Stroudie Central Bookshop

The Stroudie Central bookshop has a number of books related to Stroud and its five valleys. I receive a small (really small) sales commission on any sales.

This in turn helps me support the local coffee shops.

Book prices are as of May 2024. Hardback, paperback and Kindle copies are different prices. The Buy Now button takes you to the appropriate Amazon page.

In view of the the way the USA is going down the toilet with the Trump administration I suggest you support your local bookshop rather than Amazon. Locally there’s a book shop in Nailsworth and up the high street in Stroud opposite the shambles. There’s also a couple of good second hand book shops in Stroud.

The Gloucestershire Woollen Mills by Jennifer Tann

An old book but it has lots of information on all the local mills.

£14.13 – Used prices are probably less.

Wool and Water – Jennifer Tann

I have a copy of this and it has everything you need to know about the old mills in the area and how the cloth industry operated. Recommended reading.

gloucestershire woollen industry and its mills

£16.33

Some Drama..

Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel – The bestselling Victorian mystery series (Railway Detective): 18

£2.19

Artisan Stroud – Clare Honeyfield

£11.46

Stroud (illustrated) – Rupert Russell

£12.50

Stroud Short Stories

57 stories by the cream of local authors.

£12

Dulcima – Film on DVD / Blu-ray

Filmed around Minchinhampton, Avening and Tetbury with John Mills and Carol White. A great film set in the Stroud countryside.

£10.86

Stroud and the Five Valleys From Old Photographs

£15.99

James Smart of Chalford: Working Life on the Cotswolds Canals and Linked Waterways

£11.38

Stroud Valleys in the Great War

£12.93

Labour and the Poor Volume V: The Manufacturing Districts (5) (The Morning Chronicle’s Labour and the Poor)

Nothing to do with Stroud, but it looks like an interesting social insight into early manufacturing.

£17.99

Nailsworth and the Stroud Branch

This is a really good book about the Nailsworth to Stroud branch line. The books old and probably out of print but used copies are still available. The books full of interesting information and photos you won’t find anywhere else.

£9.98 (used)

Gloucester and Sharpness Canal – An Illustrated History

A good book, I have a copy. It’s full of information about the building of the Sharpness canal that connects the port at Sharpness to Gloucester docks.