{"id":2411,"date":"2015-12-01T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2015-12-01T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:08:21","slug":"lydney-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"Lydney Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

After leaving Brecon we headed north towards the city of Gloucester where we were to spend the night before parting company. \u00a0On the way we diverted to an old harbour on the Severn Estuary. \u00a0It was tucked behind a semi industrial area and apparently its importance extends from\u00a0Roman times \u00a0http:\/\/www.wyedeantourism.co.uk\/discover\/all\/i-4388-Lydney_Harbour. \u00a0 This site has more information than most people would want to read http:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/vch\/glos\/vol5\/pp46-84. \u00a0It seemed like recent work had been done around flood mitigation and going by the number of boats in the canal recreational boating is important.<\/p>\n

\"Boats<\/a>

Boats tied up on the canal<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lock<\/a>

Lock devoid of water<\/p><\/div>\n

\"View<\/a>

View of the harbour and also the old gas light<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Some<\/a>

Some laid up boats near the clubhouse and the water<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Light<\/a>

Light falling on the eastern side of the Severn. Ancestors traced so far have come from that side of the Severn<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Panoramic<\/a>

Panoramic view to the north and eastern side of the Severn. Pity about the pole<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Panoramic<\/a>

Panoramic view of the eastern and southern side of the Severn<\/p><\/div>\n

We then returned to the car and continued for about another 50 km to Gloucester where we stayed at the hotel near the station. \u00a0The next day son and partner headed north for an appointment and I settled in for a week of sightseeing, trawling through \u00a0archives and visiting another site of ancestral origin just outside the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After leaving Brecon we headed north towards the city of Gloucester where we were to spend the night before parting company. \u00a0On the way we diverted to an old harbour on the Severn Estuary. \u00a0It was tucked behind a semi industrial area and apparently its importance extends from\u00a0Roman times \u00a0http:\/\/www.wyedeantourism.co.uk\/discover\/all\/i-4388-Lydney_Harbour. \u00a0 This site has more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[86,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history","category-lydney-harbour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}