Cheltenham
What to see
You’ll find accounts of Cheltenham’s tourist attractions, plus information on shopping, eating out etc at Visit Cheltenham.
Links to local attractions include:
● Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway
● Holst Birthplace Museum
● Montpellier District
● Pittville Park
● The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “Twitchy after a period of unemployment, I was keeping an eye on birds in two bushes in the spring of 1976. The one that became a bird in the hand led me into a short engagement as a computer programmer. The other was along a recruitment trail that led to Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham.”
● “Frimley (and the building in which my working life began) features in a 1999 Phaidon publication called Boring Postcards. Cheltenham, by contrast, has Gardens, Parades, Terraces, a Promenade and a Royal Crescent.”
● “The Arts & Crafts floor [of the Wilson, Cheltenham’s art gallery and museum] is breath-taking – the woodwork especially. The Arts & Crafts movement is associated with the Cotswolds as a rural centre of production and because the country home of William Morris for a quarter of a century was Kelmscott Manor, near Lechlade.”
These are taken from the Cheltenham chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.