Category: Band of Brothers
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Wooden battlefield crosses to be saved
Today, Cheltenham Civic Society has received a National Lottery grant of £9800 for a First World War memorials project in Cheltenham. Awarded through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s First World War then and now programme, the project will focus on conserving 23 wooden battlefield crosses currently located in Bouncers Lane Cemetery.
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Peace Celebrations 1919
Several peace celebration took place in Cheltenham over the summer of 1919. Commencing with a Peace Fete held in Pittville Park during July and culminating in a tribute to the ‘fighting men of Cheltenham’ in August, where more than 4,000 returned servicemen marched between Montpellier Park and Pittville Gardens. Later this year on November 10th,…
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Life in Prestbury during WW1
Click here to view the slideshow exhibited at this year’s Prestbury Village WW1 Fete. Learn more about how the village was affected by the war both on the ‘front lines’ and the home front. (Unfortunately we don’t have permission to add the soundtrack and animations to the internet, but there will be another opportunity to…
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University WW1 History Display
University of Gloucestershire students presented their work at this year’s Cotswold Centre for History & Heritage exhibition. The exhibition focuses on a range of local history topics including four panels about Cheltenham during the First World War. VIEW EXHIBITION
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Holst Street Art Style!
Next time you are passing North Place car park look out for the finished street art mural featuring Gustav Holst. The ‘exhibition’ is arranged by the Holst Birthplace Museum as part of their WW1 programme. The installation includes letterpress posters created by Pittville School and the general public in response to The Balkan News (a WW1 era…
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High-impact animation planned
Stunning animation to be projected onto the Municipal building 11 November, 5pm On Sunday November 11, as part of Cheltenham Remembers Remembrance Sunday commemoration events, a 10 to 15 minute high-impact film of WW1 imagery will be projected onto the Municipal Offices throughout the late afternoon and into the evening and will be accessible to…
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Opening of Holst WW1 exhibition
A new WW1 exhibition at the Holst Birthplace Museum was opened by the Mayor of Cheltenham on Friday. The exhibition focuses on the time composer Gustav Holst spent travelling around Salonika and Constantinople with the Y.M.C.A. teaching music to soldiers in Greece and Turkey. You can see original letters and diary entries written by Holst, …
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Cheltenham War Memorial
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” – Robert Laurence Binyon, 1914 11th November 1918 is a date that has gone down in history; marking the cessation of fighting and…
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Gustav Holst’s WW1: With the Salonika Forces
Exhibition 10 July – 15 December 2018 at the Holst Birthplace Museum, Clarence Road An exhibition exploring how Holst taught music to soldiers in Salonika and Constantinople during WW1. The story will be told through letters, diaries, photographs and archive film, as well as a reconstruction of Holst’s own room in the Salonika YMCA. Pop…
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Leave your thoughts at the ‘Listening Stations’
Marking the 100 years since the end of World War One, residents and visitors will see ‘Listening Stations’ popping up around the town as part of the Cheltenham Remembers project. https://thelisteningstationcheltenham.tumblr.com. A year-long arts programme of community engagement is focusing on the significance of World War One. As part of this the ‘Listening Stations’ are being…