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Hallewell J.P., D.L., M.A., focused his interests of the extensive grounds, and changed the estate's name from Stratford House to Stratford Park - hosting the 1870 Gloucestershire Agricultural Show. The first Stroud Flower Show appears to have taken place the following year on Thursday 17 August 1871 and appears to have continued on an annual basis with the last being on 19 August 1875 Joseph Watts Hallewell died at Stratford Park on 24 February 1891 and was buried at Pitchcombe The Park was sold by the executors to
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and were there to protect the trees first. After a stand-off that lasted till dawn the police called off the operation on grounds of public safety. The following year the first 'traffic calming' scheme in
Gloucestershire was introduced without the need to harm any of the trees. In the following three years Gloucestershire County Council figures showed accident rates on the affected stretch of road had been halved. The trees remain to this day.
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to own the piece of land which had been recorded as part of Stroud since 1307. He sold it to a Stroud mercer called
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