IN your editorial (January 23 2009) you lament the building of some 400 unnecessary houses in Lydney.
They supply no need, either of employment or housing, and by all accounts will ruin Lydney itself. Why, then, is there no effective and sustained opposition to such unwanted developments?
Is there no political life in England at all? Or is it (as in the case of road tolls) that Foresters are simply mugs? – Gerald Morgan (Lydbrook School; English parliamentary party).
Mitcheldean mystery
SOME years ago the Review published a photograph which showed 41 schoolgirls. It was headed 'A Mitcheldean mystery' and showed schoolgirls aged about 7 or 8 and the caption "Mitcheldean 1906."
My mother Elsie Cristina Trigg would have been in the photograph. She was born 1899. Unfortunately her mother (maiden name Frances Elizabeth Cooper) died in childbirth. She had been married to Alfred Edwin Trigg and lived in The Stenders.
My question is: can anyone remember the photograph and name any of the girls? – H. A. Eden (bertie.eden@virgin.
net)