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Image: Lydney High Street (45k)
 
 
Courtesy of :
 Stuart Akers      
 

The furthest building, with the flagpole, was the offices and stores of the Anglo-Bavarian Brewery Ltd, of Shepton Mallet. Most people will remember it as Lydney Post Office. Most of the left side of the photo is now occupied by Tesco. At the time of the photo - in the early 1900's, this was the main road to South Wales.

Thanks also to Rog Dennis who added (May 2007): "Fantastic - a photo of No. 44, High Street, or "Rosemont" at last. I've waited years to find a photo, as nobody in the family photographed the front!!! This is the house, on the left, with the canopied door. Mr. J.S. Watts was noted in the 1910 Directory as being its resident. In 1939, my grandparents William E.E. " Eddie" Pritchard and Annie "Nana" Pritchard (nee Jones, of Blistors Farm, Bream) moved here from 2, Oxford St, in 1939. My grandmother ran it as a guest house, for John Watts, until early 60s, when she (widowed in 1957) moved back to 2, Oxford St. What a wonderful house, with a huge garden - paradise when I stayed here in 1951, 1953 and 1956, with my parents Roy Dennis and Mary (nee Pritchard), who is pictured on the L.G.S. photo of 1938".

 
   
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  © G.K. Davis, Bream.