Redmire, The Ford c.1955
Photo ref: R18009
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This charming photograph shows two lads and a girl pulling a handcart carrying metal milk churns over the ford across the beck in Redmire, a village situated in mid Wensleydale. A bystander sits on the drystone wall to the left and watches their progress.

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My great great grandparents arrived in Redmire in the 1840s or thereabouts.   This photo was taken in 1929 when my mother would have been about nine or ten.  She was born in Redmire in 1921 to George and Ellenor Miller who had five more children William, Ethel, Lillian, John and Mary.  The family were all stonemasons through the census years.  My interest is in this photo.  The girl with the longest hair resembles ...see more