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.

Stroud News and Journal:

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.