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F.W. Harvey (1888-1957)
| Posted on January 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM |
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Today I added a link to the new Frederick William Harvey website.
An excellent site featuring the Yorkley poet.
Winifred Foley (1914-2009)
| Posted on April 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM |
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On 21st March 2009, Winifred Foley died aged 94. Born Winifred Mary Mason, in the village of Brierley, her beautiful and truthful autobiographical books evoke life in and out of the Forest of Dean in the last century. She was the Forest of Dean's Flora Thompson. In "A Child in the Forest", she spoke with an authentic voice about the hardships and joys of being brought up in the Forest of Dean in the twenties. Her father was a miner and was not allowed to work for seven years due to his role a...
Read Full Post »Minutes Forest of Dean District Council Meeting (Extract)
| Posted on August 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM |
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31st July 2008
Councillor Bruce Hogan proposed the following motion: -
The
Read Full Post »Minutes Forest of Dean District Council Meeting (Extract)
| Posted on August 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM |
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31st July 2008
Three public questions had been submitted for consideration. Members were informed that a supplementary question would be perm...
Read Full Post »Update on Two Rivers Protest: "We won?t pay and are going to keep on Fighting.?
| Posted on July 30, 2008 at 4:13 PM |
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Forest Review ? July 30th 2008
Update on Two Rivers Protest
A meeting for Two Rivers residents is being held in Cinderford to update protesters about progress with the counci...
Read Full Post »Cholera in the Forest of Dean
| Posted on July 26, 2008 at 7:12 PM |
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Here is an interesting question from Carol Herschell who has asked about Cholera in the Forest of Dean
"i am trying to find out about the cholera epidemic in the 1830s and the effect on my family would you have any idea where i could find this sort of information. very kind regards from south africa."Read Full Post »
Two Rivers service charges are largest scale injustice to affect people in the Forest
| Posted on July 26, 2008 at 5:42 PM |
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Forester - 24th July 2008
According to this week?s Forester, District Councillor Lynn Sterry has joined the protest against the Two Rivers grass-cutting charges.
She says of grass cutting charges: ?It is the largest scale injustice to affect people in the
Read Full Post »Unfair Service Charges - Miners Welfare Hall, Cinderford - 7pm on Friday 4th July
| Posted on July 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM |
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Two Rivers Housing residents continue their fight against maintenance fees.
There is massive opposition to the introduction of these charges by Two Rivers Housing. (Around 3,500 tenants and 2,100 owners are believed to have received notice they will have to pay for services such as grass cutting and hedge trimming.)
Amanda Sterry,...
Read Full Post »Join the Protest March against the unfair service charges
| Posted on June 20, 2008 at 11:46 AM |
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Angry homeowners will march up Cinderford High Street at 11am on Saturday in a protest against grass cutting charges.
Cinderford mayor Max Coborn and district councilor Graham Morgan revealed the protest at a mass petition signing at Cinderford Miners' Welfare Hall last Friday.
Hundreds of people fro...
Read Full Post »The Petition against unfair service charges on Forest of Dean properties
| Posted on June 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM |
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Please can you spare a few minutes to sign this online petition.
www.gopetition.co.uk/online/19684/signatures.html
It is opposing unfair and frankly illegal service charges that are being levied from over 3,000 ex-council house owners (including us) in the Forest of Dean by a Two Rivers Housing association who have just brought the remaining council houses from the council. Many of these houses have been own privately for decades, and are nothi... Read Full Post »
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