Category: Talks we have delivered on local subjects
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Iron and Coal
Members of The Narth Gardening Club experienced something very different from flowers and shrubs when they invited a speaker from the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley Tour guides to deliver a talk on Iron and Coal in the Forest of Dean. The enormous, wide-ranging topic was whittled down to cover some history, some VIP’s, […]
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Talk for Minchinhampton Gardening Club
We ventured across the river Severn to give a talk to the members of Minchinhampton Gardening Club. In fact, the River Severn was part of the topic! The talk is called “A Tale of Two Rivers: the Savage Severn and the Wistful Wye“. The Forest of Dean is hugged on both sides by the two great […]
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Ghostly tales in the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley!
Members of Sutton St. Nicholas Women’s Institute in Herefordshire were enthralled by a talk on “The Mysterious Forest — Spooky tales from the Dean & Wye“. The speaker chose from a treasure trove of ghostly tales. There are at least two extremely haunted buildings — Littledean or Dean Hall, and St. Briavel’s Castle — which […]