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Bill and Jessie Barker, living at 64 Mill Street in Leek, were the recipients of this postcard in July 1944. Born in November 1889, William H. Barker worked as a dyer's labourer. He had married Jessie Fogg in 1913. The message was from Joan who posted the card at Whittington Barracks near Lichfield. The 1939 England and Wales Register does record a Joan Rogers living a few doors away from this couple. She would marry John G. Pointon in 1950.
This postcard would have dropped through the letterbox of Mrs. E. Ovington during March 1932. She lived at 19 Mostyn Road at Merton Park, a very short distance from the John Innes Horticultural Institution. Also living at that address was Ralph E. Holmes.
Sent to Miss A. Lathers in New York, this postcard was written by Agnes Smith of St. Chad's Cottage at Stowe in Lichfield. Her father, George Smith, was for 39 years the sexton and clerk of St. Chad's Church. Agnes Smith was one of fourteen children. Her message to Miss A. Lathers included comments on the buildings featured in a card she had received and that she would like to visit the United States. She was still a teenager when she posted this card. She later became a parlour maid at The Close next to the Cathedral. She married the joiner Albert Cartmale in 1915.
Posted from Lichfield in June 1959, this postcard was sent to Pauline Cole of The Yaldens, Manor Road in Tongham. This residence is located on the corner of Ash Green Lane West. The recipient was Pauline Muriel Metcalfe when she married Howard Norman Cole in 1937. The Yaldens was both house and cottage and both occupied by the Cole family. Howard Cole's father was a Lieutenant Colonel. His mother, Mabel Alice Cole, had spent a career with the education service of the London County Council, specialising in handwork for children and art.
Posted from Coventry on August 4th 1910, this postcard was sent to Frederick William Johnson, resident of Richmond House at Sheerness in Kent. The message makes reference to Mr. Hunter who wished to be remembered. Though posted in Coventry, the card featured an image from nearby Brandon in Warwickshire. Frederick Johnson was an engineer's fitter but would later operate an amusement arcade at Neptune Terrace in Sheerness.
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Posted in Smethwick on March 18th, 1911, this postcard was sent to Lillie Yates c/o Mrs. Pearson of Pengwern College at Pitsville Circus Road in Cheltenham. The postcard was from Freddie and featured lots of kisses when signing off. His message stated that he had been to Mr. Bennett's for tea, during which Ada Hill came to the house.
A brief message for Miss Martin who was seemingly working at Temple Chambers on Broad Street in Birmingham The postcard was posted in September 1922 at Lichfield.
Lilian Dietz, of 35 Valley Road at Spital in Chesterfield, would have received this postcard in August 1910, just in time to react to instructions from Jessie who was presumably on holiday or a school trip. Jessie Miles lived next door and was training to be a teacher. Lilian Mary Dietz, originally from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, was the 18-year-old daughter of George and Elizabeth Dietz. Lilian Dietz was recorded as a dressmaker in the 1911 census. The family had earlier lived in Hasland. It would appear that Jessie Miles lived at 37 Valley Road for the rest of her life. She died there in October 1968. Beginning here teaching career in 1912, she retired in June 1950. She was 15 years at the old Soresby Street Infants' School and nine years at Eyre Street before going to Derby Road Infants in 1939. She remained there until her retirement.
Dated September 1911, this postcard, sent to George Elliott of 19 William Street in Kettering, was posted at Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire by what looks like John. George Elliott was born in Cape Town in South Africa but his wife Stella hailed from Yoxall in Staffordshire which may explain the postmark of Burton-on-Trent. The couple had married three years before the date of this postcard. The both worked in the shoe industry.
Dated August 1912, this postcard, sent to Lily Smith of 47 Heathcote Street at Landford Hill near Longton, was posted at Yoxall in Staffordshire by a woman named Carrie. The 1911 census shows a Lily Smith living in this street but at No.3 rather than 47. She was Lily Endacott and had married Ebenezer Smith in July 1910 and moved into the home of his parents Leonard and Emma Smith. She was born in 1888 at the village of South Zeal in Dartmoor.
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This postcard was posted in August 1922 to Winnie and Queenie Wood who were on holiday at Traeth Bychan, Marian-glas on Anglesey. The card was from Mabel and posted in Lichfield.
This simple seasonal message was posted in Lichfield in December 1904 and sent to Mrs. J. Armstrong at 656 Barnard Street at Vancouver in British Columbia.
Dated 1921, this is a message to Edith Merryweather Gale, wife of the bank manager John Plowright Gale of Bank House at Holbeach in Lincolnshire. The message refers to a crowded house of nine people at No.22 Bore Street in Lichfield. John Plowright Gale was later manager of the Sleaford branch of the Midland Bank. The couple's only son was killed in action in Italy in February 1944.
Featuring a Christmas message, this postcard was sent to Ernest and Bertha Hey of Ashbrow Road at Fartown near Huddersfield. The card was sent from Redditch by a friend, Mrs. R., who was living at Wixford in Warwickshire. Working for the local council, Ernest Hey was a tram driver.
Dated June 1948, this postcard, sent to Miss Dorothy Harrison of Tenter Drive in Halesowen featured a holiday message from Harwich in Essex. Born in April 1922, Dorothy Harrison worked as a clerk in a grocer's office.
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"Does anyone recognise this pub? This painting has been hanging in our house in Devon for 50 years and nobody knows anything about
it! It would be lovely to find out more about it."
Savannah Olde
Devon February 26th 2021.
Thanks to a resident of Evesham this has been identified as the Green Dragon at Sambourne.
Kieron.
"May I make an enquiry through your readers I am interested in genealogy and have been compiling a family tree. My father was born in
Wilnecote and I have traced three generations before him who also lived there. My father's name was Aucott and I would be interested to hear from anybody
who may have a similar interest in genealogy, particularly in this family. The spelling of this name varies from Aucott to Allcott, Alcote, etc. Does anybody recall
seeing a family grave for example, in which case I would be pleased to know the wording of the inscription, particularly of pre-1900 grave[s]. My main
interest is in the following Christian names: Benjamin / Lizetts. William / Catherine and Joseph / wife's name not known. V. A. Morgan, 69, The
Oxleys, Harlow, Essex."
"Genealogy Query"
Coleshill Chronicle : January 28th 1977 Page 5