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Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 25 July 1908
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An Edwardian wedding with some extremely large hats
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 6 August 1910
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The stylish trappings of a military wedding in 1911
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 7 October 1911
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Sailor suits and other pre-WWI wedding essentials: look out for changes in style as we enter wartime
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 21 June 1913
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A grand wedding of one of Pittville’s grandest families, the Winterbothams
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 July 1913
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Floral displays everywhere, at another typical pre-WWI wedding
(watch out for a repeat of the newspaper caption later...)
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 July 1913
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Just on the eve of war, with smaller hats already in evidence
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 1 August 1914
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A wartime wedding, and time for shorter skirts, and smaller hats, and uniforms
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 20 February 1915
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This time round, a more restrained wartime Winterbotham wedding
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 20 February 1915
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Smiles amidst the gloom as Armistice Day approaches, at the wedding of Nancy Lewis Grist of Wellington Square
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 2 November 1918
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And a distinct change of style after the war, with skirt lengths still rising and some very strange headgear
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 3 May 1919
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One of the Chronicle's first 1920s wedding snaps
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 February 1921
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Cloche hats vied with top hats at the Littledale wedding in 1925 (mother and sister of the bride)
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 2 May 1925
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A typical 1920s society wedding for Elsie Grant
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 13 June 1925
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Short skirts and lounge suits are the order of the day at Phyllis Compton's 1926 wedding
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 17 April 1926
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And cloche hats galore at Marjorie Silk's flapper wedding
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 16 June 1926
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Yet another 'interesting' wedding, as the paper has learnt to call them
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 19 January 1929
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Margaret Davies's 'interesting' wedding in 1929
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 27 July 1929
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Top hat, tails, and spats for Elsbeth Grist's bridegroom in 1929
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 3 August 1929
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A 1930s wedding
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 1 November 1930
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Cloche hats were still all the rage for Marjorie Webb's wedding in 1931
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 9 May 1931
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The newspaper caption almost seems to write itself for Gwendoline Bayston's wedding in 1932
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 November 1932
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During the 1930s longer dresses came back into fashion again, as at Joyce Bailey's wedding in 1933.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 16 September 1933
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Kathleen Benfield's wedding in 1933.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 11 November 1933
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This 1934 wedding (Florence Smith) was a restrained affair compared to some of the elaborate pre-war weddings.
But they all seem happy enough.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 13 January 1934
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A smart wedding from 1938.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 10 December 1938
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War has just started.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 21 October 1939
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Another wedding from the early months of the Second World War
– the bride in a simple outfit and the groom in uniform with a military guard of honour.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 18 November 1939
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A wedding from 1941 with the groom and best man in RAF uniform and the bride in a simple dress.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 April 1941
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A wartime wedding of two neighbours from Pittville Circus Road.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 26 April 1941
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Another simple wartime wedding for two Pittville residents.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 26 April 1941
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