Remembering Rodborough - Bob Tiley - Remembering Rodborough - Bob Tiley

Summary of Bob Tiley interview

• Bob Tiley born 1943 – Castlemead

• First memories of RB – watching the speedway-football from a house in Frome Park Road – MOVED HERE May 1967 – remembers the barn fire tragedy

• Lots of involvement as a councillor and made lots of things happen here – campaign for the PO opp the Albert, knocked down just after he arrived – involved with Rev Awdry over Jubille celebrations 1977 and reviving the fete – campaign to save RB Fields – campaign for playing fields –campaign to reunify the parish after the Stroud urban RB rural split in 1936 – memories of the fort being used for Hungarian exiles and émigrés after the 56 uprising – faith has guided his community work – RB parish very big – needs involvement to keep it together