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Experience the
Bicslade Tramroad Trail!
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NEXT EVENT
Sunday 19th May 2013
2pm
at
Lime Tree Plaque, Parkend
Cecile Hunt
leads
"A Walk Around Parkend"
Parkend is a village,
located at the foot of the Cannop Valley, in the
Forest of Dean. It has a history dating back to
the early 17th century. During the 19th century
it was a busy industrial village with several
coal mines, an ironworks, stoneworks,
timber-yard and a tinplate works, but by the
early 20th century most had succumbed to a loss
of markets and the general industrial decline.
Non members may attend at this
event
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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!
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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.
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Introducing the
latest edition of our journal
New Regard Number
27!
Price held!
Featured articles
The Forest of Dean: Differing perspectives on
its ownership, purpose & use
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Lord McNair's nightmare: the Forestry Bill of
1981
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Flora Klickmann and 'The Flower Patch'
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Henry Cook and his wild garden
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West Gloucestershire corn mills
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The development of Horlick Malted Milk and
Infant Food
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FW Harvey at the BBC
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Pageants, prayers and pins: how Foresters
celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
in 1953
Find out more about
the latest issue of the New Regard
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FODLHS
Newsletter
April 2013 |
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Features in
the latest Newsletter include:
Chair's Report
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New Society Projects
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Meetings in Review
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Forthcoming Events
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Radical History Workshop Review
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Book Review - 'Henry of Monmouth'
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History Event - 22nd June
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Plaques & Monuments - Memorials
connected with Horatio Nelson
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 2013) here
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PHOTOS FOR
A NEW CENTURY
NEW EDITION!!
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.
Click here for
more information!
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Resources for
Researchers
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The Laura Morse
Scrapbook
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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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Republished!
The Mine Trail Walks
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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......
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