Bristol and Gloucester Gliding Club. Cheap, fun.

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

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

Learn to play/sing Rock and Pop.

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 collection, includes Brum

Gloucester played an important part in the history of aviation.

The very first jet was built here.

Made in Brockworth

Made in Brockworth

Made in Brockworth

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

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

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.

Gloucester Yacht Club

Haziz Belly Dance - for fitness and performance. Welcomes all new members.

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.

Model Boat Club

The best of it's type in the whole UK. Everyone should go every few years. Great for kids.

Sea Cadets

World class bird centre, great for families.

This a Museum in Gloucester, but more than that, it's a fantastic historical resource and database for anyone interested in military history, or following up family links with the forces (they have 50,000 names in their 19th Century and WW1 databases).

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

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.

Westgate Snooker & Pool Club