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Ultra-fast Internet Comes to Oakridge

Since the advent of the Internet age Oakridge residents had had to put up with very slow speed connections either via their old fashioned phone lines…

Oakridge locals who served in the Great War and survived

In 2018, to commemorate the end of the Great War, Oakridge History Group researched and documented those who served in the Great War and survived to…

After the end of WW1, Rothenstein was offered the post of Principal of the Royal College of Art in London. This was something very close to his heart,…

Iles Green, Previously known as Iles Green House, Iles Green Farm and Turner's Farm

Images are from a property sales brochure, 2018.Iles Green dates back to the early part of the 17th century. Sir William Rothenstein, artist and,…

Oakridge from the pages of the Gloucestershire Gazette

Pictures L - R, T - B:1. The Butchers Arms Landlord, Peter Coupe 2. Oakridge Show - Winner of flower section 3 . Butchers Arms Group 4. May Queen…

Queenie Pearman remembers WWI & WWII

During WWI the women in the village took in machining work for one of the factories on Brick Row where Mr White, who lived in the village worked. The…

Wilful Damage at Bisley

Williant Gardner, Frank Gardner, Walter Whitinq, and Alfred Alley, youths of Oakridge, were charged with doing wilful damage to a void house at…

When the Trains Stopped at Chalford - by Geoffry Dearmer

Fifty years ago "The fastest train in the world" was reputed to be the run from Paddington, Reading, Swindon to Kemble. After that it dawdled…