Alfred Harris lived in the Forest of Dean villages of Whitecroft
and Bream all his life, born on December15th 1839 he died in the early 1920's
and left a journal of local happenings, births, marriages and deaths were
recorded, along with many other news items and has provided invaluable information
for both the local and family historians. He was also a man who enjoyed reading,
references to global news points to the fact that this man was alert not only
to matters close to home, but those much further afield.
Alfred,
for a man who probably finished schooling at an early age, was forward thinking,
one sentence in his journal states, "He that hates learning is a fool and a
dunce." Page numbers of favourite bible stories are noted along with his
shopping lists and his beer order was ever present.
Note! The pages within the book are loose
and as Alfred seemed to use all available spaces, it is impossible to
ascertain the correct order in which they once were.
