Cirencester From Old Photographs

The Bingham Legacy

David Viner, Linda Viner

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445654751
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Today Cirencester is an attractive market town at the heart of the Cotswolds, and has been a thriving place since Roman times when as Corinium it was a regional capital. With 2, 000 years of history for the visitor to explore, it offers much surviving evidence of its rich medieval past, a focus for the highly important and prosperous wool trade. Cirencester also has a strong Victorian and Edwardian legacy, well represented in its public and private buildings. In places it is possible to imagine that little has changed over the past century or more, and this album of photographs presents a fascinating portrayal of the town as it was in the later nineteenth and earlier twentieth century – 100 years or more ago. David and Linda Viner are well-known local historians in the town. Many images are drawn from the work of the photographer W. Dennis Moss and the archives of the Bingham Library Trust, preserved in Cirencester, which continues the work of Daniel George Bingham, benefactor to his 'dear old native town'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - In and Around the Market Place and Parish Church
• Chapter 2 - The Bingham Library – ‘A Noble Gift’
• Chapter 3 - Dyer Street and London Road
• Chapter 4 - West Market Place, Gosditch Street and Dollar Street
• Chapter 5 - Coxwell Street, Thomas Street and Gloucester Street
• Chapter 6 - Abbey Grounds
• Chapter 7 - Black Jack Street, Park Street and Cecily Hill
• Chapter 8 - Cirencester Park
• Chapter 9 - Castle Street, Tetbury Road and Sheep Street
• Chapter 10 - Cricklade Street, Ashcroft, The Avenue and the Querns
• Chapter 11 - Watermoor Road and Victoria Road
• Chapter 12 - Bingham Hall & Rifle Range
• Chapter 13 - Watermoor
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• About the Authors