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Holst Victorian House celebrates 50 years as a museum

Celebrations include a special exhibition and the chance to adopt the piano on which Gustav Holst composed The Planets. The Cheltenham birthplace of composer Gustav Holst is celebrating 50 years as a museum with a special exhibition and a golden anniversary appeal to help safeguard its future. Since…

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WWI Battlefield Crosses Museum website revealed

Cheltenham’s unique WWI Battlefield Crosses Museum – home to the surviving wooden grave-marker crosses of Cheltenham soldiers who fell on the battlefields of France and Belgium during the Great War – now has its own website thanks to sponsorship by the local funeral service, Mason & Stokes. The new…

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Holst Victorian House launches new digital guide

The Holst Victorian House is dedicated to celebrating the composer Gustav Holst, who was born in Cheltenham in 1874, and providing visitors with an immersive experience of 1870s Victorian Cheltenham during the period when his family lived in the house. The team at the Holst Victorian House is…

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