There's more than steam trains for the science and engineering history buff to preserve and restore.

There's more than steam trains for the science and engineering history buff to preserve and restore.

There's more than steam trains for the science and engineering history buff to preserve and restore.

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Gloucester City and Art Gallery

Well worth a visit, lots of history, and dinosaurs (from around here!) My six year old even liked some of the art.

It is an absolute scandal that the birthplace of the Jet Engine doesn't have anything more than a small sculpture and a pub to mark one of the most historic inventions of the 20th Century.

Amazing - we are in the middle of a UNESCO site of world importance, one of only 50 worldwide.

Cotswold Farm Park

This is great - I took my boys - 5 and 7 - and as far as they were concerned, it's a brill adventure playground, with animals.

Nice permanent collection, and good shows. Take a look, nice coffee shop too.

Edward Jenner Museum

In these safety nazi times, here's a thought to scare all parents...

Smallpox, caught naturally, killed up to 30% of those it infected

So, in the 18th Century many parents would deliberately infect their children by rubbing them with scabs from infected people.

For scary horrible videos, just YouTube for smallpox.

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Your local steam railway - a most excellent and scenic ride.

Dean Heritage Centre

Steam railway.

B4 ipods...

Some archive footage of the London Gloucester Reliability trials - which just happened in the Cotswolds and date back to when it was damned impressive of a car to get up an ordinary hill without stopping.

Gloucester played an important part in the history of aviation.

The very first jet was built here.

The first ever Jet plane. Frank Whittle's invention. Silent footage dubbed with decent sound effects from an F16....

English people talking about when they saw the first Jet powered plane test flight.

The Brockworth built Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet.

Gloucester has an important place in the history of flight, second only to Kitty Hawk.

Made in Brockworth

Made in Brockworth

Made in Brockworth

They call them the Purton Hulks, a mile-and-a-half-long stretch of ghostly boat wrecks that once formed the oddest of makeshift tidal erosion barriers on the River Severn.

Old Iron Mines, great day out. Caving by arrangement.

As part of the ongoing flood alleviation work in the city, works to improve the drainage at Gloucester Park and surrounding area will begin on Monday 2nd November.

Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination, hero, born this day.

Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination, hero, first tested vaccination this day.

Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination, hero, died this day.

The Gloster Javelin was designed and built in Brockworth.

Every year in Cheltenham

Edward Jenner main page

Gloucester Amateur Radio and Electronics Society