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France Lynch books
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Gloucestershire Living Memories
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Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories
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Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
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Memories of France Lynch
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We stayed in a small caravan on Ridings Farm, owned then by Mr & Mrs Rand. We travelled by coach from Gosport, Hampshire. Catherine Hackett, my mother,adopted me when I was less than a year old, she was widowed and had 4 children of her own and as you can guess she was very special. Gosport is a naval... [more]
Shared on 09 September 2007
Gloucestershire memories
I was born in Chalford at "The Little House" in Chalford Hill in 1932 and lived there until March 1940. I was the youngest of six children who all lived in the cottage and have very lovely memories of both the cottage and the local school which I attended. My Mother was a local girl who was a clerk in the... [more]
Shared on 14 December 2007
My Grandmother was born in The Round House, Chalford in 1901.
Shared on 16 October 2008
Hi I am Derek Hyde. I with my sister arrived in Eastcombe late afternoon on the day war was declared, Sept 3d 1939. We had been evacuated from Birmingam, we were to live with our grandparents for the duration of the war, we were the lucky ones to be with them, many others who came later did not know who they... [more]
Shared on 18 June 2008
Thoughts of Bisley Rodborough Chalford and more.
1794 The year my direct ancestor was born in Bisley. It was not until I found my connection with him that I discovered that my roots started there. Abraham Davis for that was his name, was born, lived, married and came to a untimely end in the Bisley area. His death occurred on the 29th September 1851 when he accidentally fell... [more]
Shared on 21 August 2008
The Potters' Cottage on the hilltop
I knew Fred Potter and his family in the early 1960s - Fred and I dated for a while. Many times we got off the bus on the main road (I lived in Nailsworth), often straight from school - he at Marling, me at High School. We'd then walk past the lake and up that hill - seemed no distance in... [more]
Shared on 23 August 2009
Having moved into Walls Quarry with my husband in 1961, I too remember the snow. It started to fall on Boxing Day 1962. We had a job to get home from Gloucester by car during theafternoon.
By March '63 it was still thick and frozen hard. The postmen had difficulty doing hillside deliveries out from Brimscombe Post Office. Three of... [more]
Shared on 30 May 2008
I first knew Brimscombe in the 1950s. I was brought up between Toadsmoor and Middle Lypiatt. In this starkly isolated location, it took a devoted beer drinker to travel through the darkness to the nearest pub. My Dad was of such a breed, and every evening he would go to the Bottle and Jug of the Port Inn in Brimscombe, more... [more]
Shared on 27 November 2007
Extracts From France Lynch & Gloucestershire books
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Sidney B Park was a successful businessman; in Edwardian days he owned two drapery shops in Stroud. However, on 26 October 1917 his only son, Herbert, was killed in France, and in 1927 the Park family gave land to create a public garden in his memory. Sidney and his wife, Ellen, are buried in Stroud Cemetery.
This is an extract from Stroud Photographic Memories.
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When this picture was taken, the canal had only recently undergone a restoration programme. Of the two pubs shown here, The New Red Lion (centre) survives. The Bell Inn (left) is now a private house. The retaining wall on the right was part of Chalford Station yard. The careful posing of the children adds considerably to the appeal of the photograph.
This is an extract from Stroud Photographic Memories.
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Here we are looking down the High Street, with Smith's chemist's shop – still at this period with only one large window – on the right. Below it is Withey's grocery store, long-established even in 1910. When the building changed hands a few years ago, a large number of early grocery orders was discovered in an attic.
This is an extract from Stroud Photographic Memories.
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