tredworth Gloucester
The area we know today as
Tredworth was once a village outside Gloucester and has always retained
something of a village atmosphere. Over the years, it has somehow expanded to a
point where it is very difficult to define Tredworth, but once was the area
covering High Street and east to the Municipal Boundary that ran along by the
railway track near the old cemetery.
In the mid 1800s, parts we call Tredworth now
such as the houses south of Tredworth Rd including Wheatstone, Huxley and Parry
Road went by the name, Newtown, in preparation for future building work, but
were, in the main, still open country.
It wasn’t until the mid 1800s that the area really started to expand with the
building of new houses along Tredworth Rd to the old Midland Railway line by
Stroud Rd and north toward Victoria Street also covering a wide area to the west
of High St. This expansion was due to an increase in the cities population due
to an expansion in industrial activity.
High Street was the main shopping area that had everything from wet fish to boot
repair shops. Indeed, for people living in the Tredworth area there was really
no need to visit the city centre as it was to a great extent self contained and
this continued well into the 1940s.
Tredworth is a part of Gloucester city. These photos were taken by Robin in 2005 and the introduction was written by John.
Right by the Tredworth bridge and this was a general store , as I can remember always selling potatoes wrote on a blackboard outside ! This is the house right on the coner.
The tredworth Post office now sadly like alot of Post offices gone ! Now only one is in High St
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