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Image: Lydbrook Viaduct, the beginning of the end. - photos by local photographer Roger Walding
 
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image: Waterloo Colliery
 
 
Courtesy of :
 Margaret Wilce      
 

Waterloo Colliery, Upper Lydbrook.
Margaret added (June 2007): "Began 1841 it was taken over by Lydney and Crump Meadow Colleries 1908. - This information was printed on the back of the (top) photograph".

Rita James added (July 2007): "My grandfather John (Harry) Henry James left Waterloo Colliery around 1927 to come to New Zealand with my grandmother Agnes and father John (Jack) Alan James. His brothers probably worked there as well. Oliver and Howard James".

 
   
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  © G.K. Davis, Bream.