Tom Brown and Martha Maude Baker c 1905
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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.
Granny Brown at Biblins Lodge c 1900 (courtesy of Brian
Moore)
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