When Stroud's buses were green (and even red)
StroudValleys.co.uk
Updates
We're phasing the development of this site. This page explains what's complete and yet to come
| Phase 1 | Holding page plus Blog (1 Jan 2008) | |
| Phase 1A | Addition of Thamesdown Transport page (17 Feb 2008) | |
| Phase 2 | Substantive front page and History, Memorabilia, Country DP, Book, and Links pages added and complete (13 Mar 2008) and Stroud RE Group 2008 running day added, plus Red Bus/Red & White page | |
| Phase 2A | The Stroud Valleys years (14 March 2008) | |
| Phase 2B | Decline & Fall of the Country Bus Service (20 March 2008) | |
| Phase 3 | Stroud RE Group pages uploaded (22 March 2008) and Where's That? | |
| Phase 3B | Entries to date at the Vintage Running Day June 2008 (20 May 2008) and front age animation | |
| Phase 4 | Vehicle details added (most types) | |
| Phase 5 | (March 2008 to coincide with "Stroud's Buses" presentation in Bristol) Major update to include completing the story since the final chapter of "Stroud's Buses", revised blog, a page on Cotswold Green, updated links and other more minor changes | |
| Phase 5A | Basic Running Day 2009 information added | |
| Phase 6 | Reformed to make navigation easier, by simplifying Index.html (September 2009) | |
| Web host provider ceases trading sometime during the autumn of 2009. Stroudvalleys.co.uk nevertheless remains live till January 2010, after which site disappears | ||
| At a little after midday, 16 May 2010 sees the site's restoration but only after a lengthy wait while the domain name runs out so that it can be re-purchased cheaply, to avoid costly Nominent fees. Upon the creation of a dedicated RE Group website, Stroudvalleys regrettably now longer holds information on and for the Stroud RE Group |
Previous iterations
This project was inspired by the Stroud RE Group's first two Stroud Running Days of 2000 and 2001. The initial site went live in 2001 shortly after the Running Day of that year, hosted cheaply and cheerfully by the now defunct Yahoo! Geocities, under the title 'Stroud Valleys - Bristols in Stroud'. As such, it was supported by Geocities advertising.
We registered the Stroudvalleys.co.uk domain name in March 2003 and the site went advert-free shortly thereafter.
The site lasted till May 2005 when, mainly through lack of updates, the owner took it down.
From January 2008, the site's reincarnation began to take shape, with substantial content added in March.