Month: February 2019

  • Remarkable Women of Cheltenham – Part 1

    Extracts from Cheltenham in the Great War by Neela Mann (2016, The History Press) “Cheltenham’s Prisoners of War and two remarkable ladies       The large basement at Dumfries House, in Bayshill (now County House) became the source of a life line to 197 Prisoners of War (POWs) from Cheltenham.  The house was the home of Mrs…