South Cotswold Ramblers

A final check with Heather and Mike is ready to go

Leaving Bulls Cross we head downhill towards Trillgate

Past a house with a dovecot

And down a slippery slope following like sheep

Which also follow each other

Up the other side, another slippery slope

Then a narrow road where we take to the grass verge to avoid the postman

A stop for Mike to read from Cider with Rosie. "The little Jim Fern, sitting beside me, looks up from his ruined pages. "Ain't you a good scholar! You and your Jack. I wish I was a good scholar like thee." He gives me a sad,adoring look, and I begin to feel much better."

Little Jim's signature on his walk page, and his advert for guiding people around the Slad Valley (with personal narrative)

Our first walks book (1995).

Selsley Common October 1995 on our book launch. "Little" Jim is on the right.

Then a brief encounter with race horses from the nearby Tom George yard

Before we pass the cottages used in Cider with Rosie by the BBC in the 1970s

An old farmhouse

Looking down into the Dillay Valley

Crossing the stream on some wooden sleepers

Fuzzy picture from 1995 - New footbridge and stile in distance - erected after Group's request. Les Woollerton, group footpath sec at the time. Before picture ....

... and After! Very well used footbridge with a hand rail

A short climb uphill

With views back up the valley

A reminder that we are now on the Laurie Lee Wildlife Walk

As we follow a muddy woodland track

Looking over the valley at the racing yard

Round a small green

Bringing us to another muddy track

On to Swifts Hill and more words from Mike, including an extract from Cider with Rosie

... the famous book

Views over to Slad School, Pub and Church

And down into the valley

Now heading downhill

An old Austin car bringing back memories - for some

As our back markers follow us down the road

Round a pond below Elcombe

Mistletoe flourishing in the apple trees

Now heading towards Steanbridge

Past Jones' pond

A steep climb through Slad

Past the War Memorial

On uphill

And back through the woods to Bulls Cross