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The latest
pictures are intriguing. The building that looks like a very large barn
but isn't, seems to awaken a VERY distant memory for me, and I may be
completely wrong, but I have a very vague memory of such a building in
Southfield lane, before houses were built there, down towards the
Station end and something vaguely connected with lime manufacture
springs to mind. I wish we could find this out for sure.
The other
pictures of the lines of boys on the homepage seems to be some sort of
institution as they are similarly dressed whereas in my early days in
the 1920s everyone was different, often in woollen jerseys, holed in the
front or second hand clothes. This picture must have been long before
then and I would say in the 1890s The building does not look like
anything in Whitwell and the row of houses in the background certainly
doesn't. As for the camping pictures could this be of seaside
camp of some cadets or Boys Brigade? These took place at Cleethorpe or
Skegness annually pre war as you will know It certainly does not look
like the Church Lads Brigade but from what appears to be rolled up
stretchers on the ground in front they may have been ambulance cadets.
There is an apocryphal story about one CLB camp. It was the custom for
the Rector Rev W E C Sternberg to either go with them or to go over
especially to conduct a drumhead service on the Sunday morning. Toilet
arrangements were rather primitive as the latrines consisted of a
substantial hole dug near the camp, with a pole across. The Rev was
seen dejectedly climbing out of the hole early on the Sunday morning,
cleaning himself up with the Nottingham Evening News, having failed to
master the art of sitting on a pole to er well you know what......
Jim Buckingham
The June 11
photo shows the remains of the old quarry stone crusher building (
produced lime). I remember visiting the quarry as 5 year old (1930) with
the brother of my Grandfather Wilfred Hall with a horse and cart to
fetch a load of stone. The quarry was then in the position of shutting
down.
Cliff
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