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Addlethorpe, Church c1955
Addlethorpe, Church c1955 Ref: A319030
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Year: 1870s
King's Head Inn
My great grandfather, John Foster Merril (1840-1844), was the innkeeper at the Kings Head Inn in Addlethorpe. His son, John Booth Merrill, wrote this in his memoirs: "I, John Booth Merrill, was born at Addlethorpe ... at the King's Head tavern on July 6, 1866. My father's brother Thomas Merrill visited us from the USA. It was said during the celebration I got very drunk and my mother decided a tavern was no place to raise a family. She got my father to move on a farm near the Addlethorpe flour mill, a round 6 story brick windmill." Last edited: 02/10/2006 04:41 by Linda Bailey |
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Year: 1958
Grandfather
I remember going to Hogsthorpe to see some family member. They had the butchers shop. My grandad was Euclid Stephenson. Born1875. Lived on the High Street, he worked as a postman,and was a member of the post office choir, who went to "the Holyland" singing.There is a carving on a house with the Stephenson name on it. Euclid married Lucy Cutts. They moved to Nottingham but returned in 1934. I would love to know if anyone knows of them. Ann Stephenson Last edited: 25/02/2008 09:16 by First Name Last Name |
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My childhood in Hogsthorpe
I was born in 1951 and in April 1953 our family moved to Hogsthorpe. My parents were worried as that was the year of the floods and they had put furniture in our new home. Although the police would not let them through to check on things, fortunately, Hogsthorpe was not flooded. So we moved in and in September of 1956 I started at the primary school. This building, however, was destroyed by fire. It was then a very small village-everyone knew everyone and the school had 60 pupils(it could have been less) in it. My address then was Ashleigh, West End and my late father ran a poultry farm. I did notice Betty Kirkham's name on the Hogsthorpe village website and if you speak to her, I am sure that she will remember us. I used to go to her to have my hair permed. I was at school with some of the Jinks family and Sylvia was the same age as me. Last time I enquired she was still living in the village on High Street but I did not get to see her as she was at work. Some of the other local names that I was at school with were Joyce(Sandra and I still keep in touch at Christmas), Gibert, Askew, Whitehead, Green and Scott. It was a quiet little village but it had several shops, most of which are long gone. There was Farnsworths the grocers, Wings the bakery, Wilkinsons fruit shop, Miss Merriman who sold sweets, Shooters wool shop which if my memory serves me right, was the old post office, Taylors butchers shop which I belive is still there, Dunkerleys the carpenters, a general store on Thames Street, a Co-op and an excellent fish and chop shop. So sad to see that most of them have closed for their various reasons. My brother, Peter Shaw was married at Hogsthorpe Church in 1970 and he too went to Hogsthorpe School. The Headteacher was then Miss Braybrook and the other teachers Mrs. Sharp and Mrs. Mullins. I attended the Methodist Chapel and was married there in April 1981. I taught Sunday School there until my marriage when my husband (who is Yorkshire born) and I moved to West Yorkshire. We did, however look at a couple of properties in Hogsthorpe. We considered the old Midland Bank building to convert and a house in the same yard as The Saracens Head, which in my childhood was owned by a family called Barry. We didn't buy either and the latter was in a poor state of repair then - it had no stairs and a hole in the roof. I still miss some things about village life and I would be pleased to hear from anyone in the village. Memories from Christine Parr nee Christine Shaw. Dewsbury. West Yorkshire gerald.parr@ntlworld.com Posted: 30/06/2006 20:03 by Christine Parr Nee Shaw |
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 Chapel St Leonards, the Esplanade c1955 (ref: C427002) |
Year: 1930s
Miss Canning,
Miss Canning did not have the haberdashery store, that was Mrs Graham and her shop was next door to Stows Stores. In the back was a little tea room and a girl called Lilly Bodice worked with her. The shop and cottage she lived in was left to Lilly when Mrs Graham passed away. Miss Canning sold the papers, sweets, cigarettes and the stall outside had fruit and veg. One year she sold fireworks, only the one year as the village lads pinched most of them. I have to admit I was one of those lads and she was my Aunt. Happy days. Stinsons Moter Services was the local bus way before the Lincolnshire Road Car came to the village. Their buses were red and the Road Car were green. Last edited: 15/02/2007 09:35 by Robert W Lincoln |
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 Skegness, North Parade c1955 (ref: S134043) |
Year: 1963
Remembering my Best Friend, Andy Gardiner
While studying at Westminster Technical College, Hotel School just off Victoria Street in London I became good friends with Andy Gardiner whose parents ran a small hotel, probably one of these pictured here, in the North Parade of the front at Skegness. Andy invited me up at some point to meet his parents and sister, he being accompanied by his then lovely French girlfriend of whom I was terribly envious. Later, during the Easter Holidays, we were to travel to the Rhine Valley, accompanied with his pal, Whigs. NEVER..I say NEVER travel in a threesome .. it is fatal as there inevitably comes a clash when one person sides with another, leaving one out. Nevertheless, despite the occasional blowout, we had a great trip sampling German wines in the famous cellars around Rüdesheim and Mainz. After graduation Andy went to Munich where he had obtained a job at the Hotel Bayerischerhof, one of the city's premier luxury hotels. He suggested that I go with him and I jumped at the chance, making speedy arrangements with my manager at the Golden Lion Hotel in Hunstanton, just across the Wash from Skeggy. We spent a raucous, hard working winter together and shared a room at Frau Lehner's rooming house on the Westermühlstrasse, through the Oktoberfest and the great Fasching carnival seasons...but that is a whole other story! I returned to my job in Hunstanton the following spring (1963). Andy got a job in Cambridge. One day a letter arrived. It was from his mother. She wrote that one late night, after pubbing, while being driven home on a small country lane, his friend thought he saw an animal run out across the road in their open topped sportscar's path and he swerved and hit the ditch. Andy was thrown forward out of the car, across the windscreen and hit a tree, receiving injuries to his head that soon thereafter proved fatal. His mother informed me that he had been cremated and a ceremony had taken place at home, all without my knowledge (I suppose she found my address later amongst his posessions ). I recall being numb to the news, not being able to react to the suddenness of his 'disappearance'. I don't think I ever dealt with it other than the fact that his Cambridge girlfriend, Dixie, and I became close for a while. A real good mate, with a dry sense of humour who sometimes could be overly sarcastic but whom I was privileged to have had in my life. Without him I would have missed some great experiences. Last edited: 21/05/2008 08:37 by Dylan Rivis |
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