Forest of Dean in 1945. Archive film 93827

The Forest of Dean in wartime. Homefront in World War Two. Pigs on the road. Children playing. Forestry. Men use axes and saw to fell timber. Felling a tree. A forester uses a horse to drag felled timber from the forest. Very large logs on a horse drawn truck. The Forest of Dean sawmills. A steam driven crane lifting timber. Speech House in the heart of the forest. A reference to it still being a courthouse. Interiors showing beautiful wood. A Cathedral in the Forest of Dean. St Briavels. Church and a grave memorial of a freeman of the forest. Briavel coalmine. The River Severn and the ferry to Somerset which will save us fifty miles. A United States army jeep driving onto the ferry. The Aust Ferry