Euroclydon House near Drybrook
Courtesy of: Mike Hide. Uploaded: .
Mike wrote: "Walking
around a small church yard in Kite Georgia I noticed a few names that
you don't see very much in this neck of the woods but are familiar to
the Forest, notably Meeks and Gunter.
As a small boy I lived close to Drybrook at a house shown in the photograph called "Euroclydon" (the
house on the hill with the tower). We lived there with my Grandparents, the Marfells.
In the foreground is Hawthorns Cross and to the left was a small pub, to the
immediate right was Silverstone
Farm which they also owned".
If you can use the photograph ,which probably was taken in the 20s, feel free
to do so....regards Mike Hide
Frederick Meek added (August 2010): "... As a lad I grew up in Drybrook in 1950/60's. Euroclyden then was an hotel which had a small swimming pool at the rear we used to swim in. My friends parents ran the Crown Pub Marshall's but it was converted to a house in the 1980s . Now Euroclyden is a nursing home where a few years ago I worked as a care assistant looking after many of Drybrooks old folk. Lovely memories of the whole area the people of the Drybrook and the surrounding area were full of characters".
Brian Evans added (January 2011): "... My grandfather Fred Evans ran the Crown inn at the left of the picture until the late 1940s My uncle John John Evans still lives nearby at the Plump in Mitcheldean".
John Gorham added (July 2011): "... I went to Drybrook school and in 1953, when it was coronation day, I went up the tower with a lad who lived there - can't remember his name. I left Drybrook in 1957 and joined the Royal Navy. I left the navy in 1969 and have since lived in Stevenage".
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