Quedgeley News Guest Book
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| Name: | Revd Paul Lanham |
| EMail: | judy@lanham.free-online.co.uk |
| Location: | Clifton, Bedfordshire |
| Comments: | I was brought up in the vast ancient Rectory down School Lane beside the church; my father Revd F.J.Lanham was Rector from 1947-1961 (Lanham Gardens was named after him). At the time Quedgeley was a village, and I had a near idyllic childhood playing in the fields during school holidays, endlessly watching boats on the canal at the Pilot Inn (before they built the oil terminal) and allowed to cycle anywhere for hours - no fears for our safety as children! I worked at 7MU for a few months before we went to Gloucester and I went to university. I married a Brockworth girl in 1968 and we have two very pro-Gloucestershire daughters. I am now a very active retired priest, having followed by father into the Church. I remember Quedgeley with enormous affection but have not been back for 50 years, preferring to remember it as it was (I have a number of snapshots taken with my Brownie box camera!). I seem to remember I was at Quedgeley School with Richard Cale sixty years ago. Happy memories! Reminded of Quedgeley by an advert for a new vicar in the Church Times today! |
| Name: | john sloan |
| EMail: | johnphysloan@yahoo.com |
| Location: | mill valley california usa |
| Comments: | Lived in Quedgeley in the early 1940's,at Vine Cottage Bristol Road the village store was run by John Cobb and his sister. Went to school with Juliet Beach,Norma Owl, Rita Narden,who lived at the Plough,just across the road,in front of the cottage was the village cobbler's shop his name was Mansfield. Fond, fond, memories! |
| Name: | tommy |
| EMail: | tommyjohnson1938@hotmail.co.uk |
| Location: | leeds |
| Comments: | hi I have just found the Quedgeley web site The photo of what was the plough pub takes me back over 50 years Between 1956-1959 I was an RAF driver .I drove a Queen Mary low loader taking loads out of RAF Quedgeley to various RAF camps. I and other drivers used to stay overnight at the plough. I think the landlord and lady were a mr and mrs Bayliss.Happy days for an 18 year old |
| Name: | Grant James |
| EMail: | grantjam@tiscali.co.uk |
| Location: | Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs |
| Comments: | I've recently discovered that my gt gt grandfather was a native of Quedgeley who found work with the GWR and moved to Shropshire in the 1850s. I'd very much welcome any info about the James family; I think that they may have originated in Elmore. Great e-mag btw. Cheers, Grant |
| Name: | Joy Tuckwell |
| EMail: | margaret.tuckwell@blueyonder.co. |
| Location: | Hardwicke |
| Comments: | Having spent most of my early life in Quedgeley, I love reading Quedgeley news whenever I can get hold of a copy. I know Richard Cale well and always interested in his articles, which usually bring back happy memories. My father was Owen Charles, the local postman, from1932 to 39 and then again after the war, from 1945 until 1958. |
| Name: | Mrs Caroline Meek |
| EMail: | caroline.meek1@btinternet.com |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | I would like to join a group of locals to start up Quedgeley Historical Society. Caroline Meek |
| Name: | Camilla Fisher |
| Location: | Storrington, West Sussex |
| Comments: | Hooray! Another article by Richard Cale. Please let's have some more; he has many interesting tales of old Quedgeley. |
| Name: | R.Thompson |
| EMail: | R.Thompson@gmx.at |
| Location: | Austria |
| Comments: | I´m looking for information photos etc.about the Ravenhill family,who also lived in Whaddon. 1700 - 1800.Can anyone help! |
| Name: | Myrna |
| EMail: | myrn-pete@hotmail.co.uk |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | I came across this wonderful little web site Quedgeley News by accident and found a fantastic photo of my childrens GGGGrandfather Richard Cale.Unfortunately I was unable to print a copy to show them and their father |
| Name: | Linzi Gwilt |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | I have found my auntie, thank you for displaying my appeal |
| Name: | Interested in redding |
| Location: | Australia |
| Comments: | I was just thinking because this is the homw town of Moto2 rider scott Redding that maybe you should start to promote more of him, as he needs more funding for the season! Maybe helping him out with a bit of cash or something. Be proud of the local boy. He's the one putting you on the map! |
| Name: | Karen Newcombe |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | I was born in 1970 and I lived in 55 Caravan, Cole Avenue. Apparently there were two caravan sites on Cole Avenue from 1967. Did anyone else live in one of the caravans? Does anyone remember them or have any pictures or information? Many thanks. |
| Name: | junemcleod@hotmail.com |
| Location: | N.B. Canada |
| Comments: | I used to live in Quedgeley and spent many happy times at Manor Farm |
| Name: | Camilla Fisher |
| Location: | Storrington, West Sussex |
| Comments: | Finally; an article by Richard Cale! He used to go to school with my Dad, Bryan Veal. |
| Name: | Linzi Gwilt |
| EMail: | amberlady2008@hotmail.co.uk |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | I am looking for my Auntie her name is Mary Leatherland. I lost my address book and can't remember her address. Auntie Mary lived in America for many years but returned to England about 16 years ago after the death of my uncle Peter Please contact me thank you |
| Name: | Sean Walker |
| Location: | USA |
| Comments: | Missing my Love Gail Bev in Quedgeley so very much!!! Want to be there with you soon!!!! |
| Name: | Sean J Walker |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | Counting down the day to come back to my Love Gail J in Gloucester!!!!!! |
| Name: | Sean Jerome Walker |
| EMail: | seanjwalkerjedi1@yahoo.com |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | PS....About the comment I made about loving a woman in Quedgeley named Gail who is a school teacher/administrator....and about loving Gloucester and England...forgot to say for those who care I am an American yank :)..And I love Gail and England!!!!! |
| Name: | Sean Jerome Walker |
| EMail: | seanjwalkerjedi1@yahoo.com |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | Spent two of the most wonderful weeks of my life in Quedgeley july/aug 09 with the woman of my life who is a teacher there(Gail). I cant wait to come back,I love her and Gloucester and England!!!!!! Thank you Quedgeley for the woman of my dreams!!!!!!! |
| Name: | Annie Driver |
| EMail: | anniedriver@googlemail.com |
| Location: | Lymington, Hants |
| Comments: | I;m trying to create my family tree and would be grateful for any local knowledge! My great-grandmother Rosa Taylor was a teacher at Quedgeley School in the 1920s and lived in 'the Hive'. Does anyone know if this house still exists or do you have any more information? |
| Name: | Lucy Mason |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | I've recently moved into the area and I have to say, I've found the Quedgeley news an absolute hive of information. Without this, we would have come unstuck!! Thanks QN. |
| Name: | Camilla Fisher |
| EMail: | camilla@thefishers.biz |
| Location: | West Sussex |
| Comments: | Well, I may not have read about my immediate relatives yet, but this month's article about Ken Mansfield has been fascinating. Ken's Aunty Ada married my Great Grand Uncle Arthur Veal. |
| Name: | Camilla Fisher |
| EMail: | camilla@thefishers.biz |
| Location: | West Sussex |
| Comments: | Every month I read Quedgeley News, hoping to see one of Richard Cale's wonderful tales of life in Quedgeley past. Every month I'm dissapointed. Please include some of Richard's stuff. He's been very helpful finding pictures of the Veal family that used to live in the village from the 1880's to the 1950's. He is a mine of information. |
| Name: | Zoe Taylor |
| Location: | Horsham, West Sussex |
| Comments: | We will be moving to Quedgeley next week, and have only been there once before to find a house and school. We are moving to be near family, which will be a big surprise as we have not told them yet. Your magazine and website has been great to find out what is on and where things are. So thank you for keeping it so well informed and hopefully our move will be easier now that we know more about Quedgeley. |
| Name: | Sue |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | I have lived in Quedgeley for 18 years now and read the Quedgeley News without fail every month. The team must work very hard to provide all the useful information. I was very interested in the history of Quedgeley on the site and wondered if a guide could be done (as if you don't have enough to do already!!!) telling us about the remaining buildings and what they were in the past. I read in one of your issues about the old post office being in a house down the Bristol Rd and would love to know which one it was, etc. |
| Name: | debby sainsbury |
| EMail: | malcolm.sainsbury@hotmail.co.uk |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | researching family tree grandfather from qued egley robert cole siblings florence thomas lillian herbert sidney father robert mother rebacca sherman ithink herbert died but had a daughter patricia my grandfather won the mm medal for bravery twice in ww1 the gloucesters.If anybody has any information .thanks |
| Name: | K.Giles (Mr Kev) |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | Just like to say the sites very informative locally,& thanks to the residents in the area who have helped my own business along the way |
| Name: | Tom |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | The mention of Prisoners of War at RAF Quedgely has cleared up where my father was "guarding" POWs during WW2. I knew he was at Quedgeley when I was born (1948) but always wondered where the POW camp was. Problem solved for my Family History! Thanks very much. |
| Name: | Mark |
| EMail: | m17rkj@yahoo.com |
| Location: | Calgary, Canada |
| Comments: | We have been away from Quedgeley for three months now but are keeping up to date on your wonderful website! |
| Name: | mia phillis |
| EMail: | miaphillips_4@hotmail.com |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | i think that thwe web site is cool and realy helpful |
| Name: | Angela Warwick |
| EMail: | angela.warwick@tesco.net |
| Location: | Frampton Cotterell |
| Comments: | I've been doing a family tree for my friend, whose great-grandmother was a long-time resident of Quedgeley. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy visiting the village and church, a chance email to the Quedgeley News asking if they had any info. on Annie Elizabeth Oliver (nee Ryder) led to a whole host of wonderful information and photos dropping through my letter box. Many thanks to a fantastic Editor, Sandra, and the wonderful Caroline Meek who generously gave so much of her time to photographing and collating information for me. |
| Name: | Caron Short |
| EMail: | short.brooks@ntlworld.com |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | Loved the site. I lived at Quedgeley House in the 1970's as a child, and went to the primary school. I have traced many of my grandmother's family - the Hoopers (corn dealers) Vallenders (farmers) and Arch family back to 1800 Quedegely. Would love info on The White House on the Bristol Road or Birch House. |
| Name: | Caroline Meek |
| EMail: | meek.quedgeley@tesco.net |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | Born in Quedgeley in 1936,servived the bombs in the second world war, married in Quedgeley Church over 50 years ago and still here. It can't be bad. Caroline Meek. |
| Name: | Richard Graham |
| EMail: | richard@richardgraham.org |
| Location: | Gloucester |
| Comments: | This is a brilliant local history and it would be wonderful if every village or ward in the city had one like it. Particularly interesting to anyone like me, once upon a time an RAF officer. Please can we put a preservation order on the Quegley News so that it never stops! Richard |
| Name: | Gary Stanton |
| EMail: | g19s@hotmail.co.uk |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Comments: | Born and bred Brummie, lived in Quedgely 6 months ago, due to work had to move back to Brum. Miss Quedgeley a lot so am coming back to live perm. with my fiancee and her two daughters, cant wait. Great Publication |
| Name: | peter moore |
| EMail: | pjdesignnz@yahoo.co.uk |
| Location: | Hamilton |
| Comments: | Interesting and well constructed website |
| Name: | Pothole in Australia |
| EMail: | pyewaket@westnet.com.au |
| Location: | Australia |
| Comments: | Comment: During the 1940s and 50s I spent many happy hours with my cousins at Manor Farm, got into strife a few times but we survived as did Manor Farm I remember when aunty Mary fell in the moat getting us kids polywogs. |
| Name: | Keith Newman-Petty |
| EMail: | TheNPs@Hotmail.com |
| Location: | Houston, Texas |
| Comments: | Keep up the good work gang, so i can keep up to date with whats going on in Quedgeley. |
| Name: | Peter |
| Location: | Toronto, Canada |
| Comments: | Being a old Quedgeleyite now working in Toronto, it's great to keep up with the news back home. You, then the Citizen are my links on the internet to life back home. Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | olive |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | Thank you from someone who has recently moved to the area and didnt know where the nearest garage,yoga class, and sports center were. But I do now! Keep up the fantastice work. |
| Name: | Gareth Lloyd |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | This site was very informative, I've known Trefor & Sandra for bloody years he is a great guy and I may owe him a drink or two Gareth |
| Name: | Heather Dimmell |
| EMail: | dimple@personainternet.com |
| Location: | Omemee, ON, Canada |
| Comments: | What a lovely spot to live in! I am looking for my family. Karen Pascoe lives in Quedgeley. If anyone in town sees this,please ask her to ither by phone.Maureen and Jack Chamberlain's phone number or by email |
| Name: | Sian |
| Location: | Fareham, Hampshire |
| Comments: | Lovely Website - Well Done to the Quedgeley News Team! |
| Name: | Alan Davies |
| EMail: | Alan22@AOL.com |
| Location: | Cheltenham |
| Comments: | The magazine gets better issue by issue |
| Name: | Martin |
| EMail: | martintudor@blueyonder.co.uk |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | Thanks to Quedgeley News for keeping me up to date with whats going on locally. |
| Name: | Terry |
| EMail: | Terry2@aol.co.uk |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | The history section is good cant wait untill the bit on the old RAF site is included |
| Name: | Maria |
| Location: | Southampton |
| Comments: | Web site is brilliant and brings back lots of memories! |
| Name: | Naomi |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | The local adverts are very handy, I found an excellent window-cleaner...thanks Quedgeley News!! |
| Name: | anne |
| Location: | Quedgeley |
| Comments: | The photographs are fantastic! Lets have more of them. |