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  • Anyone know the Stroud area?

    My mum's family were evacuated to Thrupp, near Stroud, Glos, in WW2. Apparently her father/my grandfather worked in an aircraft factory on the London Road?

    Does anyone know what this was called and what plane they made please?

    We think it could be spitfires but could be wrong!

    Many thanks

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    Might have been Lancasters:
    Cotter, Jarrod. Living Lancasters: Keeping the Legend Alive. Thrupp, Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7509-4192-8.

    Or the Gloster Gladiator.

    Thrupp seems to have been known for the Phoenix Iron Foundry.

    Christine
    Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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    • #3
      Thanks Christine... I'll see if I can get hold of that book

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