Forest of Dean Electoral Rolls

Please excuse a cheeky Aussie asking another question in the one day - but could anyone tell me where the electoral registers for the Forest of Dean 1920-1960 are stored? They don't seem to be at the Gloucestershire Archives or maybe I'm reading the catalogue incorrectly (another distinct possibility)

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks again :)

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Hi

Please excuse a cheeky Aussie asking another question in the one day - but could anyone tell me where the electoral registers for the Forest of Dean 1920-1960 are stored? They don't seem to be at the Gloucestershire Archives or maybe I'm reading the catalogue incorrectly (another distinct possibility)

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks again :)

They should be in the Glos Archives

"Gloucestershire Archives holds electoral rolls for the Gloucestershire Constituencies 1832-1915 (with some gaps)

Between 1918 and 1974 Cheltenham electoral rolls are held at Cheltenham Local Studies
Library. Cheltenham registers 1975 onwards are held at Gloucestershire Archives
From 1974 onwards Kingswood, North Avon and South Gloucestershire registers are
held by the South Gloucestershire Electoral Services ( tel:01454 863030
email:Electoral.Services@southglos.gov.uk).

For all other districts Gloucestershire Archives hold registers from 1918 onwards.

We should hold registers for the years up to last year, but this is not always the case for all districts. If you are interested in a register after 2006

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

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Thank you. Someone told me the FOD electoral registers weren't at the Archives which is why I was asking, but I'll send them an email tonight and ask.

Thanks again. This is the most helpful site I know. :)

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Hi all

I've just got some info through about my lot on the electoral rolls in the 1930's.

Up until 1938 they're listed as being "Breams Eaves, Bream." In 1939 they're at 64, Council Villas, Parkend Road, Bream -which we knew though somehow we always thought they'd moved earlier than that.

We have pictures of the house in Parkend Road. But are there any old photos online of Breams Eaves and the old cottages there where they might have been living prior to 1939? I'm sure there are in a very obvious spot and this geographically-challenged Aussie just isn't finding them. Some of the Preests had cottages at Breams Eaves according to the 1909 Land Survey, so I wonder if they were living in one of those?

And, if I'm looking at things rightly, Breams Eaves and Parkend Road are pretty much side by side as the crow flies - so am I right in thinking that they could have carried a lot of their goods and chattels to the new house in 1939 without too much fuss?

Thanks muchly everyone.

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Hi all

I've just got some info through about my lot on the electoral rolls in the 1930's.

Up until 1938 they're listed as being "Breams Eaves, Bream." In 1939 they're at 64, Council Villas, Parkend Road, Bream -which we knew though somehow we always thought they'd moved earlier than that.

We have pictures of the house in Parkend Road. But are there any old photos online of Breams Eaves and the old cottages there where they might have been living prior to 1939? I'm sure there are in a very obvious spot and this geographically-challenged Aussie just isn't finding them. Some of the Preests had cottages at Breams Eaves according to the 1909 Land Survey, so I wonder if they were living in one of those?

And, if I'm looking at things rightly, Breams Eaves and Parkend Road are pretty much side by side as the crow flies - so am I right in thinking that they could have carried a lot of their goods and chattels to the new house in 1939 without too much fuss?

Thanks muchly everyone.

Yes

you are in the right place The Eaves , or Bream's Eaves, or Bream Eaves etc ( North East corner of Bream)
is found on the Parkend Rd heading north out of Bream, and on the Whitecroft Rd heading East out of Bream.

Is it possible that they did not move in 1939 but that the address in the electoral register just became more precise, the council houses were built between the 2 WW's ?

recent images

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1532916

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1532921

Approx postcode "GL15 6LR" https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=GL15+6LZ&ie=UTF-8&ei=l5F8UtXVKoPTtAa2xoDwBQ&am...

http://www.westdeanpc.org.uk/bream/

After the First World War there was much new building in the Bream area. From 1923 houses were built by West Dean rural district council, and by the Second World War dwellings, including 64 council houses, lined the Parkend road as far as Knockley Cottages, a pair of houses to the north-east built by the Crown in 1909 for the Princess Royal Colliery Co. Later council houses were on the east side of Bream’s Eaves. There development of the Hillside estate, south of the Yorkley road, began in 1948 with the provision of 20 bungalows (later replaced) and continued in 1992 with the construction of 14 houses under the sponsorship of the district council and a housing association.

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

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Thanks for the great reply.

I was thinking that -that maybe the addresses became more precise rather than them moving house. But on the pre-1939 electoral rolls there are already houses numbered "Council Villas, Parkend Drive, Bream" and post-war there's still places simply called "The Eaves, Bream." So I think they did move house, especially since the address on their youngest daughter's 1918 birth cert is already Bream's Eaves and their Parkend Road house would have been built later.

They seem to have lived at Collier's Birch - probably in her dad's other house or with her parents - then Brockhollands for a few years - Bream's Eaves - and finally Parkend Road. That's following the addresses on their children's baptism/birth records. Hoping to find out more by delving into some more electoral rolls soon.

And much appreciation again for the links. Off to take a closer look after dinner

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They definitely could have moved very easily! There is a straight short road connecting what I always think of as Breams Eaves to Parkend Road which to my knowledge was always considered Bream Woodlands and not Breams Eaves. Breams Eaves was traditionally just above the Princess Royal colliery (the road leading from Whitecroft to Bream).

Best wishes
Carol

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That's excellent info - thank you!

Pops as they called him worked at the Princess Royal Colliery.

I like the idea of just having to move a step and a jump away.

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They definitely could have moved very easily! There is a straight short road connecting what I always think of as Breams Eaves to Parkend Road which to my knowledge was always considered Bream Woodlands and not Breams Eaves. Breams Eaves was traditionally just above the Princess Royal colliery (the road leading from Whitecroft to Bream).

Best wishes
Carol

Bream Eaves is that East to North East corner of "Bream", where the High St / Rd branches to form Whitecroft Rd and Parkend Rd; and below Whitecroft Rd toward Princess Royal.

The sweep from Whitecroft Rd up towards the Parkend Rd is Bream Eaves Inclosure no1
http://www.geograph.org.uk/showmap.php?gridref=SO606064

further along the Whitecroft rd is Bream Eaves Inclosure no2

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