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Monthly Photographs
2008
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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December |
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Obviously Alan Hall in
a pram race. Any further details gratefully received.
The photograph of the pram race.
The man on the right was my dad... George
Wyld and my grandad (known locally as Lobby) is in the pram.
You will remember the family quite
well..... we all played together many times in the Dicken
Regards
Linda Brammer
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November |
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Here are a few names to those faces
Top row left to right
Stuart Maiden, Susan Hall, Robert Biggin,
???, Gary France, Morag Gorley, Maxine Smith.
Second row
Sylvia Webster, ???, Alan Brain, ???
Elizabeth Durr, John Hinds, ???
Third Row
Lynette Wardle, Stella Hobson, ???, ???,
Barbara White, Linda Wyld(me), Lyn Greaves, Vicky
Howell.
Bottom row
Bernard Kimber, ???, ???. Susan Baker,
Nigel Sternberg, Susan? , John Webster,
David Sissons, Stephen Holmes
Best wishes and keep up the good work
Linda Brammer nee Wyld
Missing names
Top Row
Ian Whapplington
Second Row
Mrs Ellis, (Sylvia
Plummer?), Christopher Medcalf, Wright?
Third Row
Joan Ashley, Yvette
Shepherd
Bottom Row
Alan Crossland, Susan
Margetts,
I happened to fall
over your web-site on the net and came across the photo on November
2008.
I would like to confirm the names .
Ian Wapplington is next to me on the back row and Robert Wright (Frak)
son of the then colliery manager is far right on the second row.
It is Sylvia Plummer next to Joan Ellis.
The front row is Bernard Kimber , Alan Crossland and I think Ian Mawby
Best Regards
Rob Biggin
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October |
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Steam Engines at Gypsy
Hill. |
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September |
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Bedfords Shop. No
longer a shop but looking in much better order |
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August |
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I included this picture to see if anyone can help with a
recent enquiry. Are the mechanics of the pump wood or metal?
Although the spout is metal, the operating handle is wood? |
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July |
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I included this one as it is rather topical for me as it
currently looks quite different after a tragic accident. Also one of
our recent Lowestoft visitors went up there and asked what the 'aircraft landing
lights' were as you enter the top side of the site. After a recent visit I
now realise that the 'landing lights' are the remains of the stanchions holding
up the Dutch barn in the foreground, the roof of which is no longer there.
(They do look like landing lights!) |
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June |
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The old mill on Mill lane. I understand some people
fought to save it at the time, but they sadly lost!
Pete |
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May |
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This May picture is a good view
of old Whitwell from one end of the High Hill, with the old mill in the
far right background and the Miners Welfare, then fairly newly built on
the left horizon. I started my membership of
the County Library when it was held in the "Welfare" and it was also
the venue on Tuesday nights for visiting concert parties organised by
ENSA (Entertainments for National Service ) about the end of the war,
ostensibly to keep up morale, they said when I returned briefly to
Whitwell
Jim Buckingham |
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April |
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I sent your pic to my brother
Noël, in the USA. (He was born 1934,so
he has memories of this era) I hope his reply (enclosed) is of some help.
Regards
Yvonne Trachy
They are early 'aircraft spotters'. They have arm bands
and lapel badges and appear to be in a bunker. All the early war 'part
time volunteers' had to make do with just arm bands and lapel badges for
identification. Such as;- fire watchers, ARP, Firemen, Special
Constables, Home Guard etc. Some working in industries critical to the
war effort, were also issued lapel badges. I have dads Railway service
badge. He was also 'volunteered' to be a fire watcher.
Spotters and the home guard were issued uniforms later in
the war.
There was a spotters post on the top of Sunnyside.
The instrument is a sight that swivels both horizontally
and vertically. When the spotters sighted on an incoming enemy
aircraft they reported its horizontal and vertical angles (at their
location) to area control, along with it's direction of travel. With
several such reports the aircrafts location, height, and route could be
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February |
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This is the late Arthur Websters property on Malthouse Row.
If this shot were taken today it would be of the Chemist in the Square. |
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These pictures were kindly sent in by Lynne Bradley. The lady in front
of the Coop is Doris Lawson of Colliery Row who worked there. |
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Front row seated far left - as you view
the photo - is Walter Buckingham (Walt Buck) who lived on Mill Crescent
in the "Bottom Ring" No.29. Front row far right seated is Charles (Wag)
Gee who lived at No. 34 Mill Crescent. Charlie Gee was my uncle, son of
Daniel Gee who died in the first world war and is recorded on the war
memorial, nephew of Reg Gee, joiner and undertaker, who lived in The
Square "Gee's Cottage" with the pump outside. His grandfather Daniel Gee
of Milroy Cottage, Mason St. was in an earlier photo.
Hilary Estrada-Haigh |
(Please click on he photo to enlarge, and use the back button to return)
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