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Monthly Photographs
2009
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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Continued from January 2010;
During my browse of the website I was
interested in the Welfare Dramatic Group. I belonged to that group and
remember playing in 'Christmas Carol'. "Scrooge" was played by John
Addison, who at the time was Flight Sergeant in the RAF and then
serving at 66 MU Cuckney where I also was employed as a civilian. A
photograph of the players is attached. Perhaps other Whitwellians may be
interested, and may also have played the production. I am on the extreme
left of the picture.
Derek Bower |
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November |
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Just a delightful photo
taken somewhere in the Whitwell area. |
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October |
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This is a picture of the shop which you showed in January 2007. It
stands, or stood at the corner of Titchfield Street a few yards across from a little row of shops which included
Cross the barber and Phillips, general dealer in the 1920s At that
time it was kept by a Mrs Button, but whether she is the lady in the
picture I am not sure. As I said in my earlier submission, when the Pit
Pony races were held on Mill lane in the late 1920s or early 1930s, I
heard that Mrs Button was looking for someone to sell sweets and
chocolates at the event, so went to see her and got the job. The day of
the races was a very hot one, and I walked
around with a tray of goodies. The chocolate bars began to melt, but I
sold out rapidly and went back to the stall on the grounds that Mrs
Button herself was holding. She refilled my tray and I soon sold out
again. I suppose I got a few coppers in payment, but I do remember
having to almost drink the chocolate bar which she also gave me.. I
would love to know what year this would be, as I only remember one Pit
Pony Race event
Jim Buckingham |
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September |
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The photo taken on High Street shows
Joe Snell (minus his Brunt's School cap which he invariably wore) outside
his grocers shop, one would assume the other Gentleman to be George
Milnes outside his Ironmongers shop before he moved to the old Co-op
which stood at the corner of Spring Hill and Hanger Hill. However I
believe the Gentleman to be Joe Else who lived on High Street next to
the Church, George Milnes was of a stockier build but of course when I
knew him and Joe Else it was some years after the photo was taken which
I imagine was round about the late twenties or very early thirties.
An interesting Family the Snells, Mrs
Snell was considered by some to be somewhat eccentric in later life
because of the large flowered hats she wore but I found here to be a
very nice lady when I delivered their papers in 1937 onwards, they had a
Son Charlie (School Teacher) whose Son a professional golfer won the
British Players Championship. Charlie was a member of a group of keep
fit enthusiasts at Whitwell, Teddy Taylor, Billie Taylor ? Hodgkis and
Norman Drake, the latter represented Great Britain at the infamous 1936
Berlin Olympics. (Hammer Thrower)
This group could be counted on to take
part in any event in the Village when entertainment was mostly home
grown. In the 1930s concert variety/ parties used to visit the Miners
Welfare one such party included an unridable mule, Charlie Snell not to
be daunted, and an event which took the attention of the Village, had a
go and succeeded until, unbeknown to Charlie when the Proprietor said
‘Right, it was the signal to a well trained mule for one more kick and
Charlie was deposited on the stage floor.
Cliff. Hobson |
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August |
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What a lovely
picture of Mr Snells shop in High Street.. I think I mentioned it in my
"memoirs".
Mr Snell used to
live next door to us in High Street, in a detached house, which I
suppose is still there He used to wear a boys green Brunt's Grammar
School (Mansfield) cap, green with gold braid
on it, to weigh out flour to keep it out of his hair. I wonder if the
lady is young Mrs.
Snell. I knew her as an old lady. When I used the East Midland bus to
go to Staveley Grammar School, she would
sometimes board it and was a petite little lady who wore the strangest
hats, trimmed with what seemed to me to be bits of old ribbon and other
things and she seemed a bit eccentric The shop was a few yards from the
ironmongers George Mills about opposite to
the Blacksmiths, whereas the Snells lived on the opposite side to the
shop, nearer to the Square, about no 5 High Street and their long back
garden was next to ours (no 3), now replaced
by a bungalow. They both sloped steeply up, and from the top end, you
could look down into the school classrooms and playground I cannot
believe that is all of 76 years ago.
Jim Buckingham |
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July |
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The present one is
of the ironmonger Mr G Mills at his original
shop at the top of High Street. I wonder if the shop building is still
there? There was another shop, Mr Snell, the general grocers both
opposite to the old Smithy where the
blacksmith, George Harness plied his trade. In later years, Mr
Mills moved his shop to the top of Spring Hill
adjoining the old Co-op before it moved a little way away We bought many of our household items from Mr
Mills, who opened a branch shop in Elmton Road,
Creswell and had it managed by an old friend of mine Ernest Whiles It
was not a success however and soon closed I believe.
Jim
Buckingham |
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May |
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The 1000 years celebrations in 1989.
Some well known faces here, but some are no longer with us. Can
you name them? |
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April |
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A old shot of the old post office on the
High Street
I think it was the old High Street Post Office
premises. probably about 1925 or much earlier.
Just below the shop is the entrance to what
used to be the house of Dr Lawson, The stone entrance to his yard was
still there when I last visited Whitwell.
There was then a narrow opening before a row
of shops Carriers the drapers and then the
Boot and Shoe Inn. This
narrow path led up to the doctors surgery which was detached from his
main premises, and was gas-lit.
I lived at No 3 High Street,
opposite in about 1932 I shall be interested
to see if this is correct.
Jim
Buckingham |
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March |
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Is this Mr. Mills?
Possible on the High Hill?
Mr John Hazelhurst Anne stansbury Mr John Miles
(smoking)
Mr Peter Hall (flat cap)
Marion Marjory ? Jean Alan
Peggy
Story Hazelhurst (sorry) Webster Pettit Reynolds
Hazel Betty Mr Piano man Billy
Richard
Hollingsworth Hodgkiss Stansbury Hodgkiss
Alan Pettit |
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February |
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Grand Organ Recital, 11th September 1921.
Any other information gratefully received. |
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January |
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This was a sneaked photograph of the new
'tank', taken as it was being shipped by train from Lincoln
during the Great War. |
(Please click on he photo to enlarge, and use the back button to return)
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