FOREST OF DEAN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

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Experience the
Bicslade Tramroad Trail!




The area around Bicslade is an ideal location in which to see many aspects of the modern working forest complementing the varied ecological benefits provided by this ancient working landscape. Along the way you will see a working freemine, a monument to a mining disaster at the pithead of an old mine, working quarries,
and old drift mines.



Experience the
Tramroad Trail here...


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


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Programme of Events for 2013

The Forest of Dean Local History Society is pleased to present a varied and stimulating Programme of Events for 2013


Download your copy
of the programme here....




More Events for your Diary

Saturday 22nd June 2013
All day history event
"People in the Forest of Dean"
(includes Norman re-enactment)
Lydney Youth & Community Centre
Naas Lane, Lydney

Friday 2nd August 2013
"Sudbrook Summer Stroll"
Meet at 7pm
at the Sudbrook Pumping Station
(If you are planning to come to this event please email confirmation to our General Secretary, Cheryl Mayo)

Saturday 14th September 2013
12'00pm - 17'30pm
Woodside Primary School
Old Scholars Association
School Heritage Open Day
(over 500 photos on display)


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



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.

 




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
*
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

FODLHS Newsletter
April 2013



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


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
 

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!

 

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 -27 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............................




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!


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, Ian Standing, 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

 

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......

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