Hope Under Dinmore, Arkwright's Almshouses c.1960
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Photo of Hope Under Dinmore, Arkwright's Almshouses c.1960

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Nearby Hampton Court became the home of the Arkwright family, the well-known cotton spinning industrialists. The family were great benefactors to the village, hence the name of these almshouses. Notice the man working in his vegetable plot on the right of the picture.

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A Selection of Memories from Hope under Dinmore

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Hope under Dinmore

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My father went to work at Hampton Court as a gardener's boy when he left school at the age of 14 in 1917. By then, it was in use as a convalescent hospital for soldiers. I remember my father saying that he had to put little leather boots on the pony's hooves to mow the lawns with the horse-drawn mower, and that one of his jobs was to wash the leaves of indoor plants with milk. Many of my ancestors came from ...see more