Police activity at the Hub!

If you read the article in our last newsletter about the Death Penny you may be interested to know that someone in Canada read the plea on the website to track down the grandson and granddaughter of Alfred James Barnard and contacted someone in France who then contacted Barnard’s great grandson who told his mother that we were looking for her! She contacted us and we put her in touch with the family who have the Death Penny.

The talk season is upon us and we are nearly fully booked for this year and have several bookings already for next year.

We have bookings for Royal British Legion events, WIs, Probus, Local History Associations, National Association of Retired Police Officers and various events linked to employers open days this is on top of the items we provide the constabulary for Police Memorial Day, Remembrance Day and other events as well as the support we give at the Heritage Hub

With VE Day nearly here we have been doing a lot of work linked to WW2 and while going through The Special magazine one of our volunteers found a poem from two Auxiliary police women and a reply from the regulars which is very of its time: 

                         

Lots of people have been tidying out their attics and have been donating documents and photographs to us.  If you have any police related photographs we are always happy to receive Jpegs via gloucestershirepolicearchives@gmail.com.

Queries can also be sent to the same email address. We are also able to scan photographs in our office at the Heritage Hub which is usually open Monday to Wednesday until 2.30 but it is worth checking before you make a visit as we do go out and about quite often.