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  1. Part Two: The General Strike and the miners' lock-out. I recently visited Come and Play ...

    One of the best parts of being your Member of Parliament is getting out across the Forest of Dean and meeting so many residents, businesses, schools and community organisations.#MattBishop #Westminster #ForestofDean #Parliament #Support
    The View from Westminster with Matt Bishop MP

  2. 100 years ago the 1926 General Strike was about to end in the events have been argued over ever since. Nigel Costley, Editor of the New Regard, ...

    100 years ago the 1926 General Strike was about to end in the events have been argued over ever since. Nigel Costley, Editor of the New Regard, the journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society describes what happened and why.#Cinderford #ForestofDean #SpeechHouse #Solidarity #Strike #ForestofDeanLocalHistorySociety
    Part Two: The General Strike and the miners’ lock-out

  3. You would not believe how difficult these photos were – the Swan was feeding and constantly dipping into the water. Moving target...! 😆

    #sjAshctoftsPhotos #ForestOfDean #Swan #CannopPonds

    © Simon J Ashcroft, 2025; CC-BY-NC-ND
    These photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit
    creativecommons.org/licenses/b.

  4. You would not believe how difficult these photos were – the Swan was feeding and constantly dipping into the water. Moving target...! 😆

    #sjAshctoftsPhotos #ForestOfDean #Swan #CannopPonds

    © Simon J Ashcroft, 2025; CC-BY-NC-ND
    These photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit
    creativecommons.org/licenses/b.

  5. Moseley Green 1988 #BOK #ForestOfDean. The eastern part was covered by the 1973 Oakenhill Wood map of variable scale infamy. #OldOrienteeringMaps #OMaps #Orienteering

  6. I called in at RSPB Nagshead yesterday and saw no wildflowers there at all. Not one. But I had more luck elsewhere in Parkend while stopping to get some food. This one looks to be Barren Strawberry. #WildflowerHour #ForestOfDean #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

  7. I called in at RSPB Nagshead yesterday and saw no wildflowers there at all. Not one. But I had more luck elsewhere in Parkend while stopping to get some food. This one looks to be Barren Strawberry. #WildflowerHour #ForestOfDean #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

  8. Four small and easily-overlooked flowers from town roadsides in the #ForestOfDean yesterday (Lydney and Parkend). Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Field Forgetmenot, Hairy Bittercress and Thale Cress. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

  9. Four small and easily-overlooked flowers from town roadsides in the #ForestOfDean yesterday (Lydney and Parkend). Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Field Forgetmenot, Hairy Bittercress and Thale Cress. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

  10. We were asked for #GardenEscapes this week for #WildflowerHour. Lots of escaped Primroses in the #ForestOfDean yesterday, growing in streets near houses that had them planted in their gardens. This one at the old #Lydney Town station looks to be a garden variety with its deeper colour. #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers

  11. We were asked for #GardenEscapes this week for #WildflowerHour. Lots of escaped Primroses in the #ForestOfDean yesterday, growing in streets near houses that had them planted in their gardens. This one at the old #Lydney Town station looks to be a garden variety with its deeper colour. #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers

  12. Oakenhill and Churchill 1973. A very old map to encounter in 1978. Infamous for several mistakes with the scale - the 1:16666 was not the only one. #NGOC #OldOrienteeringMap #OMap #ForestOfDean
    Occasionally appears at the western end of a Danby Lodge map
    www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#53

    geograph.org.uk/photo/6704293

  13. Soudley Ponds 1977. The original event was cancelled after a very heavy snowfall (I was snowed in in Somerset for 4 days). No boar then. #ForestOfDean #NGOC #OldOrienteeringMap #OMap
    www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3029114
    www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#186

  14. A 14 mile Cinderford circular today, wandering in the hills on the eastern edge of the Forest of Dean, via Soudley, Little Dean and Edgehills, taking in five hills, one mossy trig, and two hillforts, Soudley Camp and Welshbury. The latter is an absolute gem, a well preserved multivallate woodland treasure.

    #HotHillfortSummer #ForestOfDean #Gloucestershire #IronAge #hillfort #hills #OrdnanceSurvey

  15. Off to the Forest of Dean for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering; The Long Stone near Staunton.

    It's right next to a busy road, but if you can block that out it's a really lovely, tapering 7 foot tall stone in a beautiful woodland setting. (Portrait, needs a click)

    In folklore, if you prick the stone with a pin at the stroke of midnight, it will bleed.

    Visited October 2010.

    #BronzeAge #StandingStone #Gloucestershire #ForestOfDean #Folklore