July 14th 1915
My mother was born on Bastille Day, July 14th, 1915; Her mum and dad had met at church, In the choir of St John the Baptist and St Helen, Up on Church Hill, Wroughton, Just below the ridgeway, high above Swindon. I never met my grand-father, he died before my birth, A...
Archibald Knee and Dorothy Beard
Coroner’s Report, 1916 The link above takes you to transcripts of the coroner’s report, 1916. Please read below as well … this is an astonishing story from WW1 ‘My beloved fiancée, Dorothy Beard, aged 18, of Burleigh, Brimscombe, and I,...
Echoes in Enamel, by Sue Brown, at Stroud Museum
Home Front (From the Kitchen to the Factory) Decorated spoons hanging on the wall, Like so many enamel medals; Spanners turned to ornaments, Like so many swords to ploughshares; The world of home and war juxtaposed In a museum cabinet of domestic remembrance: A sewing...
1914-1918: And Now For The Final Cost:
(With thanks to Crispin Thomas and Johnny Fluffypunk) Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 1 Barnsley 4 Blackburn Rovers 2 Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 3 Bolton Wanderers 1 Bradford City 9 Derby County 6 Brentford 7 Brighton and Hove Albion 5 Bristol City 5 Bristol Rovers 3...
Forest Green Rovers and WW1
Forest Green was, as historian Tim Barnard comments: ‘A staunchly Non Conformist village, made up of Baptists and Congregationalists’ – Although the club was based at a pub, ‘The Jovial Forester … Lower Forest Green … in those early years’; Tim also comments...
Archibald Knee and Dorothy Beard
Extract from Coroner’s Inquisition Stroud News Archibald Clutterbuck Knee and Dorothy Beard Published 8th September 1916 2nd September 1916 at The Weighbridge Inn into the deaths of Archibald Clutterbuck Knee and Dorothy Beard Double Tragedy Near Stroud —————– SOLDIER...