Lydney, The Canal c.1960
Photo ref:
L200036
Photo ref:
L200036
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Lydney's minuscule canal is no more than a mile in length, with just a single lock. Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left. The trade declined in the 1970s.
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A Selection of Memories from Lydney
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Lydney
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I spent a lot of time in the early 60's waiting for red and white buses there , to take me home from school.
If I'm not mistaken this is a picture of Lydney secondary modern school , I attended there in 1962 until I was 13 .
Not a very happy time for me , I was a very nervous boy and didn't fit in very well. We moved later to Yate nr Bristol.
The standard of education I found out later was low and my new school put me into a lower stream.
The shop on the extreme left is Harris's Newsagency. Then J. Clifford Hughes the chemist, then The Wool Shop. The long shop (three shops really) is Williams & Cotton: bread & cakes with a very tempting shop window with cream buns, jammy doughnuts, petits fours etc. I forget what was in the second shop, but the third was a drapery. Then a laneway, behind which was a bakery (presumably belonging to W & C), ...see more
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