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Above: Charles William (Will) Carpenter and Thomas Lucas at Woodside, Bream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Liz” Thomas at Woodside, Bream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Joan Thomas at Woodside, Bream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The photo above was taken around 1934.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This image is patched together from the 2 images above it to give an idea of how the houses looked. Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map source: National Library of Scotland<\/a>. (1922) Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The map extract shows the houses, the arrow shows the approximate position of the photographer and the direction in which the photos were taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The well at Woodside, Bream in 1934<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Map source: National Library of Scotland<\/a>. (1922) Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charles Thomas at Woodside, Bream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Map source: National Library of Scotland<\/a>. (1922) Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dennis Lucas at Woodside, Bream, Gloucestershire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Map source: National Library of Scotland<\/a>. (1922) Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The two-house brick built extension (left) to the original stone built house (right) can be easily seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Houses at Woodside, Bream in 2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of the features in the earlier photos are still visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.
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Map source: National Library of Scotland<\/a>. (1922) Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some houses and people from Woodside, Bream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bream","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","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=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6597,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}