THE FW Harvey Society has been commissioned to produce 20 pictures illustrating the life and work of the Gloucestershire poet FW Harvey to be hung in the Apple Tree Inn on the A48 at Minsterworth.

The society says: "These historic pictures have now been hung in the refurbished main dining room in the restaurant and are there for the enjoyment and information of diners.

"Will Harvey spent his formative years in Minsterworth and lived across the road from the Apple Tree Inn at The Redlands, a house familiar to many Foresters passing along the A48 to Gloucester. Here in the years before the First World War the Harvey family entertained Ivor Gurney and Herbert Howells, two other great talents to emerge from this era. The building now known as the Apple Tree Inn then formed part of the estate of the Harvey household and only became a public house many years later."

Steve Cooper, archivist and photographer who produced the picture said: "The Harveys were a prominent Gloucestershire family and owned a lot of property around Minsterworth and Churcham. The house at Redlands and what is now the Apple Tree Inn were part of a rural idyll where young Will Harvey grew up. Many of his poems celebrate the orchards, river and natural history of Minsterworth."

•The FW Harvey Society, Herbert Howells Society and Ivor Gurney Society are holding a joint event at King's School Gloucester on November 5, 2011 to celebrate the lives and mutual inspiration that came out of their friendship entitled 'The Gifted Sons of the Severn'.

For information contact  Marie Fraser Griffiths 01594 843107 or visit http://www.fwharveysociety.co.uk">www.fwharveysociety.co.uk.