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Gloucester & District

A talk on 'The History of Dowty' and an opportunity to examine archived documents at the Heritage Hub.

Event type: Meeting
Date: 23rd February 2027
Time: 10:30 am
Group: Local History
Venue: Heritage Hub

A vast quantity of Dowty documents are held at the Hub and funding was obtained to catalogue them. The talk will give a history of the Dowty Group which was a major aerospace and engineering manufacture founded in Gloucestershire by Sir George Dowty. There will be an opportunity to look at some of the documents and have a tour of the archives.

Note that the meeting will take place at the Heritage Hub, Alvin Street and not at the Guildhall cinema.