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They adored animals but hated kidsGeorge and Dorcas Juggins lived along Ashmeads. I grew up knowing George and Dorcas; they adored animals but they hated kids. If I was to go along and see her she'd say, 'Eh, don't you bring those bloody kids in…

David Collins (Bussage)I remember as a schoolboy at Chalford Hill School hearing about the German plane which crashed over at France Lynch, a Junkers 88. Two of us went over (we should have been on our way home from school), and eventually we found…

George and Dorcas Juggin became a legend in their lifetime, with a fame extending far beyond the Stroud valleys in which they lived: it can truly be said that there can never again be any like them. They lived in a ruinous cottage near Oakridge -…

It was in August 1956 that I began my first visit to Far Oakridge, by train from Tavistock North Station, Devon on the 8.59am steam train to Exeter St Davids, the first of 4 changes. Then on to Bristol Temple Meads where I was met by John, from there…

Oakridge Lynch from the 1920'sReminiscences of Vice Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly K.B.E., C.B. I was in the Pacific at the time but I am told that in 1945 my father, Major R. F. Le Bailly, then aged 79, cast his vote for Churchill at Far Oakridge,…