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Rodborough Fort and why I set up this web-site. |
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 I grew up in Rodborough on Butterrow West and spent many happy hours on The Common flying kites, playing cricket, enjoying wide games with Scouts and many other activities - indeed, I even proposed to my wife there.
For a while I have been collecting postcards of Rodborough Fort and I have finally got around to uploading all the photos onto the web. I would never had thought that so many different postcards had been produced depicting the Fort! To date I have well over 100 cards that include the fort, even if only on the skyline. I have also included other postcards of Rodborough but I have been a bit more selective in those that I have bought. I hope you enjoy looking through these photographs as much as I have enjoyed collecting them. If you would like to add further information or ask questions about any of the postcards please use either the comments form on the individual card page, the Guestbook link above or
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. Follow the link on the left to the Gallery.If you register as a member on this site it is possible to send e-cards of any of the postcards on the site and also to add comments about each postcard. Angus Townley
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Postcards of Rodborough Fort |
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The earliest picture postcards in the UK date from 1894 as it was not until 1st September of that year that the post office allowed postcards published by others to be posted. 
From 1895 onwards, a size of 4.75 ins x 3.5ins was adopted for postcards. These cards were known as Court Cards. The address was written on one side and the reverse had a small picture leaving sufficient space to write a message. 
In 1902 the post office changed the rules so that the picture could take up the whole of the front of the postcard. The message and the address both appeared on the back. The message on the left hand side and the address on the right. From around September 1902 publishers printed postcards with a line dividing the back. |
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History of Rodborough Fort |
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Rodborough Fort commands a prominent position on Rodborough Common overlooking Stroud. Although it is located amongst iron-age earthworks the Fort itself is not as old as many people think. Strictly it is an inhabited folly and has been known as Fort George and Rodborough Castle in addition to its more correct name of Rodborough Fort. Th original fort was built around 1764 by George Hawker (d. c. 1786). It passed through a number of prominent Stroud business men before being acquired by Alexander Holcombe in 1868 who rebuilt the original building on a grander scale. |
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