Winchcombe

The GWR’s Cotswold Festival of Steam is only a week away

Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008

[ May 24, 2008 to June 1, 2008. ] Saturday 24th May - Sunday 1st June - Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway "The Friendly Line in the Cotswolds" at Toddington, Winchcombe and Cheltenham Racecourse Stations. The 2008 Cotswold Festival of Steam marks four important milestones - 40 years since the end of steam on British Railways - 40 years since David Shepherd took delivery of "Black Prince" [...]

Gloucestershire is up there with four of Britain's 50 richest towns

Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008

The Telegraph Property has published a list of Britain's 50 richest towns and Gloucestershire has four towns on the list - Chipping Campden at No. 18, Stow-on-the-Wold at no. 33, Moreton-in-Marsh at No. 42 and Winchcombe at No. 48. “City dwellers in search of a happier way of life have boosted property values in towns across the [...]

Wildlife and Steam on Tour at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

[ April 12, 2008 to April 13, 2008. ] Saturday 12th April & Sunday 13th April at Winchcombe Station, Gloucestershire This special exhibition by the renowned wildlife artist and steam locomotive owner David Shepherd is being held in aid of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation and combines his two passions - endangered wildlife and steam locomotives. Also operating over the GWR railway during the weekend...

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has a feast for Diesel Lovers this weekend

Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008

[ April 4, 2008 to April 6, 2008. April 4, 2008 to April 6, 2008. April 4, 2008 to April 6, 2008. ] Friday April 4th, Saturday April 5th, Sunday April 6th GWR Toddington Station, Winchcombe Station & Cheltenham Racecourse Station, Gloucestershire The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (GWR) is running a Spring Diesel Gala over the weekend with an intensive passenger and freight timetable. The GWR...

Liz Hurley is in no hurry

Times of India (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008

The church committee is still waiting for kneeler cushions promised by Hurley and hubby to the parish of Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, UK.

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Dead Socialist Watch, #299

The Virtual Stoa (Free subscription) | 19/12/2007

Cornelius Cardew, experimental composer, Communist, and author of Stockhausen Serves Imperialism [pdf]; born at Greet, near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, 7 May 1936; killed in a road accident in Leyton, 19* December 1981. (*The ODNB says 19 December; other web things I’ve seen say 13 December. Other things being equal, it is current DSW policy to go along [...]