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Woodard Database Sources

Miscellaneous Database known as 'Doc'

Books:

Boden: 'F.W. Harvey, Soldier, Poet', (Sutton, 1978 086299-553-1), kindly loaned by Mr. Alec Burden whose father and uncle served in 1/5th Gloster Battalion in WWII; notes by John Dixon.
Borough of Tewkesbury, Corporation Year Book of General Information 1970-71, kindly loaned by David Willavoys.
N. Christian: 'In the Shadow of Lone Tree', (ISBN 0 9528378 0 3, 1995 out of print) 10th Glosters and battle of Loos 1915 transcribed by John Dixon.
Souvenir Programme for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Victoria County History - extracts, notes by John Dixon.

Chartism:

Documents from Snigs End Settlement, Staunton, kindly loaned by Mr. and Mrs. P. Tustin.

People:

Black People

Gloucestershire Record Office references to Black People, 17th-19th century by James Turtle (GRO).
GRO Collection: A Brief View of the Nature and Effects of Negro Slavery as it exists in the Colonies of Great Britain. (with anonymous marginal comments in handwriting) summary by J. Dixon.
Churchwardens: from James Bennett Yearly Register and Magazine Vol I (1830-1839) 1840 (in Town Library) p118.
Directors of the Poor: from Bennett Vol I p37.
Subscribers to Trinity Church, 1838: from James Bennett Vol I (1830-1839) p390h and Infant School, 1840 p432f
Subscribers to the Mythe Bridge, 1823: Bennett p21
Subscriptions for defraying Mr. Tracy's Election Expenses 1831: Bennett p78.

Places:

Bredon's Norton: notes by John Dixon from 'Folk memory of Bredon's Norton' compiled by Douglas Jackson, 1990.
Bushley: Book of cuttings from turn of the century, kindly loaned by Mrs. Betty Martin, widow of Mayor F.J.O. Martin.

Politics:

Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury Division Election Results, 1885-1916, notes by John Dixon from a handout to talk to THS, by John Howe, 23rd November 2000.

Portraits:

Index of those in Town Council Chamber in Town Hall (ultimately to be included in database as photos).

War:

Gloucestershire Regiment: Organisation in WWI by Sam Eedle.

Woodard Bequest:

Notes from his researches on various topics.

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