Published by History Press. 
Price 12.99.
A reprint of the 2001 edition. Available from all good booksellers.
These personal memories give a unique and fascinating insight into the lives of the people who lived in and around the Gloucestershire market t town neighbours of Fairford and Lechlade.
by Chris Hobson (FHS Monograph No 6)
Published by Fairford History Society, 2010
Price £3.00
This monograph tells about the life of Alexander Ready, a prominent lawyer of Fairford, and how he came to change his name to Colston. Continue reading “Aleaxander Ready, Alexander Colston – the man with two names”
by Chris Hobson (FHS Occasional Paper No 6)
Click here to download OP6 Searching for Thomas paper
Thomas Morton was a curate of Fairford for Francis William Rice (5th Baron Dynevor) for almost three decades from 1851 to 1879. This paper traces the life of Thomas using a number of information research tools as an illustration of the wide variety of family and local history resources that are now available to the researcher. Continue reading “OP 6: Searching for Thomas”
by Chris Hobson (FHS Occasional Paper No 5)
Click here to download A Christmas Railway tragedy
On Christmas Eve in 1874 a mother and her two children caught the train from Fairford station for a festive holiday in the West Midlands. Sadly, they never completed their journey. This occasional paper tells the story of one of the most dreadful accidents in British railway history.
by Chris Hobson
(FHS Occasional Paper No 4)
Published by Fairford History Society, 2009
Price 50p Click here to Download the Paper
A short biography of Mr Richard Green, one of Fairford Free School’s earliest masters and a highly respected citizen who is still commemorated on the old school building today.
The collected photographs & reminiscences of the former residents of the Polish Hostel in Fairford by Alicja Swiatek Christofides, 2010
Out of print. A pdf copy is available at
https://kresy-siberia.org/hom/files/Fairford-Book.pdf
This well-illustrated 76- page book is an expansion of the booklet written for the unveiling of the commemorative plaque at the site of the Fairford Polish Hostel in May 2009. So many people made contact with the author and supplied photographs and information that the author felt that these memories should be compiled together to make an extensive record and that this important part of our local history should not be lost for ever.
by Chris Hobson (FHS Monograph No 5)
Published by Fairford History Society, 2009
Price £3.00
Revised edition by June Lewis-Jones.2009. Price £14.99 Available from booksellers
June has updated the previous edition of her book with more pictures and information and a whole new chapter about the Polish Hostels that was not included before. Continue reading “The Cotswolds at War”
by Chris Hobson
(FHS Monograph No 4)
Published by Fairford History Society, 2008
Price £3.00
William Oldisworth was Fairford’s Justice of the Peace in the late 17th Century Continue reading “The Oldisworths of Fairford”
by Chris Hobson
(FHS Monograph No 3)
Published by Fairford History Society, 2007
Price 5.00 Continue reading “The Raymond Barkers of Fairford Park”
