Rose in Hand Pub, Morse Lane, Drybrook, photos (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, August 16, 2012, 14:21 (4488 days ago) @ shanson150

I don't know whether the Rose In Hand is still trading, but searching the web shows it ws still advertising "live music" in The Forester newspaper in November 2010 -
"The Rose In Hand pub in Morse Lane, near Drybrook, is surreptitiously becoming a music hub....."

A local directory site suggests it's still trading, maybe worth phoning or writing, they may email you a photo or indeed have some history ?.

"Rose In Hand"
Morse Lane
Drybrook
Gloucestershire
GL17 9BE
01594 542788

Using Google Streetmap (so fairly recent) it can be found at junction of Morse Lane & Well Lane, with a large carpark to aid finding. The smart whitewash etc suggests it was trading then, so in the last few years. Hopefully this link gets you somewhere near it !?
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&q=GL179BE,+United+Kingdom&hl=en...

The book "Pubs of Forest of Dean" by Heather Hurley, Logaston Press 2004, has a photo of its frontage c2002;
"From Drybrook, the ancient Morse Lane & more recent Morse Road both lead to Ruardean. Along Morse Lane is the Rose In Hand, occupied by Richard Read a shopkeeper in 1876, when Thomas Baldwin was a beer retailer & butcher at The Morse. He took over the Rose In Crown at the beginning of the C20th but had left by 1913. Despite being on a quiet road this inn has remained open into the C21st".

These photos are not great but best I can find online.
http://www.cinderford-online.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/The-Rose-in-Hand.jpg

And the rather better
http://www.wheresbest.co.uk/venue/57959/The-Rose-In-Hand/
The photo will enlarge if you click on it, altho the Streetmap link altho very usefull is slightly off the mark, need to "walk" eastwards towards Well Lane.

Earlier posters suggested the excellent Gloucestershire Pubs website produced by author Geoff Sandles. He has just published a book solely about Forest of Dean pubs, altho sadly I haven't seen it (yet) so cannot vocuh for the coverage. As you've found his website can be tricky to navigate but is worth the effort. It also doesn't permit direct links, but if you revisit the home/search page there is an extensive post wrt the "Rose In Hand at Drybrook" with history & old & current photos. Like many search engines too much information doesnt work, in this case enter "Rose in Hand" OR "Drybrook" BUT not both; then browse thro the pages using the icons at the base of each page.
http://www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk/AllGlosPubsDatabase/AllGlosPubs_view.php

MORE TO FOLLOW wrt the Jovial Colliers, altho VERY sadly the supermarket now beckons... heres a start from what I believe to be the forerunner of the above Glos pubs site, the aforementioned Easywell, sometimes this gives extra detail. This link will take you there, no photos but slightly different text and some history of previous landlords including your George Wilks. Theres also a small item about the Rose in Hand Drybrook.

http://87.248.112.8/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=jovial+colliers+ruardean&type=61...

UPDATE: Thanks Slowhands for clarifying which of the two Ruardean "Jovial Colliers" was which, apologies for my imperfect link.