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Lower Frankton maps
Historic maps of Lower Frankton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Lower Frankton maps
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Lower Frankton area books
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WAR
My mum was evacuated to here during the Second World War, she remembers a place called Eastwick. I am driving her up for a visit this Friday 30/04/10 to see the village and see what she remembers of the place.
Mainwaring - Otley Park
Can anyone help me to find something out please? My grandfather was the son of Lydia Drury and her mother was a female from Otley Park by the name of Mainwaring, nobody is sure of her first name as we do know that Ms Mainwaring was thrown out of Otley for conceiving a child out of wedlock to a local builder by the name of Drury. I would like to shed some more light on this as my grandfather is no longer here to ask questions of him. He has 2 sisters by the names of Lottie and ? , pretty sketchy detail really but I would love to find out more. Thanks!
My Grandmother
The 1901 census shows my grandmother Emma Mainwaring, then aged 14, working as a domestic servant at Kenwicks Park. Thinking that Kenwicks Park was the name of a large country house I started to search for it only to find that Kenwicks Park refers to a locality. Can anyone suggest where I can find the exact house where my grandmother worked?
I am desperate to take a photo of the property to add to my family history.
Tedsmore Hall
My father came from Tedsmore Hall. He was Roger Mainwaring Crees and Mainwaring is a family name. He is deceased now, but I do have a photograph of the old house. I intend to journey into Wales next week and will go and see that place although it looks as if the house has been demolished as I cannot find any reference to it. I have a couple of books written by the Rev. Thomas Bulkeley Owen, my ancestor. I do have other photographs and family history but have only just begun to unravel it all. Victoria Crees.
Would You Swim in This Today?
This the exact spot where I learned to swim, it was muddy, cold, and wonderful, it was also where I learned to use a canoe with the school, we actually had to turn it over...Yuk... My Mum would send us to Ushers shop on the canal a little way back, for bread..I can smell it now. Climbing up the steep hill home I would peal off bits of crust to eat, sit on the big stone that was halfway up the hill...I now live in Florida and swim daily in the Gulf of Mexico... in the canal you never had to be concerned for stingrays, and sharks though.
Ushers Shop
I have always known it as Ushers, although I remember it being run by a Mr. Fisher who has a teenage daughter who had a pony....I remember her being very kind to me when I was a little girl. I remember her singing a song about girls sitting in the back seat hugging and kissing with Fred . Very funny. Random thoughts...Just along the canal was the Dyke walk, it seemed so big as I was so little, and there was a footpath through it, it was a magical wood and My brother would always hide and I would feel so alone in that big wood...I remember meeting an old woman named Mrs. Calendar who had two golden retriever dogs, who lived at the end of the wood, she told us that the wood was haunted and you could hear the chains rattle on windy nights.. I don't think I ever went there again.
Safe Fun in Childhood
I was born in 1962 in my family home, number 36 (now 116) Hammonds Place. It's not so common these days to be born at home. There was a community spirit on the estate, all the kids addressed adults as auntie or uncle or Mr/Mrs, there was lip but respect. My best memories of Gobowen were the woods with bluebells and dumped Ford Zephyr cars etc complete with front bench seat, the fields prior to them becoming a housing estate and playing fields, the meadows by Perry's garage, the Rhewl bank and the walks that were fun and safe for all us kids due to more freedom, less traffic etc, this has now changed, the Gobowen of today is full of houses, no safe hideaways for kids, you can't even sit on the wall by the chippy and ask for batter bits. I can't say who ran the chippy but Idris Roberts had his finger in every other business "scam" - a rough diamond!! There were also good times spent... Read more
