Owners of No. 18 Gloucester Road

Roy & Gill Hemmings

In August 1971 the house was bought by Roy Anthony Hemmings of 18 Wye Court, Thornbury.  The cost was £3900.  Roy and his wife, Gill, were a newly married couple from Fishponds in Bristol.  They had moved to Thornbury when Roy commenced work in the Work Study Section of the Engineer & Surveyor’s Department of Thornbury District Council.  Before buying number 18, they were living for a short period in a council flat at 18 Wye Court.

In 1973, Roy transferred to a similar job in Newtown, Powys.  They sold the house to Roy’s boss, Chris Doig.

After a few years in Newtown, Roy began studying for a theological degree at the University of Wales (Cardiff). When he graduated, the family moved to Rhyl in 1986 where Roy became a deacon, then a curate at St Anne’s. In 1990, he joined the Army as a chaplain, and served several years in Hong Kong and Germany, and then after returning to the UK, he served overseas for shorter periods, including spells in the Balkans.


 

This page was last updated: 23/03/2007