1 June 1906 by the Great Western Railway and running from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham, part of a mainline from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales.