I have just visited the photo's, I found photos of Parkend where my gradnparents lived in the square we would go stay with them, They were moved then to woodland rice parkend, I remember visiting the 2 shops they had there, And the beautiful old church we used to visit with our Gran, Our Grancher used to take us up over the 'tumps' or we would go sit up there and watch people coming into the square,

They are such happy memories, My Gran and Grancher was Thomas and Emily Bowery, They were a beautiful couple, Their Daughter Edith was my Mother, If this is printed anyone knowing this family could get in touch i would love to hear from anyone, My G Grandparents lived in Glass houses newent she was Ana who came from Spain, Anyone knowing anything about her i'd love to hear from as i'm tracing the family tree, I'm stuck with the spanish side, Thank you for sharing this sight I will keep coming back.

Regards Geraldine 'nee Chaplin' Sandford

If anybody else would like to share their memories of their earlier days in the Forest, we would love to hear about them.

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Hi their i posted a message on here yesterday, So i thought i'd share another little story, When we used to go down the Forest to stay with Gran and Grancher for a few week to give our Mother a break Gran would put us on the Bus to Blakeney ''she would tell the conductor where we needed to be dropped off'' to visit our Aunty Gwen and our cousens Diane and Cynthia it was so much fun to spend time with them, Then we would get back on bus where Gran would always be there to get us althought the bus always stopped outside the Square,
The water tap was outside in teh Square where Grancher would have to 'fetch' water for drinking /cooking. we would help 'mind i think we were more inderence than help''lol, We would walk to shewds shop 'not spelt right' get some seets or go to Turleys, the park consisted of a few swings but oh the memories are still there,

Well i hope you enjoy reading these, my sisters and i used to enjoy our times down there, O of couse we used to think our forest family spoke funny, I still don't no what 'mosummy means ' Grancher used to always say that, and ' how be o but'anyway thats it o happy days

From Geraldine