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Monthly Photographs
2010
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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A delightful picture of St Lawrence Church
taken from the village end of the High Hill, but you ask what is
missing. Can't answer this but wonder if the church clock is missing?
My old eyes are failing me a bit now and the picture is not too clear
Best wishes
Jim Buckingham
I believe the clock is
there but actually several things are not. A modern picture would
show the houses on the far right, the area covered in beautiful tree's.
Possible just out of shot but on the bottom right on the far side of the
road a cottage once stood. Also the empty space in the garden of
the house bottom right (occupied by John and
Nora Miles in my memory) was also previously occupied by other cottages
which were joined on the visible gable end.
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The
Four Prize Winners
From
the Worksop Guardian August 1911
One of the most
interesting classes at Welbeck show was that open to servants who have
grown old in the employ of the Duke of Portland and his predecessors.
There were 16 entries, and the winner of the first prize is debarred
from competing in another year. Our photograph shows the four
prize-winners. Seated are William Drabble , Southfield Lane Cottage,
Whitwell, whose record of service in the wood yard at Welbeck is 56
years; and Thomas Evers, Cuckney, who is employed in the chip house at
the wood yard and has been on the Welbeck estate 54 years 8 months.
Standing are, William Whitworth, Warsop Windmill Cottages, who is
employed in the roads department, and who can look back on 54years and 7
months service; and S Duckmanton, Belph, Whitwell, whose record is 54
years and 4 months. He, like Evers, is employed in the Chip House. Of
the twelve other competitors, five have seen 50 years service, the
others averaging 46 years to 49 years. Needless to say these veterans
are proud of their employ and are happy and contented. They have the
satisfaction of knowing that so long as they can work, they may do so
and that when the time comes that they can no longer do so, they will be
tenderly dealt with. Quiet and uneventful, their lives have been spent
in calmness and serenity.
Peter Stevenson
Is
this a picture of the Duckmanton family? I remember one , whose name was
Sam, I think, who worked in the pit but who was VERY clever at
woodwork. I bought several articles from him which I still have, a
beautifully crafted oak occasional table, and a trick money box, also in
oak. I would be intrigued to know if it is the same Mr Duckmanton who
is in the picture. When I went to collect the table, he had just
arrived home from work and was bathing in a tin bath, before a roaring
open coal fire as was the custom before pithead baths. If this is the
same Sam Duckmanton he would have been near retiring age then.
Unfortunately I cannot remember where I went, it could have been Fox
Road area. I would love to know
Jim Buckingham |
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Once again a very evocative picture. I
don't know if I am correct as I forget the names of streets, but I
think this one is a view of Station Road, a few yards past the village
pump, and what looks to me like the old Reading Room, now demolished
(that is the little stone building in the foreground).
The path behind it leads up to a row of houses. The first
building, looking like a lean-to or annex was Mr Tinker's cycle repair
shop. He and his wife were very devout and regularly held a prayer
meeting in a shop in Station Road itself. They sometimes used to walk
through the village, carrying a banner bearing a religious text,
followed by one adherent, who I think was Mrs Challoner and could have
been Mrs Tinker's sister.
The tall building on the left of the picture was an outbuilding
belonging to a farm, and has been long demolished to make way for
Station Road.
I may be completely wrong about some of this as the Reading Room is
different from what I remember of it.
I shall be interested to see if other old Whitwellians have comments
about this picture.
Jim Buckingham |
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Hockey? team. Not sure when or
where |
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I loved the
picture of the old church, I assume it is Whitwell St Lawrence at the
beginning of last century, with its oil lamps. I was an alter server
at Hodthorpe, but had to go to Whitwell to be confirmed. I had to lead a
procession, with another boy, carrying candles in long brass
candlesticks, from the Rectory across the road into church, in front of
the Bishop of Derby A slight breeze blew out the candle so I leaned
over for a light from my mate,-- then his blew out, and we were swapping
over until we got into the vestry, much to the amusement of the Bish..
There was a rail across the church between the choir stalls and the
nave, and we knelt in turn to have the Bish lay hands on us, and the
apocryphal tale was that he was very short-sighted
and managed to confirm the large wooden sphere that topped the rail....
I don't suppose
I will ever see Whitwell again, but your pictures bring back so many
memories Best wishes I wonder if it would be possible to run an enquiry
column on the website asking about old inhabitants. For instance I
wonder if some of my old contemporaries are still alive. I am 89 now, so
we must be thin on the ground, but I remember the old Whitwell with
great fondness
Jim Buckingham |
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Taken in the Chapel as part of the 1000
years celebrations in 1989. |
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A photo from a different age, but who
remembers 'Tata' Picking week in October? |
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Just been browsing through your website
which brought back a few memories. I suppose I can class myself as an
old Whitwellian. Although I was born in Sheffield, my family at the
time lived in Killamarsh. When I was very young moved to Bakestone Moor
then Southgate (on the Whitwell side of Van Dykes). A photo of our
cottage is attached. Toll Bar Cottage (as it was known) belonged to
Southfield Farm. I attended Whitwell Infant and Junior school (as did
my sister Jean) and later I went to Shirebrook Selective Central. In
1950 I left the area to join the RAF. I served 22 years and finally
finished my service at Finningley (now Robin Hood Airport), and I now
live in Branton (Doncaster).
Derek Bower |
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