In the Gloucestershire village of Slad, near Stroud, the cottage still ... down the lane past the squire's house with its Georgian façade, where Laurie and his friends would go carol-singing ...

Betty still lives locally in Stroud. She always hated Laurie for telling that lie about ... with tiger-skins of sunlight". The T-shaped house was originally a Tudor manor house but by 1919 it ...

Laurie Lee was born in Stroud in 1914. + He moved to Slad, with his family when he was three after his father. + Laurie Lee's poems are generally about the English countryside and proved only ...