I have just joined the Forum.
Your entry was sometime ago but my Grandmother lived in Hain Villa Ruardean Woodside and my Uncle lived at No 2 Hain Villa. I spent many happy holidays playing on the green and in the woods.
I have pictures of how it was before the extensions.
May I ask what is your interest as we are trying to trace the roots of the HALE family on Ruardean Woodside.

Current address in bold

Roe Back Ruardean Woodside - 1956 Roe Buck Inn, Ruardean Woodside GL17 9UL
now Roebuck Meadows, Ruardean Woodside, Ruardean GL17 9UL

Hazle Villas Drybook Ruardean - poss 1960s Hazel Villas, High Street, Drybrook GL17 9ES

Hawkwell Row East Dean Ruardean Hill - 1891 Hawkwell Row, Drybrook GL17 9DE

Road to ES Works East Dean - there was a chemical works in the area - Naptha ??
Vaughans Pool and East Slade Works {ES Works} http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=4410

Map OS ref 362980 216280 East Slade look for "shafts disused in approx area"
http://www.geograph.org.uk/showmap.php?gridref=SO6216

http://www.lightmoor.co.uk/forestcoal/CoalEastSlade.html

In 1881 five chemical works produced a range of substances by distilling wood, including charcoal, pyroligneous acid, tar, and naphtha, and employed a total of c. 130 men. (fn. 24) The oldest works, near Cannop bridge, were in use in 1835, (fn. 25) and George Skipp, who manufactured lead acetate there in 1841, (fn. 26) built similar works in the Oakwood valley near Bream in 1844. (fn. 27) In 1854 the Oakwood factory belonged to Isaiah Trotter of Coleford. (fn. 28) The Cannop factory later produced sulphuric acid and crushed charcoal for making lampblack. (fn. 29) At the Upper Lydbrook works, established in 1857, (fn. 30) Samuel Russell produced naphtha in 1859 (fn. 31) and the Broadmoor works, built north of Cinderford by John and Thomas Powell c. 1864, later made lead acetate. (fn. 32) In 1870 the firm of Chapman & Morgan operated the chemical works some way south of Whitecroft. (fn. 33) S. M. Thomas took over the Lydbrook factory in the mid 1870s, (fn. 34) acquired the Cannop and Oakwood works c. 1890, and sold them all in 1894 to Thomas Newcomen, who ceased operations at Oakwood and Cannop in 1900 and 1902 respectively. (fn. 35) The Whitecroft works, which had closed by 1883, (fn. 36) may have been in use again in the late 1880s and early 1890s (fn. 37) and the Broadmoor works were abandoned before 1900. (fn. 38) The Lydbrook factory, which also made foundry blackings, remained in use until c. 1933. (fn. 39) In 1913 the Crown built distillation works at Cannop to turn waste and unsaleable timber to profit. The factory, beside the Severn & Wye railway next to the Mitcheldean-Coleford and Lydbrook-Parkend roads, produced charcoal, tar, alcohol, and acetate of lime. Run by the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War, it was idle from 1919 to 1924 when it was sold to Wood Distillation (England) Ltd. Following a reorganization of the company in the late 1920s the factory was modernized and in 1935 it employed 22 men. From 1960 it produced only charcoal (fn. 40) and in 1971 it was closed. (fn. 41)

From: 'Forest of Dean: Industry', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 326-354. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23267 Date accessed: 15 June 2012.

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