Rank site Mitcheldean (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, January 08, 2012, 19:26 (4706 days ago) @ unknown

British Acoustic Films took on the old brewery site during the second world war (1941). BAF became part of Rank in 1948....

In 1941 British Acoustic Films Ltd. brought54 employees from London to the former brewery in Brook Street and during the war it made anti-aircraft devices and firefighting equipment there and increased its workforce to 250. After the war the factory, the development of which owed much to Frederick Wickstead, made cinematic equipment and as part of the Rank Organization from 1948 it was run by Rank Precision Industries Ltd.

From: 'Mitcheldean', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 173-195. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23259 Date accessed: 08 January 2012.

Jimmy Young was born in 1923 and went to East Dean Grammar school.EDGS Cinderford http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=1307#p1309

East Dean Grammar school originated as Cinderford Higher Elementary school, which thecounty council opened in 1910 as a secondaryschool and centre for training elementary schoolteachers. Occupying new buildings south ofStation Street, the school took children from 12years and its curriculum included industrial andcommercial subjects appropriate for local employment. It charged a tuition fee of £1 a pupila year and awarded some free places to childrenselected from elementary schools in and aroundthe Forest. (fn. 56) Known as Cinderford Secondaryschool from 1919 and East Dean Grammarschool from 1927, it had 367 pupils in 1932 (fn. 57) andremained a grammar school following the 1944Act. (fn. 58) Among buildings added to the StationStreet site were those of a mining school, (fn. 59) whichran secondary technical classes in many placesin the Forest area and in 1945 established theForest of Dean Secondary Technical school on theStation Street site. (fn. 60) The technical school admitted many boys from Ross-on-Wye (Herefs.). In1959 it merged with the grammar school, (fn. 61) which had more than 500 pupils in 1968 whenit was replaced by a new school at Five Acres. (fn. 62)

From: 'Forest of Dean: Education', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 405-413. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23274 Date accessed: 08 January 2012.

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