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The playing fields and entrance to school drive with the school in amongst the trees.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.3km<br/>The school was founded in 1539 at the Church of St Mary de Crypt in the centre of Gloucester (see [[61705]]). The school moved to these premises in 1944 as the Crypt Grammar School, and today has a special status in Science. See:- http://www.cryptschool.org/ On the day the photograph was taken a bring and buy sale was in full swing on the playing fields. In the distance the clump of trees on the top of May Hill can be seen.
©David Stowell
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.5km<br/>This used to be four tracks. The right hand two line were the former GWR main line to Paddington, whilst the left hand pair were the ex-LMS main line to Bristol. Whilst the two routes ran parallel south from here to Standish Junction, there was no connection between them at this point. The LMS line curved left beyond the bridge in the distance along the now abandoned route into Gloucester Eastgate Station. Just beyond the point at which the bank on the left finishes a single track branch from Hempstead and the Gas Works converged with the LMS lines. The tracks were reduced to the current two in the 1960s and the route to Eastgate closed in the 1970s.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.8km<br/>A slightly indistinct view of the signal box whose remains can be seen in [[556907]]. This was before the box was replaced by the new Gloucester Power Box. At this point there were 4 main line tracks. The furthest two, signalled with lower quadrant signals, were the former GWR lines from Gloucester Central to Swindon whilst the nearer two, signalled with upper quadrant signals, were the ex-Midland Railway route from Birmingham to Bristol via Gloucester Eastgate. The two sets of lines ran parallel as far a Standish junction and were operated a more or less independent railways! With the resignalling and track rationalisation this stretch was reduced to 2 tracks when the signal boxes closed. The signal box itself was a WWII era structure. Notice also the large telegraph pole routes, one on each side of the tracks, carrying the signalling and telephone circuits.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking south towards the bridge from which [[61902]] was taken. The line diverging to the right ran parallel to the main line as far as Quedegely serving the MoD and the former Dowmac concrete works just north of Naas Lane. The brick base of the former Tuffley Junction signal box can be seen to its right and the cutting just visible to the right of that was the former loop line to Gloucester Docks, with a spur which served Gloucester gasworks alongside the Bristol Road until the 1960s.
©David Stowell
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.8km<br/>By the roundabout at the junction of Stroud Road and Cole Avenue.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.8km<br/>Gasholder now redundant
©Peter Watkins
Dist:0.9km<br/>Shops, with flats above, in Windsor Drive on the southern outskirts of Gloucester.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.9km<br/>Podsmead Road in the southern suburbs of Gloucester.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.9km<br/>Late 1960's I would estimate for these terraced houses at the end of Ivory Close.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.9km<br/>Off Windsor Drive, Lower Tuffley.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.9km<br/>The house on the left is typical of many in this part of this mainly residential square. The building on the right replaced a house demolished when a 'plane crashed into it on the 27th March 1963. A twin engined Vickers Varsity aircraft crashed onto the house. The three elderly occupants survived unhurt apart from shock and scratches, however the house and the neighbouring property that the Drury family also owned were flooded with aviation fuel. The plane was on a training run from Staverton Airport and tragically the crew of two were killed. See:- http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19630327-0 and http://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/boards/topic/72-g-apaz-the-tuffley-varsity/ . From a personal perspective I remember cycling home from school nearby and seeing the area cordonned off and the remains of the fuselage embedded in the top half of the house.
©David Stowell
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©Chris Gunns

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