KEAR, Cinderford shopkeepers (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, November 21, 2014, 16:43 (3443 days ago) @ macast

Hi,
I doubt I have anything new to offer you, but heregoes just in case.

Presumably this is the photo you're referring to, from Humphrey Phelp's book ?
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zU-IAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT117&lpg=PT117&dq=kear+...

I didn't realise this great book was now "readable" online, thanks for prompting me into searching so finding it :-)

I also see Kear's bakers is covered in Volume 20 of the New Regard journal, have you seen it ?.
http://www.forestofdeanhistory.org.uk/publications/new-regards/index-to-new-regard-vol-...

Another nice early photo here of J.Kear's shop, from the early 1900s I think.
http://way-mark.co.uk/foresthaven/livnhist/photo054.htm#

You also probably know that a few Kear shops, including James & sons (Baker), are listed in the 1902 Kelly's Directory.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cbennett/cinderford1902.htm

I must admit this thread has confused me a little, not hard it must be said !
As a kid in Cinderford in the 1970s I'm sure my mum used to talk about Kears the Bakers, altho it seems the Kears had long since stopped working there, I presume the name stuck ?.
I recall a small baker's shop on the Lower High Street just opposite Jones' Garage, was that Kear's ??.