Cotswolds - The Way We Were | Part 2: Nature's Gentlemen & Hard Working Women

In the late 19th - early 20th century, Joseph Arthur Gibbs and Alfred Williams documented everyday life in the villages of the Cotswolds and using their evocative descriptions combined with a wonderful collection of old photographs and archive film, this fascinating series brings to life the Cotswolds of a bygone age.
The second film in the series looks at the people of the Cotswolds, from labourers to farmers
This unique journey into the past will delight, entertain and touch the hearts of anyone with an interest in the Cotswolds.
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[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Wonderful . Good narration . When English was correctly spoken , pronounced and understood .

[@britainonfilm]

Thank you very much!

[@philipsmith7913]

The landlord of The Fleece in the video was my great grandfather James Ollerenshaw.He was an officer in the Indian army. Bread in France Lynch ( a Hugeonot outpost like Petty France on the A46) was delivered by the bread donkey .

[@barrydougan4859]

What sort of date would that be?

[@philipsmith7913]

@@barrydougan4859 Early 1900s. Grandfather born 1901, lived there until WW1 at least

[@tubecated_development]

I had bread and lard with salt and pepper. It was a treat.

[@pennylane9730]

Cotswolds What a beautiful place to live in ❤❤❤

[@rob213chappel]

Nice to see these snapshots of our history.

[@borderlord]

My Great Grandfather Joseph Matthews was born to an Agricultural Labourer in Cricklade Wiltshire in the mid 1800's and went on to be a horse trainer around Stroud ,Gloucestershire.,where my Granfather and his siblings,grew up. My mother was born in London in 1938 and spent the war and some years after in the Marist Convent in the village of Nympsfield,Gloucestershire. A Beautiful area.

[@The58stupot]

Beautiful indeed. The Cotwswold Edge .

[@burntreynolds1068]

Just to think, their peasant cottages are worth a cool million in Current Year.

[@Stripeyperch]

A gallon of bread and half a dozen milk sounds great.

[@vercingetorixwulf9298]

Those working hours will return. But, less food .......

[@reynardbizzar5461]

Chipping Norton at 2.08😂

[@markhenry192]

How strange!