Rodborough, Common, The Bear Hotel 1925
Photo ref:
77575
Photo ref:
77575
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Taken from a position a little further along the hillside from No 62683, this photograph shows the Bear Inn soon after its extension was completed. Just visible on the left is the roof of Beech Cottage, by 1927 owned by Sidney Howard Smith. The writer's aunt was for some years resident in Beech Cottage as Smith's cook-housekeeper.
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A Selection of Memories from Rodborough
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Rodborough
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I was born in Stroud and lived in Cashesgreen and Paganhill until I was 11 when the family moved to Hertfordshire. My aunt lived at Minchinhampton in a house my sister now owns. As children we remember making the then very slow journey from Cashedgreen up Rodborough Hill past the Fort and along the common, waving at the big bear outside the pub and then onto our aunt's house for a very merry Christmas Eve ...see more
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