MADAM, YOU may recall that I wrote a few months ago asking for memories and photos of the railways around Ross.
For many people before the lines were scrapped in the 1960s, the trains between Gloucester, Hereford and Monmouth played a significant part in their lives in a variety of ways. I was more interested in the personal stories rather than facts about engines or timetables, and I had some good replies, with stories and photos that I have now collected and given to the Ross Heritage Centre.
If anyone else would like to add any personal stories of their own or that they have been told by older friends or members of the family, I'm sure Mary Stinchcombe would welcome them and add them to the archive.
History is not so much about dates and politics as about the day-to-day lives of ordinary people, their work and their fun, their loves and their friends, their tears and their joys. These stories need to be preserved, or they simply disappear.
Nigel Graham, Cheltenham