https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Leisure/Museums-and-archives/archives/Past-F...

I now belatedly see this subject was covered by the venerable Slowhands in this old forum thread from about the same time, perhaps he was involved in researching it ? As can be seen, sadly Lewis' promising career at rugby's top level was ended by WW1. This thread also covers Lewis Bradley's family tree.

http://www.forest-of-dean.net/fodmembers/index.php?mode=thread&id=1185

Also see
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=7&id=20669&gallery=Wigan+Rugby+...

If you do wish to contact Glyn, this old post may help http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=38698

Hope this helps, Jeff

Do you know if this would have been a pub in 1956?

Location: Ruardean Woodside
Address:
Postcode: GL17 9UL
Information:
Ruardean Woodhouse is a straggling settlement half a mile to the south of Ruardean.

The Roe Buck was situated just above from the Memorial Hall in Forest Road.

The Bradley family ran the pub as a free house for many years, eventually selling out to the Alton Court Brewery in Ross on Wye.

Stroud Brewery acquired the business in 1956 and the Roe Buck sold Cotswold Beers brewed by the Stroud Brewery until closure.

The site of the Roe Buck is now occupied by a residential development called Roebuck Meadows

Detail:
Map Reference: SO 628167

Owner in 1891: Enoch Bradley (free from brewery tie)

Rateable value in 1891: £18.0s.0d.

Type of licence in 1891: Beerhouse

Owner in 1903: John Bradley (free from brewery tie)

Rateable value in 1903: £18.0s.0d.

Type of licence in 1903: Beerhouse

Closing time in 1903: 10pm

Landlords:
1891 Enoch Bradley

1903 John Bradley

1939 Albert Marfell

1968 Graham and Joan Roberts

Marfell's Way Ruardean
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en-GB&rlz=1T4GGHP_en-GBGB464GB465&q=%22marfell...

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=roe+buck+inn+ruardean&source=web&a...

The land, the subject of the application, is known as Roebuck Field. This is an area of some 4 acres in size and
bounded on the south by the Memorial Hall, Roebuck Meadows and Marfell’s Way; on the north by The Patches a
public highway; between residential premises fronting Wesley Road on the western side, and premises fronting
Duttons Lane on the east.

The new development at Roebuck Meadows and Marfell’s Way stands roughly on the location of the former Roebuck Inn,
demolished as a precursor to this development. At present the only formal access to this field lies along
Marfell’s Way which abuts the field, ending at a vehicular gate and a stile. There was until a few months ago,
an easy pedestrian access into the field along the side of the memorial hall. This has now been fenced off by
the objector. The field itself slopes down from the east.

It is grassed with the western most half being cut fairly short, whilst the eastern half being rather
scrubbier in appearance. Three mature Sycamore trees stand in a line at the entrance to the field off Marfell’s Way
marking the division between cut grass and scrub.

Roe Back Ruardean Woodside - 1956 Roe Buck Inn, Ruardean Woodside GL17 9UL
now Roebuck Meadows, Ruardean Woodside, Ruardean GL17 9UL

Do you know if this would have been a pub in 1956?
Parish Record
Record_ID: 275197
Entry_Number: 475
Year: 1956
Month: Dec
Day: 1
Surname: MARFELL
Forenames: Albert Enoch
Residence: Roe Back Ruardean Woodside
Age_at_death: 63 yrs
Officiating_Minister: R C Stebbing Rector
Event: Burial

Roe Back Ruardean Woodside - 1956 Roe Buck Inn, Ruardean Woodside GL17 9UL
now Roebuck Meadows, Ruardean Woodside, Ruardean GL17 9UL

Hazle Villas Drybook Ruardean - poss 1960s Hazel Villas, High Street, Drybrook GL17 9ES

Hawkwell Row East Dean Ruardean Hill - 1891 Hawkwell Row, Drybrook GL17 9DE

Road to ES Works East Dean - there was a chemical works in the area - Naptha ??
Vaughans Pool and East Slade Works {ES Works} http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=4410

Map OS ref 362980 216280 East Slade look for "shafts disused in approx area"
http://www.geograph.org.uk/showmap.php?gridref=SO6216

http://www.lightmoor.co.uk/forestcoal/CoalEastSlade.html

In 1881 five chemical works produced a range of substances by distilling wood, including charcoal, pyroligneous acid, tar, and naphtha, and employed a total of c. 130 men. (fn. 24) The oldest works, near Cannop bridge, were in use in 1835, (fn. 25) and George Skipp, who manufactured lead acetate there in 1841, (fn. 26) built similar works in the Oakwood valley near Bream in 1844. (fn. 27) In 1854 the Oakwood factory belonged to Isaiah Trotter of Coleford. (fn. 28) The Cannop factory later produced sulphuric acid and crushed charcoal for making lampblack. (fn. 29) At the Upper Lydbrook works, established in 1857, (fn. 30) Samuel Russell produced naphtha in 1859 (fn. 31) and the Broadmoor works, built north of Cinderford by John and Thomas Powell c. 1864, later made lead acetate. (fn. 32) In 1870 the firm of Chapman & Morgan operated the chemical works some way south of Whitecroft. (fn. 33) S. M. Thomas took over the Lydbrook factory in the mid 1870s, (fn. 34) acquired the Cannop and Oakwood works c. 1890, and sold them all in 1894 to Thomas Newcomen, who ceased operations at Oakwood and Cannop in 1900 and 1902 respectively. (fn. 35) The Whitecroft works, which had closed by 1883, (fn. 36) may have been in use again in the late 1880s and early 1890s (fn. 37) and the Broadmoor works were abandoned before 1900. (fn. 38) The Lydbrook factory, which also made foundry blackings, remained in use until c. 1933. (fn. 39) In 1913 the Crown built distillation works at Cannop to turn waste and unsaleable timber to profit. The factory, beside the Severn & Wye railway next to the Mitcheldean-Coleford and Lydbrook-Parkend roads, produced charcoal, tar, alcohol, and acetate of lime. Run by the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War, it was idle from 1919 to 1924 when it was sold to Wood Distillation (England) Ltd. Following a reorganization of the company in the late 1920s the factory was modernized and in 1935 it employed 22 men. From 1960 it produced only charcoal (fn. 40) and in 1971 it was closed. (fn. 41)

From: 'Forest of Dean: Industry', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 326-354. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23267 Date accessed: 15 June 2012.

Wishing to make the most of my next trip with your help, I have a couple more locations from postcards, address books, burial notices and census returns. They all have MARFELL connections. Any chance you could possibly locate:

Roe Back Ruardean Woodside - 1956
Hazle Villas Drybook Ruardean - poss 1960s
Hawkwell Row East Dean Ruardean Hill - 1891

Road to ES Works East Dean - 1871 Head of household here was a coal miner. Is this the connection with ES Works? I haven't been able to find anything on this site through searches so far.

Many thanks once again.

Can't thank you enough for locating all these for me, I have been trying for ages. Obviously they will be on my list for my next visit, how convenient that they are all within sight of each other too!

However, I have a couple more I'd like to locate just in case anyone has any other ideas. They are: 'Novello' Ruardean Woodside and 'Hain Villa' Ruardean Woodside.

1, Hain Villa, Forest Road, Ruardean Woodside, Ruardean GL17 9XR

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGHP_en-GBGB464GB465&q=GL17+9XR&...

However, I have a couple more I'd like to locate just in case anyone has any other ideas. They are: 'Novello' Ruardean Woodside and 'Hain Villa' Ruardean Woodside.

Novello, Forest Road, Ruardean, GL17 9XR

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGHP_en-GBGB464GB465&q=GL17+9XR&...

I doubt if there will be any way I will be able to find exactly where certain addresses were over 100 years ago.

However, I have a couple more I'd like to locate just in case anyone has any other ideas. They are: 'Novello' Ruardean Woodside and 'Hain Villa' Ruardean Woodside.

Please can you tell me if Wallace's residence 'The Farm' is a dwelling or an area of land and is it possible to give an exact location?

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=37245

We have a Farm Road, and Farm Tump in Ruardean Woodside today, so a fair assumption that The Farm was close by - OS map ref SO 62990 16800

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGHP_en-GBGB464GB465&q=GL17+9XR&...