The SEPIA photograph was taken around 1910 and shows a familiar part of Stroud, looking so unfamiliar without the Four Clocks, which only came a decade later.
The site of the clock tower is marked by a pair of gas lamps giving access to a gentlemen’s underground toilet, still believed to exist today, though clearly not useable.
The nearby horse trough was intended mainly for the animals which pulled the horse-buses departing for Chalford from outside what is now Bateman’s.
The building on the left was the Empire Cinema, later replaced by what older residents remember as the Gaumont – now a nightclub.
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