In 2004, we started researching the history of our house in Gloucester Road following an approach by a member of Thornbury Museum in South Gloucestershire. This resulted in us joining the Thornbury Museum Research Group that meets the first Thursday of each month at United Reformed Church in Chapel Street. We soon found out a lot of information about our house and the adjoining houses. We realised that the information could be of interest to people researching the history of families who might have lived in the houses. In 2005 we developed our first website dealing just with the ‘History of Laburnum Terrace’. By 2006 we had collected an extensive amount of information about other areas of Thornbury and we created a website called Thornbury Roots.

We are grateful to the other members of Thornbury Museum Research Group and all the other people who have contributed material and photographs to this site. We are very grateful to many people for allowing us to use their photographs, particularly to Meg Wise of Thornbury Museum and Nigel Pitcher. We are especially indebted to Jack Pridham, one of our earliest supporters and a great friend who is sadly no longer with us,

We always welcome new information and photographs!

Contact ourselves or Thornbury & District Museum if you want to use our photos for any other reason. The Thornbury Museum has a very large collections of old photos and it might be worth your while to visit the Museum to see their collection or to email them if you have any particular interest.

We are always happy to give any help we can, although our particular expertise is the town of Thornbury itself. Please email us on thornbury.roots@virginmedia.com. We will get back to you as quickly as we can. We are even happy to show people round our little town when they visit the area.