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Flowmeter testing 1966/7 (Merv Norris), flowmeter calibration (John Keir?).

Mawdsley's armature shop, approximately 1967. Left - Doug Gunston and Ivor Carter.

When Ferney Hill was a home for blind people my grandmother worked there after she had retired. This photograph taken in the 1950's shows, what I believe to be, the Kitchen staff. My grandmother, Lily Ballinger, is the lady on the left. Although a couple of the faces are familiar I can't put any mor...

Date late 1950's ?

William Harrold (1841-1906) started his rope and harness making business in Twinberrow lane in 1879 before he later moved to Prospect House in Boulton Lane. He apparently learnt his trade at Champion's.

I'm not sure of the date of the photo. It appears to be well before it was used as a Residential Home for the Blind. Any comments?

Surely the Dorothy cafe was next to Pepworths, and the ice cream shop in Long Street, was that not Savage's? The little shop at the bottom of Bull Pitch was, I believe, run by a Mr Phippin. He sold tobacco and a wide selection of sweets and chocolate. I started to collect chocolate wrappers and ofte...

The R A Lister 1st team 1937

Terry McNulty -- Reg Browning-- John Griffin -- Fred Russell -- Basil Owen -- Norman Miller-- Frank Burns ( Ump )

....? Adams.................. Harold Hurcombe...........F. Knight.............Jack Bennett.........Langdon Williams

Humphrey John Hague ran, and I believe owned, The Grove Hotel in St. Davids Pembrokeshire. He was certainly there up to the mid 1960's.

Arthur is known to have changed the format of his name at least once.

Some years ago I was given this photograph. Sitting is Geoffrey Webb, one of the the original writers of the Archers, who was a Dursley man. The original brief was for a six week series of informative programmes mainly for farmers. Standing behind him is a farmer from Coaley, who was his technical a...

I remember the farm cottage. Before moving to the cottage in the courtyard, my grandfather lived in the first cottage on the opposite side of the main road. The row of crosses in the garden was a lean to green house with a rather fine grape vine in it. The tower is the white square in the corner of ...

I have just been reading about Arthur Strachen Winterbotham's cricket bat plantation at Leonard Stanley and his production . As he was such a keen cricketer, it is no surprise that he formed a team from the staff of the estate.

My grandfather, William Browning, was the gardener living in the cottage next to the main house from about 1945 until 1964. Mr Tipper surely lived in one of the houses in the area known as The Laggers. I can't remember a tunnel running the length of the wall, only the arched way into the field near ...

The 1882 OS map shows a smaller house, but the drive appears to be the same except for the extension towards the tower. Arthur Brend Winterbotham was living at Brooklands in 1861 (census) with Thomas Hunt (his partner?), giving his occupation as woolen manufacturer employing 161 persons. I can't fin...

in the 1841 census Norman Hill House is occupied by a family of four, admittedly of independent means. in 1851 and 1861 it is occupied by a gardener and his family, a different one on each occasion. It isn't until 1871 and beyond that the Winterbothams have moved in and are listed with servants. To ...