New to the Heritage Hub?
Welcome to Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, the home of Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucestershire Family History Society, Gloucestershire Police Archives and a number of other heritage charities, including Gloucester History Festival.
Outdoor visitors
You are welcome to visit our beautiful community garden and enjoy our heritage inspired art throughout the week at our site in Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester GL1 3DW. If you can’t visit in person, find out more about the Hub garden and other Gloucestershire gardens from our online display
There are two complimentary walking trails of Kingsholm. The new “Kingsholm Looking Up” trail has been specially commissioned by the History Festival. You can see an online version of it or download it from the History Festival website.
There is also the Kingsholm & Wotton heritage walking tour, produced by the Kingsholm & Wotton Neighbourhood Partnership, which you can see online
Online visitors - opportunities to explore our free resources online
- Online exhibitions - 18, Alexandra Road, Gloucester features on the Kingsholm Looking Up walking trail. Visit our Kindertransport exhibition to find out more about its secret history.
- Home cinema - a series of short films relating to Gloucestershire with a running time of less than 5 minutes. So why not grab some popcorn and enjoy an outing to our home cinema? Further options are available on the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub YouTube channel.
- Know Your Place digital maps - explore your local area by popping in your postcode and finding out what the area was like before you lived there.
- Jigsaws - find a bank of virtual jigsaws from images on our collections by visiting free website website jigidi.com and typing heritage hub into the search box.
- Make your own history - Submit a Covid diary… Or take part in our “60 seconds with …..” challenge.
Other excellent heritage-based websites and resources to explore
- Barton & Tredworth Community History - recording and celebrating Barton & Tredworth’s past and present
- Gloucester Rugby Heritage - preserving and sharing the history of Gloucester Rugby Club
- Fielding & Platt History - gathering & sharing memories of Gloucester’s great engineering firm
- Dowty Heritage - the history of Gloucestershire’s global engineering group
- Gloucestershire Police Archives - capturing and sharing Gloucestershire’s police history and heritage
- Victoria County History Gloucestershire - the “big red books“ have gone online!
- Gloucestershire Traditions - one stop website for songs and tunes collected in Gloucestershire
We hope this has whetted your appetite! Our website has a wealth of information and resources for you to explore, whether you’re interested in local history, family history, Gloucester or the wider county. Why not visit our homepage and have a good look around?
The Gloucestershire Heritage Hub is a network of groups and individuals with a shared interest in gathering, keeping and sharing archives to tell the story of Gloucestershire people and places through the ages.