Crown Inn Hawthorns

Drybrook

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This photo of the Crown Inn, Hawthorns comes from a privately published book of memoirs written by my grandmother's uncle, Thomas Rogers Gammage. The books title is "Starting Below Scratch," written in 1954 and published in 1955.

Tom Gamage was born at the Inn
To quote from Chapter 1,

I, Tom Gamage, was born on the tenth day of June, in 1874. There is no doubt that the country of my birth was England, but if you ask me in what county I cannot tell; the birth certificate mentions both Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, for the imaginary line separating the two runs right through the upper right front corner room on the second floor of the Crown Inn where I first drew independent breath. ........ It is certain, though, that the Crown Inn still stands in Hawthorn, not far from the hamlet of Cinderford, in the Forest of Dean.

(Photo supplied by Shari)