Contents
From Silver Spoon to Lead Balloon: The rather short story of Blakeney Hill Galena Mine
Keith Walker
Cutting Corners- A remarkable Victorian plan to divert the River Severn
John Powell
Revolutionary reporter and Forest of Dean MP
Nigel Costley
‘Nobody minds, the public pays’: The National Dockyard at Beachley
Averil Kear
Standing ‘The Gaff’
Dean Baxter
The Forest’s Role To Finery Steelmaking In Britain, 1560s - c1700
David Cranstone
The Talbot Ironworks, lost and found
David Mullin
William Cobbett in the Forest of Dean
David Mullin
Interesting and notable trees of Dean Thirty years on Part 2: Beech and Lime
Ian Standing
Interesting and notable trees of Dean Thirty years on Addendum to Part 1 the Oaks
Ian Standing
The work of the last Home Office Mining Surveyors in Dean
Paul Morgan
Broadwell: An incomplete history
Roger Drury, Penny Hulbert and the residents of Broadwell