www.sungreen.co.uk/Bream-Forest-of-Dean/Tom-Cowles-Shutcastle.htm - 5k -

(Photo of gentleman on the site)
Courtesy of: Jo Watkins Uploaded: 2007

Jo wrote (June 2007): "This is a photograph of my great great grandfather Thomas Dobson Cowles (born Dec 1850), father of George Tom Cowles who was born 5th May 1874. A farm labourer, he lived in Shutcastle, Bream and was married to Susan, Annie (nee Tyrrell)".
The photo probably dates from around 1910.

Allwyne Cowles added (March 2008): "I believe that this gentleman is also my great, great grandfather. He had at least one other son, Hubert David, born 31st Dec; 1875 in Taynton, Gloucestershire, who moved to/lived in York. My fathers name was Joseph Thomas, born 11th April 1910".

Tom Cowles was a tenant at Shutcastle Lodge Bream (near Flourmill Colliery - but now demolished) in 1901. (Geoff Waygood - The new Regard No 19 2004)

In the early 19th century, when the royal demesne of the Forest was replanted, 24 small lodges were established to house woodmen to guard and maintain the new inclosures. (fn. 72) For Shutcastle Inclosure, near Ellwood, a cottage on an old encroachment was bought,

From: 'Forest of Dean: Settlement', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 300-325. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23266. Date accessed: 14 April 2008.

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=8654#p8675

It was a wood keepers lodge / cottage

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