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The iconic landmark next to Stroud railway station, Hill Paul, was saved from destruction by concerned residents twenty years ago this month.
Bulldozers arrived at the site on January 2, 2001 to reduce the building to rubble, but a last-minute deal between the Hill Paul Regeneration Group and Hill Paul’s owners, Harper Homes, stopped them in their tracks. The group, made up of concerned residents, had banded together to form a company determined to purchase the building, and on January 8, they signed an agreement to put a £65,000 deposit on Hill Paul. Negotiations with Harper Homes almost fell through until an intervention by town mayor John Marjoram, now a Stroud District Councillor