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  
  December 2011

Dursley's new hospital takes its first patients.
Rapid progress on the Cam Parish Council offices.
Toll house progress.

 
  November 2011

Construction of the Vale Community Hospital is completed.
Timber framing goes up for the Cam Parish Council offices.
Late night Christmas shopping in Dursley.
Renovation begins on the old toll house building.

 
  October 2011

Vale Community Hospital progress.
Cam Parish Council offices in Chapel Street.
Reid's restaurant painted to be ready for opening.

 
  September 2011

New mosaic at St James' Church.
Sunrise over Cam Peak.
Cam Methodist Church.

 
  August 2011

Progress on the new Community Hospital developments.
Broadwell House repair work.
Jacob's House external decoration.

 
  July 2011

Dursley Festival events.
Fire Station open day.
Signs go up for a proposed new Italian restaurant.

 
  June 2011

Roundabout trial in Dursley town centre.
Vale Community Hospital developments.
Golden Wall reconstruction.

 
  May 2011

Dursley C of E Primary School Summer Fair.
Community hospital progress.
New shop opens on Silver Street.
Pavement outside 'Eden Stone' houses on May Lane reopens.

 
  April 2011

King's Head Royal Wedding street party.
Community hospital developments.
May Lane houses pavement construction.

 
  March 2011

The old Coop store refurbishment completion.
Community hospital progress.
May Lane houses construction progress.

 
  February 2011

New pavements near the Priory.
Community hospital progress.
May Lane houses developments.

 
  January 2011

Long Street resurfacing.
Community hospital developments.
Littlecombe site landscaping.

 
  December 2010

Widespread snow in Dursley.
Heritage Centre Severn Railway Bridge exhibition closes.

 
  November 2010

Developments at Littlecombe.
Progress on the new houses in May Lane.
Changes at the old Coop in Parsonage Street.
Remembrance Sunday march.
First snow of the year.

 
  October 2010

More progress on Dursley's new hospital.
Fire in the Broadwell.

 
  September 2010

Progress on Dursley's new community hospital.
Rednock view.

 
  August 2010

The framework of Dursley's hospital begins to go up.
New houses at Littlecombe.
Rednock car park is finished.

 
  July 2010

Works starts on the new community hospital at Littlecombe.
The new Iceland store together with three smaller shops open.
Dursley Town Festival.

 
  June 2010

Re-paving around the Market House nears completion.
Resurfacing of the swimming pool car park.
Continuing progress on the new Iceland store.

 
  May 2010

Re-paving around the Market House progress.
Rednock School garden area.
Work on the new Iceland store begins.

 
  April 2010

Re-paving around the Market House begins.
Official opening of Rednock School.
Refurbishment of some of Dursley's shops.

 
  March 2010

Sainsbury's store opens.
R.P. Jones shop closes.
Rednock landscaping progress.

 
  February 2010

More snow in the town.
Sainsbury's store developments.

 
  January 2010

Heavy snow in Dursley.
Sainsbury's store progress.
St. James' Church renovation work.
Littlecombe developments.

 
  December 2009

Sainsbury's store construction progress.
Wintry scenes.

 
  November 2009

LIDL store is completed and opened.
Sainsbury's framework completed.
Rednock/Community Centre car park nears completion.
Bonfire on the recreation ground.

 
  October 2009

Captain Graham commemoration event.
Rednock School landscaping progress.
Sainsbury's framework starts to go up.

 
  September 2009

Lister Shearing centenary.
New Rednock School open and demolition of old buildings under way.
LIDL supermarket progress.
Sainsbury's construction update.

 
  August 2009

Rednock School is prepared for opening.
LIDL supermarket progress.
Wild Goose garage makeover.
Sainsbury's construction progress.

 
  July 2009

Dursley Town Festival.
Relaunch of the sculpture trail in Twinberrow Woods.
Sainsbury's development restarts.
Littlecombe housing construction.

 
  June 2009

Open Day at Dursley's new fire station.
Somerfield closes down.

 
  May 2009

Sainsbury's development temporarily halts.
Rednock progress.
Crest-Nicholson development complete (almost).

 
  April 2009

Official opening day for the new fire station.
Demolition of the old fire station.
Progress on the new houses in May Lane.

 
  March 2009

Clearance of the Victoria (Council) School site.
Work restarts on the new houses in May Lane.
The fire engines move to their new home on Kingshill Road.
Progress at Rednock School.

 
  February 2009

Demolition of the Victoria (Council) School.
Heavy snow in the town.
New houses at Woodmancote.

 
  January 2009

Rednock School progress.
Fire station developments.
Demolition of the Youth Club.
Removal of the Victoria Day School plaques.
Snow in Dursley.

 
  December 2008

Rednock School turns bright orange.
Sainsbury's construction site preparation.
Fire station doors in place.
Draycott garage redevelopment.

 
  November 2008

New houses on the workhouse site.
Rednock path upgrade.
New flats in Long Street.
Fire station brickwork construction.
May Lane development.

 
  October 2008

Union Street changes.
New fire station construction.
Rednock developments.
Refurbishment of Draycott garage.

 
  September 2008

Changes on the Crest-Nicholson estate.
New fire station construction.
Rednock developments.

 
  August 2008

Rednock school progress.
New fire station construction.

 
  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.
Kingshill 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's 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.

 
 

December 2004

Fire at the Bymacks site.