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
