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Amazing - we are in the middle of a UNESCO site of world importance, one of only 50 worldwide.
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English people talking about when they saw the first Jet powered plane test flight.
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Nice permanent collection, and good shows. Take a look, nice coffee shop too.
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Old Iron Mines, great day out. Caving by arrangement.
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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.
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Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination, hero, born this day.
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Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination, hero, died this day.
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Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination, hero, first tested vaccination this day.
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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.
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Gloucester played an important part in the history of aviation.
The very first jet was built here.
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Gloucester has an important place in the history of flight, second only to Kitty Hawk.
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The first ever Jet plane. Frank Whittle's invention. Silent footage dubbed with decent sound effects from an F16....
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Gloucester Amateur Radio and Electronics Society
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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.
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Gloucester Model Flying Club
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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Your local steam railway - a most excellent and scenic ride.
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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.
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Lower Severn Community Flood Information Network
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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.
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The Brockworth built Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet.
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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.
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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.
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