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Dinedor history is a voyage of discovery

9/12/2014

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Dinedor and Rotherwas Explored (£12.95 Logaston Press) produced by the Dinedor Heritage Group is a voyage of discovery.  A comprehensive, informative and well-researched book, revealing so much hidden history, from the Neolithic “ribbon” to the WW2 Dinedor Secret Army Patrol with their accounts of what they would do if the Germans landed.

There are poignant stories, one of which is Ken Hursey’s, aged 16, who was the sole survivor of a second bomb that, in 1942, ricocheted off the sheds of the Rotherwas Munitions Factory and hitting Moorlands, killing all members of his family.

A chapter is devoted to the big estate, Rotherwas House, mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but of which very little remains today. The Bodenham family owned the estate around middle of 15th century and did so for another 450 years.

Some fascinating facts and figures are listed in A Hundred Years of Dinedor Occupations 1851 – 1951 – wheelwrights, millers, coopers, carpenters, shoe and nail makers, all of whom lived in Dinedor and carried out their occupations from their homes.

Julie Orton-Davies’ chapter on Rotherwas  Munitions Factory tells the stories of the Canary Girls, so called as the TNT and picric acid turned their hands and hair yellow.  The women, 6,000 of them at the peak of WW1, came from all over the British Isles.

Much has been explored in this excellent publication and wets the appetite  to explore even more on foot or bicycle across the Greenway  Bridge, along the cycle path, passing the eerie remains  of the munitions buildings  and on to discover the gem of Rotherwas  Chapel.

Review: Eileen Klotz
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