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Forest Green, The Parrot Inn 1924
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More about this scene

The area is rather romantically referred to as smugglers' country; it is said to have been a kind of halfway house between the Sussex coast and London, where contraband could be safely hidden. As a folk song goes: 'It`s Champagne fine for communion wine and the parson drinks it too, With a sly wink prays 'forgive these men, for they know not what they do'.'

A Selection of Memories from Forest Green

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 Forest Green

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I moved to Forest Green when I was 2 but my whole family comes from the area. Christine Dendy (my maternal grandmother) was born in the village. Her parents were a housemaid and a gamekeeper/odd-job man for the Vaughan-Williams estate. My grandmother was born in the row of First World War council houses erected behind the village green and she married the son of a village shopkeeper from Ockley. Their ...see more