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Hi, I'm hoping someone will know Park Place - I'm researching places that my grandmother may have been 'in service'. I've found a possible entry in the 1911 census that lists someone who could be her as a servant at Park Place, Blandford. Does anyone know of a large house that would fit the bill?

A memory of Blandford Forum in 1910 by Jen Smith

My grandfather's, brother was in the New Zealand Maori Contingent (Company A), an ex-Gallipoli Veteran, he died of sickness and is buried at St Sebastions Church, Plot 1, B3430 Nine Mile ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham in 1910 by Koa Whitau Kean

My great grandfather, Arthur Tuffin, was the Gate Keeper at the Lodge in 1911. He was married to Emily Tuffin (nee Banvil). My grandmother, May Alexandra, was born in the Lodge along with her siblings, Milborough & ...Read more

A memory of Osborne House in 1910 by Sally Newman

In 2001 I found out my mother had been adopted in April 1953 and her real father,Thomas Beattie, was born in 1912 and lived in Tow Law. Thomas Beattie's father was called Richard Beattie and his mother was Mary Anne Beattie ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1910 by Sally Brown

My mum has a postcard with an address of Carlton Hall, Little Sutton, Chester written about 1912 to her aunty Dilys de vere Potts. Her granny had grown up in Little Sutton, she was a pianist and was called Queenie ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1910 by Jacqui Sheard Charlton

Hi, my name is Janice. Does anyone remember William & Sarah Ann Boardman (nee Hickson) living on Osborne Street in early 1900's? They brought my grandmother Alice (b1904), their niece, up from the age of two. She went to Abbot ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1910

It is not really my memory but something others may or may not remember. My mother's family came from Deeping St James - Sanderson was the name and this relates to a William Sanderson who was killed at the Peakirk crossing in ...Read more

A memory of Peakirk in 1910 by Eleane Rhodes

Kathleen Cook of Crockleford Heath near Ardleigh became nursemaid to Commander and Mrs Tinson of Colchester. Following her husband's death in 1927, Mrs Tinson set off in that autumn with her children Sheila, aged 9, and Jack, aged 4, ...Read more

A memory of Cheltenham in 1910 by Jennifer Read

I was born in 1919 at Bifrons Lower Lodge Gate, which at that time comprised two dwellings. The part we lived in had been a school provided by the Marquis of Conyngham for estate children. It was shaped like a letter T. The ...Read more

A memory of Patrixbourne in 1910 by David Alexander

My great grandfather, Albert William Hawkes, his brother Charles and their brother-in-law John Burles had a sweet manufacturing company on New St, in Chelmsford. They also had a sweet shops on Duke St, ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1910 by Kate Hawkes