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image: Tom Brown and Martha Maude Baker c 1905 at Biblins Lodge
 
 
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 Steve Cooper      
 

Tom Brown and Martha Maude Baker at Biblins Lodge around 1905.
Tom Brown was born in Reddings Lodge in Highmeadow Woods in 1881. His mother was born in Biblins Lodge and is possibly the "Granny Brown" in the photo below. Tom Brown was of the original students at the Forestry School started in Coleford in 1904. It later moved to Parkend. When his father retired as Keeper (of Biblins Lodge) in 1902, Tom succeeded him and remained there until the First World War. He was employed by the newly formed Forestry Commission in 1919 and was involved in the planting of the commission's very first tree at Eggesford Forest in Devon that same year.
Source: Newspaper article by Dr Cyril Hart - 1994.

image Granny Brown at Biblins Lodge c 1900
Granny Brown at Biblins Lodge c 1900 (courtesy of Brian Moore)

 
 
 
   
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