On Monday I drove the short 4 miles to the famous Slad Valley. It's only famous if you have read the book "Cider with Rosie", written by Laurie Lee, English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who lived and died in the village of Slad.
The main picture is the village church where he is buried and his gravestone was just outside the church doors. The lower picture was his favourite pub The Woolpack where he was often found with his books. Perhaps he also had a cider here with Rosie his friend from childhood.
When I spoke to my Brother, who was a local policeman in another village nearby, he remembers Rosie in her later years and said she used to walk across a field from her home to collect her post.
The postman often gave her a lift to a pub in my brother village for lunch, then my brother would give her a lift home to her isolated cottage in his police car. She still had to walk back across the field to her cottage as there was no road or path to her front door.
