The Jellicoe Plan

The Jellicoe Plan was delivered in 1961, and was an attempt to envisage and accommodate the city's needs for at least the next 20 years. It is easy now to be horrified by its recommendations, which include four lanes of traffic down Brunswick Road as well as wholesale demolition of the area and obliteration of the Roman camp boundary to build a huge new Civic Centre. The shopping mall of Kings Square - Jellicoe compared its arcades to the Stoa of Attalos at Athens - was already set to replace a maze of streets, but the plan suggested a luxury hotel overlooking the fountains and underground car parking which was never realised.

The needs of pedestrians were highly regarded, and the Via Sacra laid out to aid their movement round the city.

The model Jellicoe made of the future for Gloucester is still in the City Museum, although the cathedral has mysteriously disappeared.