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Monthly Photographs
2007
Photo of the
month Each month a picture will be displayed from our extensive collection
(George Berry Collection) or from friends of the
WLHG. If you have
any memories of the places or people in the photographs please e-mail us and
tell us. Alternatively, if you have any photographs and would be willing
for them to appear here, please send them and I will oblige.
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November |
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This
picture shows St. Martins Church, Hodthorpe football team of 1910/11.
4th from the left is Mathew Lee. His Grandson Mel Holdsworth sent
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October |
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Vaults Hotel (now
Holmfield Arms) from over a stone wall on Butt Hill. Men on the
road...seem to be heading towards the Pit.
Yvonne Trachy(nee Cross)
I thought it was in Station Road, near the
Vaults Hotel, and near the site of the old Whitwell Kinema It seems as
if there was a heavy fall of snow before the picture was taken
Jim Buckingham |
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August |
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Looks to me to be on the High Hill..and
judging by the dress maybe early 1900`s
Yvonne Trachy(nee Cross) |
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July |
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A fine gathering of folk. Mainly
WI members. Who are they and what year?
The rector there is my father, Frederick
J Brabyn, who was there from 1958 to 1968.
The other man in the picture is Mr. Pedley I think (he was churchwarden)
Jeanne Clapp
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The July
photo shows left Father Featherstone? then Mrs Streets who taught us at
the Methodist Chapel and held sewing classes at her home on Fox Road for
us. She was so lovely. Behind her is Linda Millard whose father was a
painter and decorator on Stoney Hill.
4th left is Joan Tomlinson married name Lee. Extreme far
right - is it Marjorie Holmes? Hi Marjorie, don't know your married
name. I hope you are well. Before Marjorie on the back row is Miss
Kirkby (Hilda) she used to teach us sewing (seems we did a lot of
sewing!). She lived on Doles Lane then a flat on Holmesfield Rd, maybe
when she retired. Some other faces I recognise but sorry can't remember
the names.
Hilary Estrada-Haigh |
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June |
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As the name states, this shows a threshing machine with
tractor.
Can anyone
name the people? |
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May |
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The picture shows Drabbles farm which was lost to the
quarry! |
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March |
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The photo of the month. I showed it to my mum several
years ago and asked her who the girl was stood on the steps of what was
Mrs. Jones sweetshop, and almost without hesitation she said it was
Pearl Spetch! A Whitwell name I had never heard! She said they came from
down south (perhaps London) but didn't stay long. The photo is Welbeck
Street showing the Methodist Chapel, possibly taken before WW1. Can't
offer any more information.
Harold Streets |
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This appears to me (Whitwellian, born and raised) to be
Welbeck Street, The Methodist Chapel on the right The entrance to Fox
road hidden by the frontage of the shop.Looking towards Hangar Hill, and
where the Co-op now is.
Yvonne Trachy (Nee Cross) |
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The present (March) photograph is outside Bedfords
shop, with the Chapel next to it and in the distance is the Coop One end
of Fox Road came out between Bedfords as it then was, and the Chapel. I
have no idea what occasion the photograph was depicting. but next to
Bedfords was Atkins (not in the picture) where I used to spend my weekly
one penny spending money, two ounces of one kind and same of another..
two varieties for the penny.
Jim Buckingham |
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February |
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This is a picture of Yorkie the cockle seller who lived
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January |
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I think this months picture is outside a little corner
shop opposite what used to be Mr Cross's the barber in my day, and Jim
Cross his son later. I don't remember the names of the streets, but it
may be Tichfield Street. The shop stood in the fork of a V. The left one
went up towards Southfield
Lane and the right up towards The Dicken. I remember a lady called Mrs
Button ran it in my early days and she had a sweet stall at the Pit Pony
races one August in the late 1920s.
Jim Buckingham
With reference to the photograph in the
Jan 2007 section. I can confirm indeed that the shop in the photograph
is on Titchfield Street (No. 12 to be precise). I owned the property for
a while from 1985. It was, apparently, created as an extension to no.12,
which was at the end of the terrace, for some tailors. It had (and
probably still has) a large window in the roof and a very large window
at the front on the first floor (still there) to let in the maximum
amount of light. I believe the first floor was used as the tailoring
room and certainly the internal architecture would support that. The
building had two staircases from the ground floor to the first floor;
one directly from the ‘shop’ to the front room on the first floor and
the other as a more ordinary terrace stairs.
Hope that helps
Regards
Michael Fox |
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