Experience the
Bicslade Tramroad Trail!
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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.
Order CD......
Further details of the CD
here..............
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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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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....
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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!
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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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FODLHS
Newsletter
April 2012 |
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Features in
the latest Newsletter include:
Hidden History
Coffins at Lydney Docks
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Plaques & Monuments
'Herbert Howells'
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Meetings in Review
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John Typper - Cavalier Soldier
of the Civil War
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Northern United - an update
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Research Tips
'Where Are Your Title Deeds'
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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 |
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Resources for
Researchers
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