Sidney James RIVERS - parents & some siblings (General)

by peteressex , Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 07:21 (5582 days ago) @ slowhands

Although I can't see a link by virtue of the threads here so far, it's well possible that the Rivers family you're researching are related to the Rivers family who once owned Parkend Sawmills. I knew them around the early to mid 1950s because the owner, Mr W Rivers, known at least behind his back as "Old Man Rivers", and his son Les, who owned an Aston Martin, used to attend Springfield Methodist Church at Lydney where my grandparents by the name of Essex used to take me.

Unfortunately I have no later information, and in particular I don't known what became of Old Man or Les Rivers when the sawmills were taken over. However, if you want to try for any similarity of physical characteristics, photos on sungreen.co.uk lead you to Les Rivers standing by a sawmills lorry and his father presiding at a Lydney Congregational choir event.