Thornbury Roots

We are often asked why we are doing what we do.

In 2004, we started researching the history of our house in Gloucester Road following an approach by a member of Thornbury Museum.  This resulted in us joining the Thornbury Museum Research Group that meets the first Thursday of each month at United Reformed Church in Chapel Street.  We soon found out a lot of information about the house and adjoining houses.  We realised that the information could be of interest to people researching the history of families who might have lived in the houses.  In 2005 we developed out first website dealing just with the 'History of Laburnum Terrace'.  By 2006 we had collected an extensive amount of information about other areas of Thornbury and we created Thornbury Roots.

We are grateful to the other members of Thornbury Museum Research Group and all the other people who have contributed material and photographs to this site.  We are very grateful to many people for allowing us to use their photographs, particularly to Meg Wise of Thornbury Museum, Nigel Pitcher and Jack Pridham.  We always welcome new information and photographs!