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Getting On, In & Out of the Forest

7/1/2021

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The latest contributor to our website is Glenda Griffiths who grew up in Broadwell. Some of her most enduring recollections are of the Second World War.  She finished her schooling in Gloucester where she faced challenges having come from the Forest. Glenda’s grandparents, and later her parents, managed the Bird in Hand public house in Broadwell. Glenda left her pharmacy job to work at the Meredith and Drew biscuit factory that offered better pay and conditions. The factory, that offered jobs to over 300 people, thrived for a decade but sensing that it would close Glenda moved to Rosedale, another Cinderford factory producing moulded plastic toys. Glenda recalls her future husbands’ failure of etiquette in that era, of not asking her father if he could marry her. Her employer showed a reluctance to support her through her pregnancy reflecting prejudices towards pregnant women and working mothers in the workplace. She later discovered that a woman described as her Aunt, was in fact her sister.
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Farm-worker, police officer...and anti-poacher patrols!

19/11/2020

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Our latest addition comes from retired police officer Nigel Isaac. Born in 1942, Nigel grew up in Hucclecote and remembers the anti-aircraft infrastructure there from World War Two. He talks about going to school in Gloucester and the bullying he experienced. His varied working life saw him first following his parents' advice to take up an apprenticeship, but closure of the factory gave him the chance to make his own choice and he decided to work in farming. Later he decided to join the police force and underwent training at the police college in Dorset. Moving back to the area now as a police officer, he describes how much he enjoyed walking the beat in and around Lydney, and how - without radios - they kept in touch with the station. Nigel also describes how he became involved in anti-poaching patrols on the River Wye. 

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