Dursley News and Developments
 

This is not an authoritative news section by any means - it's intended solely as a medium for sharing any developments which relate to the town's buildings or industries as well as any noteworthy events. My intention is to update it monthly as a minimum.

 
  Date Change  
  July 2008

Dursley Town Festival.
Rednock school construction.
Fire Station framework in place.

 
  June 2008

Rednock school construction.
Fire Station foundations underway.

 
  May 2008

Rednock school construction.
New houses on the old workhouse site.
Pedersen Close is named on the old Bymacks site.

 
  April 2008

Rednock school construction.
"Rivers Mill" houses on Uley Road.
New fire station site.

 
  March 2008

Rednock school construction.
"Cotswold Gate" houses in May Lane.
Rack field tree clearance.

 
  February 2008

Rednock school construction.
Crest-Nicholson site.
Dursley Dozen race.
Construction work in May Lane.
Rack field tree clearance.

 
  January 2008

Rednock school excavations.
May Lane building work.
Water Street old swimming pool building reconstruction.
Kingshilll Inn fenced-in patio area.

 
  December 2007

Rednock school demolition progress.
May Lane building developments.
Stefan Nawrot visits the Heritage Centre.

 
  November 2007

Rednock school, new build kicks off.
May Lane building developments.
British Legion in Parsonage Street.

 
  October 2007

Newland Meadows developments.
Littlecombe site industrial units.
Progress on reconstruction of the old swimming pool building.

 
  September 2007

R.A. Lister exhibition in town.
Clearance work behind the May Lane Coop (Warehouse).
Progress on reconstruction of the old swimming pool building.
Old storage tank uncovered at the gasworks site.
New houses in Union Street.
New hairdressers' shop opens in Uley Road.
Construction of houses at Riversmill, Uley Road.

 
  August 2007

Refurbishment of the old swimming pool building.
Demolition of the part of the May Lane Coop (Warehouse).
New building on the Littlecombe site.

 
  July 2007

Floods in Dursley.
Dursley Town Festival events.
Refurbishment of the old swimming pool building.

 
  June 2007

Refurbishment of the Long Street chip shop.
Bymacks/Crest-Nicholson developments.

 
  May 2007

Scaffolding come down from St. James' Church.
Bymacks and Newland Meadows construction progress.
Whiteway Hill tree clearance.
Littlecombe site landscaping.

 
  April 2007

Steam at Cam & Dursley station.
Excavations on the Mawdsley site.
Bymacks site progress.

 
  March 2007

Developments at the old Bymacks, Mawdsley's and Lister sites.

 
  February 2007

Snow falls in Dursley.
Dursley Dozen race.
Scaffolding goes up on St. James' Church.

 
  January 2007

Removal of the trees at the bottom of Long Street.
Bymacks site progress.
Boulton Lane School site clearance.
Inside the old Tabernacle graveyard.

 
  December 2006

Chestal Court developments.
Rope Walk houses on the Bymacks site.
Expansion of the Treetops nursery.
New shops in the town centre.

 
  November 2006

Bristol House gets renovated.
Developments on the Crest-Nicholson (Bymacks) site.
Chestal Court construction.
Helicopter lands at Dursley C of E Primary School.
Old R.A. Lister sign uncovered at Littlecombe.

 
  October 2006

Further progress on the Crest-Nicholson (Bymacks) site.

 
  September 2006

Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Dursley railway.
Bymacks and Lister site developments.
Reopening of the "Warehouse" nightclub.
New Yellow Hundred housing development begins.
Closure of Silver Street.

 
  August 2006

Return of the Cloak of the Bailiff of Dursley.

 
  July 2006

Dursley Town Festival week.
Bennett Jones shop move.
Bymacks site progress.

 
  June 2006

Parish Arts week, Morris dancing.
Lister apprentice reunion at the Lister Hall.
Bymacks site developments.

 
  May 2006

School photo exhibition at the Heritage Centre.
Bymacks site progress.

 
  April 2006

Footpath through the Bymacks building site reopens.
Littlecombe site progress and Kingshill Lane closure.
BBC Radio Gloucestershire "Big Red Bus" in town.
Hornby railtour stops at Cam & Dursley station.

 
  March 2006

Further progress on the Bymacks housing development.
Littlecombe site clearance.
Closure of the 'Starshine' shop in Parsonage Street.

 
  February 2006

Opening of Dursley's new library.
Dursley Dozen race.
Pancake Race.
Progress on the new Uley Road junction.
Closure of Cam High Street.

 
  January 2006

Fire in Water Street.
Progress on the new library.
Repairs to the Golden Wall in Kingshill Road.

 
  December 2005

Dursley Male Voice Choir.
Progress on the new library.
Further Crest-Nicholson progress on the Bymacks site.

 
  November 2005

Progress on the new library.
Developments on the Bymacks site.

 
  October 2005

Pedersen celebration day.
Cam Co-op changes.

 
  September 2005

Developments on the Bymacks site.
Kwiksave changes to Somerfield.

 
  August 2005

Further progress on the library construction.

 
  July 2005

Dursley Festival week.
Further Crest-Nicholson progress on the Bymacks site.
Library construction continues.

 
  June 2005

Bymacks site clearance is essentially finished.
Library framework nearly complete.

 
  May 2005

Progress on the clearance of the old Bymacks site.
Library construction progress.

 
  April 2005

Opening of Rednock School's new music block.
Continuing work on the new library.

 
  March 2005

Clearance of the Bymacks site.
Construction of the new library begins.

 
  February 2005

Demolition of the library begins.
Demolition of the Lister Victoria Works.

 
 

January 2005

Dursley Heritage Centre opens (Jan 15th).  
 

December 2004

Fire at the Bymacks site (Dec 18th).