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Gloucester Rural District Ex-Service Camps used for housing after World War Two

The housing situation was very desperate after the end of the Second World War so much so that extensive use of service camps – RAF and Army bases – was…

Gloucester Rural District Council Building Plans 1900 to 1974

530 Building Byelaw Plans submitted for schemes within the area of Gloucester Rural District between 1935 and 1961 are currently catalogued on the Gloucestershire Archives DA27/710/1 catalogue. Another 1500 have…

Midland Building Developments Limited

I came across reference to Midland Building Developments Limited owning land near Green Street Brockworth in the Gloucester Rural District Council minute book for the Civic Year 1955-56 in relation…

Gloucester Rural District Building Plan

In time this will become an index of all plans but for now it is a short list of plans considered during 1950-51 Civic Year Plan Number Name Particulars of…

Gloucester Rural District Council Records

Gloucester Rural District Council was a pre 1974 Gloucestershire District Council covering 36 parishes encircling the County Borough of Gloucester stretching northwards along the eastern bank of the River Severn…