MUSKET FIRE filled the air in Coleford at the weekend in an event that marked a bloody day in the town's history. Some 600 members of the Sealed Knot Civil War society paraded through the town from Newland Street on Saturday, just as the Royalist army had done on February 20, 1643, when a small band of local Foresters formed a militia fight the 2,000 soldiers marching through Coleford, en-route from Raglan to make an attack Gloucester. As the parade circled the central island in Coleford, and the town's clock town chimed 11 o'clock, the Civil War reenactors let off a volley of gunfire.

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