Images of past to present day

Welcome to our image bank of past to present day.

We hope you enjoy the nostalgia over the past 119 years!

BATEMANS SPORTS 1893                     

Gloucester street, 1893

         In 1892 W.W.Bateman, a civil engineer and County road builder from Chesterfield married Iris Butcher in Stroud, and so started 119 years of Sports retailing. The first photograph shows W.W. Bateman outside the shop in Gloucester Street named in 1892, after his wife’s maiden name.

In 1893 the shop was renamed Batemans and was known as ‘Stroud and County Sports Depot’. There were only two other sports shops in the whole of Gloucestershire at that time. Just like the others Batemans sold cigarettes and tobacco.

KENDRICK STREET CORNER 1948 

   In 1934 the shop moved from Gloucester Street to its present position in the main square on the corner of Kendrick Street and George Street.

WINDOW DRESSING AS IT WAS

Window dressing in the 50′s

 A few sample windows of the past, they crammed it in!

BAT MAKING

Bat making in the warehouse