Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote 1945-1945 one time owner of Watermoor House & Abbey House and grounds.
Many people associate Cirencester with the Romans who inhabited the town from around 43AD to 75AD. But Cirencester amounts to much more than its Roman heritage; It is a town full of stories, events and personal histories that belong to the ordinary people that live by the side of the River Churn. This website is about all this and provides a Social and Popular history of the last hundred years or so in Cirencester.
The website is a small selection from my archive of around 8 million photographs and artifacts to do with Cirencester Gloucestershire.
Old Ciren - a celebration of all that's good and great about Cirencester - the Capital of the Cotswolds.
Mrs Pankhurst attends 'Votes for Women' meeting in the Bingham Hall in July 1911.
Dr Robert Heaven JP
M.A, M.Sc, D.Art
Old Ciren Archivist
Congregational Church Dyer Street Demolished in 1974
Lost Cirencester - Amberly Press 2021
OldCiren is a Social History Group and is represented on Social Media by the Facebook OldCiren group. The group is open to anyone with contacts or links to Cirencester in any shape or form; to share photos and memories of all that makes Cirencester the Capital of the Cotswolds. Come and join us!
Galleries
Student Nurse Saxton 1946 by the artist Frank Cadogan Cowper R.A 1877-1958
Cadogan known as the last of the Pre-Raphaelite painters had a studio in Cirencester at the Meads. Whilst he was in the Memorial Hospital in 1945 he was attended to by Joan Saxton and painted this picture as a tribute to her care. Picture is now at the Querns Hospital Cirencester
Mr Mills owner of the Stratton Stores and Post office 1988
WOOLWORTH'S Cricklade Street Cirencester 1930-2008
Market Place view towards Dyer Street 1965.
Nancy Rogers - bike delivery of fish to locals for many years. Pictures here with Charles Barnett 1968
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Pete Strange Mobile Grocer in a converted furniture van toured the estates in Cirencester throughout the 1950's and 60's