Gloucester
Gloucester was the home of Priday, Metford and Company Limited, a family milling firm which survived for over one hundred years.
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Sport and leisure
- Kingsholm Stadium is the home of Gloucester RFC, founded in 1873, one of the world's top rugby union clubs.
- Meadow Park was the home of Gloucester City A.F.C., founded in 1883, of the Southern League Premier Division. The club now play matches at Forest Green Rovers' New Lawn stadium in Nailsworth due to the 2007 Floods.
- The Gloucester Cricket Festival is held in Gloucester at the King's School.
- Public sports facilities are focused on the GL1 leisure centre, a large modern sports centre with several swimming pools, a multi-use sports hall, indoor bowls room, squash courts, gym and health spa. There is also a new Esporta complex in Brockworth.
- The Matson district is home to Gloucester Ski and Snowboard Centre dry slope skiing facility (with two slopes of 220m and 150m respectively down the side of Robinswood Hill[4]) and an 18 hole golf course.
- Gloucester City Swimming Club competes in county and national swimming championships, head coach is Graham Brookhouse, who won a Bronze Medal in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.[5]
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Culture
The annual Three Choirs Festival, originating in the eighteenth century and one of the oldest music festivals in Europe, is held in Gloucester every third year, the other venues being Hereford and Worcester. Gloucester hosted the festival in 2007, and it's next due in the city in 2010.
The city's main theatre and cultural venue is the Guildhall [1]. The Guildhall hosts a huge amount of entertainment, including live music, dance sessions, a cinema, bar, café, art gallery and much more. The Leisure Centre, GL1, occasionally hosts concerts and has a larger capacity than the Guildhall.
Gloucester hosts a variety of festivals and events, which run at both local, national and international level.
The annual Gloucester International Rhythm & Blues Festival takes place at the end of July and early August each year. [2]
Gloucester International Cajun and Zydeco Festival runs for a weekend in January each year. [3].
A Medieval Fayre is held in Westgate Street each year during the summer.
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Notable citizens
- Robert Raikes the Elder, (1690-1757), widely known as "the printer of Gloucester", founder of the Gloucester Journal, passed for a first pioneer for the freedom of the press.
- George Whitfield (1714-1770), Minister of the Church of England and a Leader in the Methodist Movement
- Robert Raikes (1735-1811), Founder of Sunday Schools
- Thomas Raikes (1741-1813), Banker and merchant in London, Governor of the Bank of England, editor of the first £1 and £2 English pound notes on 26 February 1797.
- John Clarke Whitfield (1770-1836), Organist and composer
- Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), Scientist and Inventor
- William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), Poet
- Hubert Cecil Booth (1871-1955), inventor of the vacuum cleaner
- Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), Composer and Poet
- Tom Goddard (1900-1966), Cricketer
- Fred West (1941-1995), serial killer
- Mike d'Abo (1944–), Manfred Mann singer
- Rosemary West (1953–), serial killer
- Mike Teague (1960–), Rugby player
- Tina May (1961–), Singer
- Simon Pegg (1970–), Actor, comedian and writer
- Andy Hazell (1978–), Rugby player
- Wayne Thomas (1979–), Footballer
- Alastair Cook (1984–), Cricketer
- Stuart Fleetwood (1986–), Footballer
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Twin cities
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References
- ^ The Economy in Gloucester. Gloucester City Council. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
- ^ http://www.glosfirst.co.uk/docs/Technical%20Appendix%202%20Fin%20March%202005.pdf
- ^ "Potter filming moves to cathedral", BBC Newsround, 7 February 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-10.
- ^ Gloucester Ski facilities
- ^ Gloucester City Swimming Club
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External links
- Gloucester City Council Local government web site
- BBC Gloucestershire Local news and information
- This Is Gloucestershire Local news: web site for Northcliffe Media's Gloucestershire Echo, Citizen and Forester local newspapers
- Gloucester at the Open Directory Project
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