William Stenson and Forest of Dean coal mining (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, March 13, 2014, 22:54 (3909 days ago) @ dent

Hi Christoper,
I see William Stenson is already well-served by various websites, I presume this is the same man ?. http://www.coalville-heritage.info/early_coalville.html etc
As you'll know the miners moved all around the UK, and further, to find work, so links between Leicestershire and the Dean are highly likely. I don't recall seeing or reading about William Stenson as regards the Dean, but to be honest this is a new name to me so I may well have missed the significance.

I'm sure you already know this, but I would suggest the Dean Heritage Museum would be a good place to enquire about William Stenson.

I also recommend contacting Ian Pope from Cinderford, of the FoD Coal Mines site and also the excellent Archives etc publications from Lightmoor Press. He's a Forest historian thro & thro, particularly railways and industry, his father Alec Pope was a wellknown Dean industrial historian and photographer before him.
http://www.lightmoor.co.uk/forestcoal/Coalopen.html

Similarly his friend/colleague Neil Parkhouse, also at Lightmoor or his new(ish) venture Archive Images. I've discussed FoD old photos with him by email and he was very helpful indeed, he used to post on this forum but I don't know if he still does.
http://www.archive-images.co.uk/index.php

Finally the FoD Local History Society. As a fellow son of Cinderford I can see I'll have to buy a copy of their latest "New Regard" magazine, thanks to you for making me aware of it !
http://www.forestofdeanhistory.org.uk/LHSnrlatest.html

Searches of the local papers (Mercury at Cinderford library) would possibly help you too.

Good luck !