My most recent posts:
Steanbridge Stable Block – Grade II listing
1941 The Rev. Cyril Hodson 10th Anniversary
1907 Marriage of Miss Rosaline Abell
1906 Obstructions on the Highway
1899 An eth-oxo limelight optical lantern lecture
A Grade II Listed Telephone Kiosk
1904 Woolpack Licensee Summoned
1905 Woolpack Licensee Summoned (again!)
1941 Death of Dick Hill – a Gloucestershire Hussar
Popular Names in Slad in the 19th Century
Occupations in Slad in the 19th Century
Steanbridge House Grade II Listing
Old Photo of the Woolpack & Slad School
1941 “The Knapp” Furniture Sale
1919 Slad Murder – Police Poster
History of the Cloth Trade – Part 5
History of the Cloth Trade – Part 4
History of the Cloth Trade – Part 3
History of the Cloth Trade – Part 2
Steanbridge Lake on an Autumn morning
1941 A Poem by Frank Mansell “To The Home Guard”
A Footnote to the 1919 Slad Murder
1941 Death of Mr. J. H. Jones (the squire’s brother)
1941 Vatch Man’s Death in Gasholder Pit
History of the Cloth Trade – Part 1
Graffiti in the Builder’s Stable
1901 Sale of Steanbridge Estate
Volume 2 1919-1940 now on sale
1923 Slad Hut Redecoration Estimate
1936 Failed to stop – a Common Practice
1919 Albert Birt, Murder Victim, R.A.F. Record
1940 Comforts Fund of the Troops
Spring Cottages, The Vatch, through time
1920 View from the War Memorial
Volume 1 (1850 – 1918) now on sale
1875 Grave of William Lendon, Blacksmith
1940 Steanbridge House Furniture Sale
1940 Marriage of Mr Blackwell and Miss Harrod
1851 Slad Mill Clothing Machinery Sale
1870 Primitive Methodist Chapel meeting
1870 Illegal Fishing at Steanbridge House
1869 Thomas Merrett – a Bankrupt
1869 Thomas Merrett – an Innkeeper Charged with Arson
1867 Dinner at the Vatch Mills
1867 Opening of Slad Independent Chapel
1867 Breaking into a Father’s House (to steal a side of bacon)
1867 To Architects and Builders
1863 Appeal against Poor Rates
1863 Rifle Shooting Ground Alcohol Licence
1866 Houses for sale by auction
1863 Fatal Accident at Slad Mill. Inquest held at the Barley Mow
1862 Damage to the Rifle Butts
1862 Public House licences – The Rifleman’s Arms to provide stables for the riflemen
1862 Vatch Mills Mechanics’ Institute
1861 Steanbridge Lower Mill to let
1861 Swift’s Hill Annual Shooting Meeting
1861 Down Farm – sale of livestock
1860 Tranter’s Hill (now Laurie Lee) Wood – sale of trees
1934 Drinking after Hours at the Star Inn
1860 Vatch Mills Clothing Machinery Sale
1859 Slad Rectory Auction Sale
1859 Funeral of Rev. John Colborne
1921 Tea and Public Meeting at Scrubbs
1858 Valuable Mills (Vatch Mills) and property for sale
1886 Assaulted near Vatch Mills
1893 Grave of John Charles Collins
1857 Three dirty boys steal a mare
1857 Three Cottages to be sold
1857 Knapp Farm Live Stock & Effects Sale
1857 The Slad Estate for sale by Auction
1856 Auction Sale at the Slad House
1898 Suicide of Woolpack Landlord
1900 The Woolpack Inn for sale
1855 Auction at the Vatch Mills
1854 Powerful Water Mill to let
1854 Stealing lead from the Slad Mills
1854 Cholera – from a Slad hare
1939 Motor Cycle Crash at Slad
1939 Slad brothers killed in a motor-cycle accident
1939 Left Horse and Cart Unattended
1939 Saved Secrets from Enemy (Ernest Fern – father of “Little Jim” in Cider with Rosie)
1939 Heavy Penalty for Slad Farmer – milk deficient in fat
War Memorial Photographs – circa 1919 vs 2019
Memorial Lane Photographs – circa 1919 vs 2019
1939 New Water Rates – E.W. Crosby protests!
2019 The grannies’ house is up for sale
1939 Death of Elizabeth Hicks (Recreation House)
1919 Albert Birt’s grave in Sheepscombe
1871 Adjourned Beerhouse Case (The Abbey Inn)
1871 Stealing Eggs / Cowardly Assault
1901 Map showing area around Old House
1920 Profile of Samuel Gilbert Jones – “The Squire” in Cider with Rosie
1875 Vatch Mills workers and the saga of the working week
1897 The grave of Albert Gardner, who was killed by the fall of the Vatch Mills chimney stack
1901 Map – Vatch Mills demolished
1938 A Dance at The Hut – Mr L. Lee supplies the music
1919 Peace Celebrations – with Laurie Lee as “John Bull”, and Rosie Green as “Peace”
1927 The Wedding of Marjorie Lee
1927 The Wedding of Phyllis Lee
1873 Congregational Church Sunday School
1873 Stealing money at Furner’s Farm
1915 Frances Nemariah Joan Lee
1873 Night Marauding at the Slad
1873 Jealousy at the Vatch Mills
1922 A woman found drowned at Slad (Laurie Lee’s “Miss Flynn” in Cider with Rosie)
1937 Death of Mrs Gardner, whose husband was killed by the fall of the Vatch Mills chimney in 1897
1937 Mrs E. Birt found dead in bed
1916 Death of Lionel D. (Jack) Brown
Aged Slad Couple’s Deaths – updated
War Memorial inscription for Jack Brown
Grave of Hubert Twinning – photo
1874 Accident at the Vatch Mills
Grave of Samuel Gilbert Jones – photo
Woolpack Landlords by John Ball 2009
Down Memory Lane on the Slad Valley Garden Trail in 1985
Memories of Slad by Mrs D. Nipper 1988
A History of Slad in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
A Short History of Slad Church & School
1874 The Abbey Inn, Slad – transfer of licence
1888 A Trivial Case of Assault
1928 New hilltop burial ground for Slad – consecration by the Bishop
1874 The Whitsuntide Treat – were the Liberals excluded?
1874 A Farmyard Fire (caused by a boy playing with matches)
1881 Map showing Church Caretaker’s cottage, which was demolished to provide more burial space
1893 The Broken Pledge – (temptation in the hayfield!)
1922 Slad Cricket Club – Photo
1910 Death of Mrs R. J. Lee (Reg Lee’s first wife)
1958 W.I. History – Contributors
1895 Hob in the Lantern, or Will o’ the Wisp
1930 Departure of School Teachers
1929 Affiliation order – failure to pay – committed to prison.
1911 The Census showing Elizabeth Waldron at Bank Cottages, Slad.
1932 The Death of Mrs Elizabeth Waldron (Granny Wallon in “Cider with Rosie”).
1925 The Death of Elizabeth Terrell (Granny Trill in “Cider with Rosie”).
1936 Aged Slad Couple’s Deaths (and how Laurie Lee used this story in “Cider with Rosie”)
1958 Slad Women’s Institute “The Story of Our Village in Living Memory”
1851 Teetotal Meeting at the Vatch
1897 Killed by the fall of a chimney stack at Vatch Mills
1932 Slad Cricket Club is reborn – contact Laurie Lee for fixtures
1912 Recreation Room social evening
1901 Beware – the Council Inspector of Nuisances might call!
1926 The Bird & Tree Festival – Laurie Lee wins a prize for his essay
1911 Marriage of Reg Lee to Annie Light
1917 Reg Lee’s transfer to the West Kent Regiment
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Stories from Slad 