EAW029314 ENGLAND (1950). The town, Tewkesbury, from the south, 1950

Mitton estate

Carrant Brook

Handyman centre and filling station

Travis Perkins builder's merchant

High Street

The centre of one of Teweksbury's mediaeval open fields, The Gastons (or Gaerstun). The fields to the left and below this point, and the area including the Cemetary above as well as the A38 and houses running through the middle of it (which is a C19th turnpike road) make up the field which is shaped a bit like a knights shield in outline. This is quite apt, as this field is likely to have been the scene of at least part of the action on the 4th May 1471 when the decisive action in the Wars of the Roses took place here.

Cold War government emergency food and equipment storage depot, known latterly at least at 'the buffer depot'.

Signal box.

Pullen's hovel. A small brick agricultural building which survived until Safeway/Morrisons was built in the 1990s.

The River Swilgate, winding its way through the meadows from the south west, to its confluence with the River Tirle a few hundred yards further north.

The Abbey corn mills.

Tewkesbury's second railway station, opened in 1865 when the Tewkesbury to Malvern line was opened, closed 1961.

Priors Park estate, at this time still the site for a development of wartime/post war emergency pre-fab housing. Subsequently redeveloped into permanent council housing.

Originally the Tewkesbury Workhouse, built towards the end of the C18th, by 1950 it was a hospital.

The Gupshill Manor pub.

'Queen Margaret's Camp' a mediaeval moated site.

Healings flour mills originally built in 1865.

Ex. LMSR Ashchurch, Tewkesbury & Malvern Rly.

Tewkesbury Abbey.

River Avon.

A38(T)

A438 road bridge over the River Severn.