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A photo showing "Bubs" Carpenter and Thomas Lucas at Woodside, Bream, Gloucestershire

Woodside, Bream, Gloucestershire

Above: Charles William (Will) Carpenter and Thomas Lucas at Woodside, Bream.

A photo fo Annie Elizabeth Kathleen Thomas at Woodside, bream.
“Liz” Thomas at Woodside, Bream.
A photo of Joan Kathleen Thomas at Woodside, Bream.
Joan Thomas at Woodside, Bream.

The photo above was taken around 1934.

A Mock-up image of a house at Woodside, Bream
This image is patched together from the 2 images above it to give an idea of how the houses looked. Click to enlarge.

On the left is Lucas House,
At the back of the Lucas house, with the large chimney is a kitchen with a boiler shared by people who rented the houses on the right i.e. the Thomas, Phillips and Challenger families.

An image showing Part of the 1922 OS map showing Woodside, Bream.
Map source: National Library of Scotland. (1922) Click to enlarge.

The map extract shows the houses, the arrow shows the approximate position of the photographer and the direction in which the photos were taken.

A photo showing The well at Woodside, Bream in 1934
The well at Woodside, Bream in 1934
An image showing Part of the 1922 OS map showing Woodside, Bream.
Map source: National Library of Scotland. (1922) Click to enlarge.

The girl to the left is Chal Thomas’s daughter Nancy, the girl to the right is Chal’s oldest daughter Joan. The girl in the centre is Gladys Lucas. The low structure to the right of the picture is the communal well and to the left was small pool for ducks.. The roads are dirt tracks. The road running alongside the wall at the top of the hill is Beech Way. The tree in the background is the Beech tree after which High Beech and Beech Way were named. Behind the tree is Cook’s Barn and to the left of the barn is Cook’s Farm.

An image showing Charles Thomas at Woodside, Bream.
Charles Thomas at Woodside, Bream.
An image showing Part of the 1922 OS map showing Woodside, Bream.
Map source: National Library of Scotland. (1922) Click to enlarge.
A photo of Dennis Lucas at Woodside, Bream, Gloucestershire.
Dennis Lucas at Woodside, Bream, Gloucestershire.
An image showing Part of the 1922 OS map showing Woodside, Bream.
Map source: National Library of Scotland. (1922) Click to enlarge.

The two-house brick built extension (left) to the original stone built house (right) can be easily seen.

A photo showing houses at Bream, Woodside in 2006
Houses at Woodside, Bream in 2006.

Some of the features in the earlier photos are still visible.

A phot showing Tte Lucas family at Bream Woodside.

The Lucas family standing where the pink extension is shown in the 2006 photo.
L-R Gladys Lucas, Olive Carpenter, Kate Lucas, Tim Lucas?, Thomas Lucas.

An image showing Part of the 1922 OS map showing Woodside, Bream.
Map source: National Library of Scotland. (1922) Click to enlarge.

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    Keith Hulls:
    “As a young child in the 1950s I would be taken to Bream to visit my grandmothers sister, Agnes Challenger (nee Bullock), and her husband, Albert, whom I know from records lived on Woodside and then Pastors Hill. They had 2 children, Dennis and Jean. They lived in what, I believe, was a single storey building, that had a well in the kitchen, covered with wooden boards, chickens in the back yard, and a derelict lorry chassis in the front garden. I have not been back to Bream in the intervening years, and am not aware of any surviving relatives, so I was wondering if there are any of the older Bream residents, who can pinpoint the location of the property I have described”.

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