{"id":5822,"date":"2023-07-31T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:30:19","slug":"last-cargo-of-coal-from-lydney-docks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/last-cargo-of-coal-from-lydney-docks\/","title":{"rendered":"Last cargo of coal from Lydney Docks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Courtesy of: Bryan Nelmes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The three girls on the large photo, from left to right, are Heather Johnson, Sylvia Kiely and Gwen Roberts, all from the Tutnalls area of Lydney. It was taken by Gwen\u2019s dad who was a driver on the railway. Coincidentally, he was a friend of Stan Nelmes from Bream who was a guard on the railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Ten years after this was taken Sylvia would marry Bryan, Stan\u2019s son. Sylvia and her friend, Janet Cook, would go on to run the Family Affair shop on Brockhollands Road, Bream which later became the Post Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes on the back of the photo:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Engine 1631<br>Berthing the last cargo of coal on No 9 tip for the (Boat) &#8220;Yara&#8221; <br>Oct 31st 1960, time 3:30 p.m.<br>The last to be shipped from Lydney Docks. <br>BR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6766.jpeg\" alt=\"A photo of Sylvia and Janet at Family Affair Post Office in 2008\" class=\"has-border-color has-secondary-border-color wp-image-5857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6766.jpeg 545w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6766-300x249.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sylvia and Janet at Family Affair Post Office in 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three girls at Lydney Docks and the last coal shipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lydney","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5860,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}