About the Site
Welcome to our site celebrating the life and work of Brian Torode, a man who was much loved, and is greatly missed, following his unexpected short illness and subsequent death in … Continue reading
Let’s have your memories!
Brian’s former friends and colleagues are invited to leave comments about their memories of him. If you wish to, please also email any photographs or video that we can include on … Continue reading
Eulogy
This is the text of the Eulogy given by Brian’s great friend, Richard Barton, at Brian’s funeral on Wednesday 19th March 2014 at Saint Stephen’s Church, Cheltenham: Banjour, (banzhoor) (Good Day) … Continue reading
Rowland Wyatt (1871-1958), builder of Kingswood
Samuel Wyatt, labourer of Sinwell, Wotton-under-Edge and Anne | Rowland Wyatt I, mason of Sinwell and Elizabeth Evans | Rowland Wyatt II, builder of Kingswood Rowland Wyatt, builder of Kingswood, … Continue reading
Arthur John and Anne Noad of Slimbridge and Gossington
NOAD FAMILY OF WEST KINGTON AND SLIMBRIDGE James Noad I (1717-1792) and Ann (1721-1801) of West Kington, Wilts | Isaac Noad (1762-1832) and Hester Buckle (1767-1829) Labourer and Pauper of … Continue reading
Remembering Cardinal Newman
Newman memorabilia – Sunday 13th October 2019 John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) and his links with Gloucestershire Notes written by Brian Torode and probably based upon a talk … Continue reading
Ancestors of Maria Barton, nee Ford, of Charleston, South Carolina
Ancestors of Maria Ford – sources collated by Richard Byrd Maria Ford, the eldest daughter of William and Sarah Ford of Tortworth, was baptised in the village church on 18th … Continue reading
St Saviour’s Church, Tetbury
Using St Saviour’s Back in May 2016 local newspapers reported serious vandalism at the redundant Church of St Saviour in New Church Street, Tetbury – pages were torn from the … Continue reading
Stroud Grammar School
Stroud Grammar School and Stroud Borough School (1871-1893c) As a pupil of Marling (1969-76), I became interested in in the school’s history when I was a teenager and I remember … Continue reading
Remembering Brian – Twenty-five years ago since his priestly ordination
Brian Torode was ordained to the Sacred Priesthood on 2nd October 1994 at Gloucester Cathedral Brian celebrated his First Mass at St Stephen’s Church, Cheltenham that evening … Continue reading
St John’s Roman Catholic Church, Bath – A photographic miscellany
Roman Catholic Church of St John the Evangelist, Bath St Alphege’s Church in Oldfield Park
The Story of the Christ rescued from the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in 1793
The Story of the Christ rescued from the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in 1793 By Richard Barton (2019) The medieval Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, to the north of Paris, was … Continue reading
James Nobbs, a great Anabaptist
James Nobbs, Senior and Junior, and their ‘Anabaptist’ or Baptist Community at Horton, Gloucestershire The Baptist Church in Chipping Sodbury has a very long history and we know that it … Continue reading
