As part of this year’s Gloucester Folk Trail, which was online, we created a slideshow for various filler sections of the line up. These were made up of images supplied by a very talented, local photographer who goes by the name of ShadowedEyes on social media. They are beautiful photographs of Gloucester’s architecture and scenic areas that are the content of a project called ”Gloucester 500”.
Gloucester 500 is the pet project of @ShadowedEyes, a photography enthusiast based in the city. It began when the Covid-19 pandemic restricted our horizons to within walking distance from home and the discovery that what appeared to be a fairly nondescript post-war suburb had a history that stretched back to the late Bronze Age and that some of the old properties that have survived the tide of Gloucester’s urbanisation are listed by Historic England.
It turns out that Historic England lists nearly 500 sites in Gloucester, and the city enjoys a higher than average proportion of grade I and grade II* listings. Gloucester 500 is a long-term project to photograph all of them.
As well as superb photographs for you to enjoy, there is a blog and a narrative for each area of Gloucester in this project. Have a look on their website for more information and there’s a Facebook group for you to enjoy too
