Old Photos of The Forest of Dean
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Left to right:
1 Will ("Sharper") Preest, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 Arthur Jones ?, 7 .
Arthur Jones nicknamed "Arthur Nine-Pigs" was in charge of the horses at Park Gutter. In the late 1920s he had a win on the Irish Sweepstake with a 10 shilling ticket. First prize was £2,000. Arthur was involved with Bream Rugby Club, who had a very good team at the time. He bought a Willis Knight (car) and used in to pick up miners on a match day. Players that had to work "down the pit" before the game, went down on the "first bond" so that they would be first to come up from "Pit Bottom" at the end of the shift. Arthur would be waiting with his Willis, to whisk them up Whitecroft Road to Bream R.F.C. H.Q. and changing rooms at the Rising Sun Inn, Bream. There was no time to wash, so the miners changed into their rugby kit and had to play the game in their "pit dirt".
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