In the Pdf files below you will find a week by week diary of wartime issues relating to the Cotswolds extracted (with permission) by Peter Grace from the back numbers of the “Standard”. Copyright restrictions apply. As the work entails transcribing 33 hand-written note books with text copied from the Microfilm reader at the Bingham Library this page may take some time to complete! The eventual aim is to record the complete text on to CD.
(01) Extracts from the Wilts and Glos Standard WGS Jan 1938 to Dec1938.pdf
(02) Extracts from the Wilts and Glos Standard WGS Jan 1939 to Dec1939.pdf
(03) Extracts from the Wilts and Glos Standard WGS Jan 1940 to June 1940.pdf
(04) Extracts from the Wilts and Glos Standard WGS July 1940 to Dec 1940.pdf