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Dursley Lantern 2023
Contents:
Mary Anne Wall, nee Loveday (1800-1880)
A Look Back at the Newspapers
Education in Cam and Dursley
The Story behind Two World War II Gas Masks
The Rise and Fall in the Fortunes of Jacobs House
Apprenticeship at R.A. Lister & Co. Ltd, 1961 to 1966
A Journey Through Time, The History of Cam Mills from 1522
A Tribute to Alberto Jorge 'Joe' Morris
The Cam Ploughman, 'Ploughing on a Sunday'
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2022
Contents:
From Wales to Cam - A Blacksmith's Life Story
Memories of Matt Welsh and his contribution to Cam and Dursley
Royal Artillery at Dursley, 1939-1940
Early Inhabitants of Dursley - A Conjecture
A Study of Two Views of Cam Station
Dursley, 17th Century Piracy and the Stockwell Millions
Dursley Clothiers and their Mills, 1450-1600
Notes on the Exell Family
Jessamine House - A Georgian Gem or an Awful Eyesore?
The Foundation of the Dursley Union Workhouse
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2021
Contents:
Woodmancote Court - A House Through Time
Early Mawdsley's DC Generator Discovered 'Down-Under'
The Early Workhouse in Dursley
Staying in Tune - The Brass Bands of Dursley
Robert Browning Lister (1894-1975)
Stone Stiles around Cam and Beyond
The Stinchcombe Heritage Trail - A Legacy of Lockdown
Friends at Christmas
A Look Back at the Newspapers
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2020
Contents:
Starting Work at Cam Mills - The First Six Months
A Shopping Trip in Parsonage Street in 1841
Early Childhood and Our Move to Dursley
Memories of School Days at Dursley Grammar School
A Look Back at the Newspapers
Take a Step Back in Time to Saxon Dursley
Memories of Growing Up in Cam and Dursley
Tom Clarke, Railway Ganger
B.G.A.S. Transactions from 1952 to 2008
My Memories of Cam
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2019
Contents:
Lady Helena Gleichen OBE (1873 - 1947)
A Wartime Experience - Memoirs of an American in Dursley
A Look Back at the Newspapers - A lucky Escape for the Town Hall
Notes on the Manor of Cam
Daniels (Cam) Ltd, Fibreboard Manufacturers
A Curious Tale from 17th Century Dursley
A Visit to Dursley in 1886 - The Bristol and Gloucs. Arch. Society Comes to Town
A Chance Encounter - From Dursley to a Life in the USA
Dursley Gardeners
A4, 40 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2018
Contents:
A Plaque to Commemorate R.A. Lister & Co. Ltd
Richard Hames Younghusband - A Flying Life and a Brief Encounter with Dursley
Memories of my Early Life in Dursley
A Visit to Dursley - A Reprint from an article in Shireways
Betty Seabrook - My Time in Dursley and Cam
Early Recollections of the Printing Trade in Dursley
A Look Back at the Newspapers - A Mixed Bag of Local Stories
A Perspective on the Local Area and Population in 1851
Of Coins and Tokens
Looking Back at the Browns - Tales of a Coaley Family
The Spanish Flu
A4, 40 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2017
Contents:
David Evans - Recollections of my life in Dursley
From Coffee Tavern to Cinema
A Projectionist at the Regal Cinema
...also, Doris Mary Wyatt
A Look Back at the Newspapers - Trading in the Town
Memories of a Giant - Recollections of one man's time at Bymacks
The Story of My Life - Growing Up in Dursley
Revd George Adsley Piper - Cam's Chaplain in the First World War
All Change! - Site of the Bell & Castle Hotel
A4, 40 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2016
Contents:
Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic
The Summers of 1975 and 1976 and the 16 Month Drought
Dursley and the Tent Methodists
Dick Barton - Special Agent
A Face from the Past
Before and After Mervyn
Dennis Haddrell and The Lions Club International
The Twemlow Trust - A Living Legacy
'Jack' Johnson and the Charfield Railway Crash of 1928
A4, 40 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2015
Contents:
Memories of World War Two
I Remember the Winterbotham Memorial Gardens
Grief and Gratitude - WW1 Memorials in the Dursley Area
The Purnells and a Ghost Story
Dick King of Cam - An Epic Ride
In Memoriam - A tribute to Mary Clark
A Christmas Letter from Dursley - December 1915
The Old Bell Hotel, Dursley
William Tyndale 1494-1536
Reporting on the Weather - A Look Back through the Newspapers
Basil Woodward - Prisoner of War
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2014
Contents:
Mary Clark - Reflections on Moving to Dursley
Dursley - Ivor Gurney and Shakespeare
The Postman's Snuffbox
Some Dates in the History of Dursley
Knight of the Shire Elections, 1867
One Way Ticket to Dursley
Reminiscences of Dursley and Cam
Cam's Welcome House
Snowball the War Horse
Water Supply in the Dursley Area, 1890-1974
A Schoolboy's View of World War Two
The Dursley Mummers are out tonight
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2013
Contents:
Lionel Ayliffe, 1917-2013 - A Tribute
Happy New Year - Now That's What You Call a Celebration
The Little Lighter called Cam
Reverend Norman Crossman of Lower Cam
Buses in Dursley
Dursley Secondary School's 'HMS Pinafore'
Dursley Church Clock
Dursley Ladies in the News
A Budding Genius
Visit of Pedersen Cyclists, 19th - 22nd September 2013
Every Step a Memory - Wartime Childhood Memories from the Dursley Area
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2012
Contents:
Miss Joan Kingham - Memories of a Wonderful Life
Church Bellringing in Dursley
A Brief History of Travel and Transportation in the Dursley Area
The Boy Racers of 1908
Tree Planting for the Coronation of King George VI
Children’s Saturday Morning Cinema Club
The Vizards of Dursley
A4, 44 pages - £5 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2011
Contents:
Notes from the Past, Memories of Dursley's History
Edmund Woodward and One Tree Hill
The Tale of a Tower - Fact or Fiction
My Life Story
A Look at Dursley’s Listed Buildings
News from the Parish
The Hurndalls of Dursley
An Ingenious Town
Sporting Days in Dursley and Cam
Memories of Cam Peak
A4, 40 pages - £4 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2010
Contents:
A Dursley Milkman's Day
Reminiscences of Dursley Parish Church Choir, 1943-1952
Charles Lister, CBE JP, 1872-1965
The Story of Allastair and Hilda
The International Friendship League - Dursley Branch
More on the Adoption of HMS Trident in 1942
The Rise and Fall of the Severn Railway Bridge
Wartime Rationing, 1939-1945
Further Memories from Berkeley Road
WW1 Changed Dursley Forever
19th Century Crime in Dursley
A4, 40 pages - £4 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2009
Contents:
William and Sarah Harrold of Dursley
Sharpness and D-Day
Dursley's Old Time Constable
Mikael and Me
Captain George Augustus Graham and Rednock
News from the Parish
Industrial Transport - A Pictorial View
100 Years Not Out
The Hopton Oak
An Old Gloucestershire Lantern
A4, 44 pages - £4 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2008
Contents:
The Dursley Field Gun
Pages of the Past
Memories of Kingshill Road in World War II
News from the Parish
The Saga of Dursley Swimming Pool
Make Pumps Fifteen!
Memories of the 'Prince of Wales' and Berkeley Road
The Dursley Saddlers
Forgotten - Dursley's 'Saint George'
Draycott Mill, Cam - A Pictorial View
Reminiscence of the 41st
A4, 44 pages - £4 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2007
Contents:
King’s Hill
Dursley Parish Church
Memories of Dursley and Cam
Cold War Cam and Dursley
A Memory of Castle Farm
Dursley Town Centre Newsagents
HMS Dursley Galley
One Lamp Cam
Cam - Then and Now
Turnpike Trusts in the Dursley Area
A4, 44 pages - £4 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2006
Contents:
Dursley goes International
The Stiff Families of Dursley and Cam
Memories of Life in Lister’s Foundry 70 Years Ago
A Boat named Dursley
The Curate and the Battle of the Balls
A Tour of Dursley in 1883
Dursley's Adopted Warship - HMS Trident
The Bailiffs of Dursley
The Summer of 1976 Remembered
'Almost a Centenarian' - Ignatius Dark and the Cam National School
A4, 44 pages - £4 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2005
Contents:
Rope Making in Dursley
Aircraft Down! Tales of Crashes in Cam and Dursley
The Fire Bell on Dursley Town Hall
Dursley - Then and Now
Coal Gas in Dursley
A Look through the Log Books - School Life in late Victorian Days
Dursley Lanterns
The Gazette - Part of the Community
The Past in Pictures - Station Road, Cam
The Curious Case of John Venn
Night Out for Ninepence - Memories of Picturegoing in Dursley
A4, 40 pages - £4 + P&P |
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Dursley Lantern 2004
Contents:
Cruelty at Dursley Union Workhouse
The Rangers House
Racing Horses on Stinchcombe Hill
The War Memorial Gates and the Story of Dursley's VC
Early Advertising in Dursley
Destination Dursley - Wartime Evacuation to a Cotswold Town
Climbing Boys
Temperance in Cam and Dursley
Reminiscences of Dursley and Cam
A4, 32 pages - £4 + P&P |
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