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Slad, Gloucestershire
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Historic maps of Slad and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Slad maps
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Slad books
Displaying 3 of 9 books about Slad and the local area. View all Slad books
Gloucestershire Living Memories
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Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories
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Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
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4 Slad photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Slad
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The first time I left Scotland was to visit my grandparents at the old house, Kay and Bill. I was excited, and after many trips we lived with them for a while. Papa always had a bag of pennies for us and Grandma introduced me to literature. At that time we shared a love for Cliff Richard. We moved to Rose... [more]
Shared on 17 March 2009
Gloucestershire memories
My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ.
Every morning she had to give him and the gardener a piece of leftover cake and a cup of tea. Ernie the gardener was 18 years old and very... [more]
Shared on 31 July 2006
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
My dad Roy Taylor was at a childrens' home. He never knew whether it was called Rodbrough or Roxborough House either. He would have been there in the 1950s. He often mentions The Black Boys School which was as it was known and was nearby. I will ask him what else he remembers.
Jayne Smith
Shared on 15 September 2009
The Harman family lived in "The Fields" on the Description of Emumeration District, listed on the 1851 census. "The Fields" was listed between Bowbridge Lane and the "Middle of Strouds Hill".
Shared on 08 March 2009
I was sent to a childrens' home in Stroud in 1955/6 and left in 1959 as my mother had TB of the lung and was in the nearby Standish Hospital. I have quite a few memories of this home - not all of them good!
I am not sure whether the home was called Rodborough or Roxborough house but it was... [more]
Shared on 02 January 2009
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
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
Extracts From Slad & Gloucestershire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Slad, inspired by Frith photos.
Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
The village of Slad sits in one of the loveliest valleys in Gloucestershire. Its most famous son was the author and poet Laurie Lee, who was born in Stroud in 1914 and moved to Slad when he was three, and recalled his childhood in Cider With Rosie. At the age of 19 Lee walked to London, then on to civil war-stricken... [more]
This is an extract from Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
Slad huddles round the road that runs from Stroud to Birdlip. When this photograph was taken, the village was an isolated rural community with most of its inhabitants engaged in agriculture. Then as now, an important meeting place for local people was The Woolpack Inn.
This is an extract from Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories.
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The L-shaped building in the foreground, with its blocked windows, was known as The Old House. Down the lane which passes behind it and leads to the right is the pond in which, in Cider with Rosie, the body of the unfortunate Miss Flynn was discovered floating. Steanbridge House, where Laurie Lee's Squire Jones lived, is approached by way of this lane.
This is an extract from Stroud Photographic Memories.
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