May saw continuing progress on the various ongoing schemes arround the town. The old Bymacks site is now almost totally cleared with most of the buildings reduced to piles of rubble. Work is also advanced at the top end of the site where a new road will form a junction with Uley Road. Old walls have been demolished and the scrub cleared away, allowing open views across the valley bottom toward the Priory and the Towers.

In May Lane, construction of the library also advances, the foundations have been completed and the first of the steel framework girders arrived ready for assembly to begin. It won't be long before the distinctive shape starts to appear.