The Bromsgrove Society - Pride, Preservation, Progress
Welcome to the Bromsgrove Society
The Bromsgrove Society exists to preserve the history and promote the sustainable development of the town of Bromsgrove in north Worcestershire.
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Publications
Bromsgrove Bookstall
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Our online bookstall has a wide variety of books about Bromsgrove and the surrounding area. Our store is hosted externally in a secure site operated by SumUp. You can access it here (transfers to external site). Postage and packing is £2.00 for order values below £5.00, and £3.50 for orders of £5.00 or more. This will be added at checkout. For orders weighing 2kg or more, or for overseas rates please contact us at books [@] bsoc.co.uk before ordering. We accept payment by credit/debit card using the SumUp gateway. In addition, we have many high quality secondhand titles - see the list below. If you wish to purchase any of these secondhand titles contact us at books [@] bsoc.co.uk.
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Worcestershire (General). All single, pre-owned copies.
We are able to offer good quality, single copies of the following secondhand books. To purchase any of these titles please email us at books [at] bsoc.co.uk and we will arrange for payment and delivery.
A Belbroughton Miscellany. M. Hinton & A. Spier, 1985, £5
A Bromsgrove Carpenter’s Tale. Margaret Cooper, 2001, £4
A Short History of Clent. John Amphlett, 1991, £6
Bromsgrove and the Housmans. John Pugh, 1975, £5
Bromsgrove Now and Then. Alan & Sheila Richards, 1988, £15
Bromsgrove, Images of England series. Margaret Cooper, 1999, £8
Bygone Bromsgrome and All That. Alan Richards and Norman Neason, 1991, £2
Bygone Bromsgrove Picture Book. Alan & Sheila Richard, 1983, £12
Bygone Bromsgrove. Alan Richards, Rev. W. Awdry & others, £6
Clent Celebrated. Carole Hodgson, 1999, £5
Family Walks around Bromsgrove and Droitwich. Margaret Cooper, 1988, £3
George Nicholson: Printer at Stourport. Audrey Cooper, 2001, £2
Ghosts, Murders and Scandals of Worcestershire, II. Anne Bradford, 2009, £3
Here Lyeth the Body – A Look at Worcestershire Churchyards. Sam Redgrave, 1992, £3
John Corbett – Pillar of Salt. Barbara Middlemass and Joe Hunt, 1999, £6
Memories of Wychbold, Robin Skerratt, 2001, £4
More Curiosities of Worcestershire. Ann Moore, 2000, £3
Nine Nightingales (Tardebigge). Pat Warner, 1997, £7
Secrets of Worcestershire. Irene Boston, 1997, £4
Sentenced to ‘Beyond the Seas’. David Clark, 2013, £9
The Hughes Collection - Bromsgrove’s Victorian Photographic Treasury. 2008, £4
The Man Who Adopted Bromsgrove: An Autobiography. Dennis Norton, 2017, £9
Times Past in Belbrought: Shops and Shopping. D. Cope, 1996, £3
Turnpikes, Tollgates and Milestones in South Worcestershire. B.G. Cox, 1980, £4
Worcestershire Privies. Alan Richards, 1999, £6
Worcestershire. Barry Freeman, 1996, £4
Privacy Policy
This privacy notice relates to your use of the Bromsgrove Society website with url www.bsoc.co.uk.
Electronic Storage
Information regarding your login details, name, address, phone number, email and order activity will be stored on a computer. This information will only be used by the Bromsgrove Society to fulfil your online orders from this website, including membership applications. Details held on Bromsgrove Society computers will not be passed to any other organisations.
Online Payments
Online payments from this website are made via our preferred payment partners, Paypal Payment Services and Eventbrite, and as such no banking, debit or credit card details are stored on Bromsgrove Society computers. We will pass your name, address, email and order details to card processing partners in order for them to process your payment. Providers will provide a link to their own Privacy Policy on their payment processing page.
Cookies
In order to process orders, cookies (small data files) will be stored on customer's computers. This is normal practice for online purchases with shopping cart and online payment facilities. The Bromsgrove Society does not use cookies for advertising purposes.
Analytics
Visits to this website are also recorded by Google Analytics in order to provide anonymous statistics to assist us in website capacity planning and to assist with decisions on which products to make available online. The following lists some of the information recorded.
- Country/town of origin (we need to add postal rates by country so must ensure that all countries are included).
- Number of visits and pages viewed (this indicates areas of interest which we may expand at a later date).
- How customers came to our site, e.g. via a Google search, referral from another site, other search engines, or direct.
- Keywords used in search engines (this helps us to decide which product ranges we may expand in the future).
None of the above Google Analytics data can be traced back to an individual computer.
High Street Posters
The Bromsgrove Townscape Heritage Initiative
In September 2014 some of the historice buildings on The Strand, High Street and Worcester Road took part in a street gallery, entitled The High Street on Parade. Participating shops displayed an information panel in their shop window detailing the history of the building using archival images and the latest research by local historians. Additional exhibition space was provided at Bromsgrove Library.
These posters are reproduced here and are free to download for private and non-commercial use only.
The High Street on Parade exhibition and associated posters were supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and were a collaboration between Bromsgrove District Council’s Townscape Heritage Initiative, Worcestershire County Council Archives and Archaeology and local historians from the Bromsgrove Society: Julian Hunt and Jenny Townshend.
All posters are copyright of these individuals and organisations. In addition, some photographs are reproduced courtesy of the Tim Brotherton Collection.
Back Issues of the Bromsgrove Rousler
DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES WITH PAYPAL, THE ROULSER DOWNLOAD FACILITY IS UNAVAILABLE AT PRESENT. WE HOPE TO RESTORE IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. IN THE MEANTIME PLEASE CONTACT US AT ROUSLER [AT] BSOC.CO.UK TO ENQUIRE ABOUT THE ISSUE YOU ARE INTERESTED IN.
Back issues of the Bromsgrove Rousler are now available to purchase from this site at a cost of £2.00 each. We accept payment by credit/debit card or Paypal, using the Paypal gateway.
Please select from the list below: you can either buy individual editions, using the Buy Now button, or add multiple editions to your cart and pay in a single checkout (See 'Your Cart' on the top righthand side).
After payment is completed you will be sent a link to access your downloads. You can download the Rousler Index here.
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Stockists of Bromsgrove Rousler, No. 38
List correct as at 14 November 2023
- W.H. Smith, High Street
- Foto Factory, High Street
- Coffee 2, High Street
- Bromsgrove Cobbler, Church Street
- Artyfacts, The Strand
- Duncombe's Butchers, Golden Cross Lane, Catshill
- Spar Post Office, Golden Cross Lane, Catshill
- Barnt Green Post Office, Barnt Green
- Blackwell Post Office, Green Hill, Blackwell
- Kennedy's Hardware, New Road, Rubery
- Singletons Nursery, Birmingham Road, Marlbrook
- Willowbrook Garden Centre, Stourbridge Road, Catshill
- Avoncroft Museum
- Banner Foods, Aston Fields
- Deansway Store, off Whitford Road
- Stoke Prior Post Office, Ryefield Road, Stoke Prior
- The Boat Shack, Worcester Road, Upton Warren
- Feckenham Village Shop
- Rowberry's Garden Centre
You can also purchase your Rousler from our online bookstall, postage-free.
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About the Bromsgrove Guild
The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts was founded in 1898 by the sculptor Walter Gilbert. During the next 70 years the firm developed into a thriving commercial enterprise, acquiring an international reputation for the high quality of its craftmanship in metalwork, woodcarving, plasterwork, stained glass and other media.
Celebrated Guild contracts included Liverpool's famous Liver Birds, ornate metalwork on the great Cunarders Lusitania and Queen Mary, and the statue of Hygiea which stands in the garden of Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence. However, the Bromsgrove Guild's most memorable commission was to create the wrought iron gates of Buckingham Palace. As a result of completing this particular task the Guild received a Royal Warrant in 1908.
When not working such high profile projects, the firm produced large quantities of lead rainwater goods, garden statuary, fountains, sundials, wrought ironwork and bronze light fittings.