FOREST OF DEAN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

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Experience the
Bicslade Tramroad Trail!




Experience the
Tramroad Trail here...


Buy the accompanying Bicslade Tramroad Trail leaflet here....



As reviewed in the July 2011 edition of the BBC 'Who Do You Think You Are Magazine




ROLL OF HONOUR CD

Now available at the special price of £10.00!

The CD forms part of the Miners Memorial Project and contains records of fatal accidents which occurred in Forest of Dean Mines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  It also includes records of Free Miners and Free Quarrymen who registered prior to 1960.

Fatalities

There are almost six hundred fatalities listed, dating from as early as 1797.

More than 100 coal mines, 14 iron mines and 12 quarries where accidents occurred are indexed. Each has its own page, containing accident details, photographs, and a brief history of the mine or quarry.

Free Miners Listings

The CD lists over 4000 names of registered free miners.  However to comply with the Data Protection Act, only applications to be Free Miners from 1838 – 1959 are included on this CD.

Free Quarrymen Listings

 

The Free Quarrymen listed number just over three hundred.

 

Order CD......

Further details of the CD here..............



Visiting The Forest of Dean?

See the Miners Memorial
& the Geomap
at the New Fancy




Download the Geomap site leaflet

Download the Geomap description leaflet
 


The Laura Morse Scrapbook


Laura Morse composed a scrapbook of all the local young men, who were killed in the Great War of 1914 - 1918 by collecting the obituaries from the local paper the "Forest Mercury".

The History Society has reproduced the Scrapbook in CD format.


Click here for more information!





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New Regard Index!


Thanks to member Gill Claydon, a revised index to volumes 1 to 26 of our journal 'The New Regard' is now available to download.

Click here for the Index....




PHOTOS FOR
A NEW CENTURY

NEW EDITION!!


A snapshot of the Dean’s historic sites and monuments in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Year!!

The original photographs in this collection were taken as part of the Gloucestershire 2000 Photographic Archive project.  The society decided to photograph 'sites and monuments' which had some historic interest so that a record would exist of their nature and condition in the year 2000. 

Produced by Ron Beard, The New Edition includes the 100 original sites, 44 additional sites from the 2000 exercise and 7 completely new sites.  The 144 sites that were photographed for the year 2000 have all been re-photographed to record any changes that have occurred over the last ten years.  Improvements in technology have enabled larger images to be shown and we have also been able to include more than one photograph of several of the sites. 


 and now available to you!


Click here for more information!



Calling All Authors!!

Articles required for the next edition of the New Regard!

If you are writing an article currently, or have an idea for an article which might be suitable for our publication, then our Editor, Cherry Lewis, would be delighted to hear from you!

To help you along click here for a document which describes how we prefer the format of articles we publish

Also click here to download an article which demonstrates the format standards


In celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee, we have a special project underway, so if you have memories of how the Queen's Coronation was celebrated in the Forest area, then we would like to hear from you.....

To learn much more about our 'Personal Memories of the Coronation' project, click here...

 



History Society
Programme for 2012




Download your copy here!



Republished!
The Mine Trail Walks


Three walks of approximately 5 miles each, exploring the sites and remains of the Forest mining history.
Available at only 50p each

More details here......




The Forest of Dean Local History Society Presents
"The Unique Forest of Dean"



An all day event (including lunch) at the Speech House Hotel on Wednesday 23rd May
********
Includes 4 excellent talks, and two local site visits

Download full details of the
History Day here....


Download a booking form here.....
   





Introducing the latest edition of our journal
New Regard Number 26!

 
Price held!

 Click here to discover the contents of issue 26


FODLHS Newsletter
April 2012


Features in the latest Newsletter include:

Hidden History
Coffins at Lydney Docks
-
Plaques & Monuments
'Herbert Howells'
-
Meetings in Review
-
John Typper - Cavalier Soldier
of the Civil War
-
Northern United - an update
-
Research Tips
'Where Are Your Title Deeds'
-
Book Review


Our members get their copy by post. Why not join the Society and get your regular copy?

You can download a copy of the previous  newsletter
(January 2012) here


 

Resources for Researchers



Interested in researching a subject, but not sure how to start??
Download our guide here......

See the complete index for volumes 1 -26 of our journal (The New Regard)

Click here to download..........

Request reprints from 'The New Regard'
Click here ................................

Learn more about our own library and index lists...
Click here..................................

Download an index for the Jack Bell Collection (housed at Lydney Library)
Click here............................



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