Forest of Dean Local History Society
This year we have a mixed content of papers and articles from several authors. As the list below shows, the range is considerable. It spans from the medieval origins of place-names to the occupation of St Briavels Castle in the 1940s. There are also personal descriptions and recollections of life in Lydbrook from the 1920s to the late 1950s.
Wartime reminiscences of St. Briavels Castle
The Lydbrook letters
I was a Brain until I married a Beard:
childhood memories of Lydbrook
The Woodside infanticides
The distribution and origin of meends in the Forest of Dean
The Coleford Market Hall Company Ltd, 1865 - 1943
Poor law and workhouses in the Forest of Dean
Arthur Trotter and the slanting shaft engine