Each month a picture will be displayed from our extensive collection
(George Berry Collection) or from friends of the
WLHG. If you have
any memories of the places or people in the photographs please e-mail us and
tell us. Alternatively, if you have any photographs and would be willing
for them to appear here, please send them and I will oblige.
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sent your pic to my brother Noel,in the USA.(he was born 1934,so
he has memories of this era)
I hope his reply (enclosed) is of some help.
Regards
Yvonne Trachy
They are early 'aircraft spotters'. They have arm bands
and lapel badges and appear to be in a bunker. All the early war 'part
time volunteers' had to make do with just arm bands and lapel badges for
identification. Such as;- fire watchers, ARP, Firemen, Special
Constables, Home Guard etc. Some working in industries critical to the
war effort, were also issued lapel badges. I have dads Railway service
badge. He was also 'volunteered' to be a fire watcher.
Spotters and the home guard were issued uniforms later in
the war.
There was a spotters post on the top of Sunnyside.
The instrument is a sight that swivels both horizontally
and vertically. When the spotters sighted on an incoming enemy
aircraft they reported its horizontal and vertical angles (at their
location) to area control, along with it's direction of travel. With
several such reports the aircrafts location, height, and route could be
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This is the late Arthur Websters property on Malthouse Row.
If this shot were taken today it would be of the Chemist in the Square. |
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These pictures were kindly sent in by Lynne Bradley. The lady in front
of the Coop is Doris Lawson of Colliery Row who worked there. |
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2007 |
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November |
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picture shows St. Martins Church, Hodthorpe football team of 1910/11.
4th from the left is Mathew Lee. His Grandson Mel Holdsworth sent
in the picture. |
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October |
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Vaults Hotel(now
Holmfield Arms) from over a stone wall on Butt Hill. Men on the
road...seem to be heading towards the Pit.
Yvonne Trachy(nee Cross)
I thought it was in Station Road, near the
Vaults Hotel, and near the site of the old Whitwell Kinema It seems as
if there was a heavy fall of snow before the picture was taken
Jim Buckingham |
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August |
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Looks to me to be on the High Hill..and
judging by the dress maybe early 1900`s
Yvonne Trachy(nee Cross) |
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July |
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A fine gathering of folk. Mainly
WI members. Who are they and what year?
The rector there is my father, Frederick
J Brabyn, who was there from 1958 to 1968.
The other man in the picture is Mr. Pedley I think (he was churchwarden)
Jeanne Clapp |
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June |
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As the name states, this shows a threshing machine with
tractor.
Can anyone
name the people? |
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May |
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The picture shows Drabbles farm which was lost to the
quarry! |
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March |
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The photo of the month. I showed it to my mum several
years ago and asked her who the girl was stood on the steps of what was
Mrs. Jones sweetshop, and almost without hesitation she said it was
Pearl Spetch! A Whitwell name I had never heard! She said they came from
down south (perhaps London) but didn't stay long. The photo is Welbeck
Street showing the Methodist Chapel, possibly taken before WW1. Can't
offer any more information.
Harold Streets |
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This appears to me (Whitwellian,born and raised) to be
Welbeck Street, The Methodist Chapel on the right The entrance to Fox
road hidden by the frontage of the shop.Looking towards Hangar Hill, and
where the Co-op now is.
Yvonne Trachy (Nee Cross) |
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The present (March) photograph is outside Bedfords
shop, with the Chapel next to it and in the distance is the Coop One end
of Fox Road came out between Bedfords as it then was, and the Chapel. I
have no idea what occasion the photograph was depicting. but next to
Bedfords was Atkins (not in the picture) where I used to spend my weekly
one penny spending money, two ounces of one kind and same of another..
two varieties for the penny.
Jim Buckingham |
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February |
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This is a picture of Yorkie the cockle seller who lived
on the Common |
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I think this months picture is outside a little corner
shop opposite what used to be Mr Cross's the barber in my day, and Jim
Cross his son later. I don't remember the names of the streets, but it
may be Tichfield Street. The shop stood in the fork of a V. The left one
went up towards Southfield
Lane and the right up towards The Dicken. I remember a lady called Mrs
Button ran it in my early days and she had a sweet stall at the Pit Pony
races one August in the late 1920s. (Jim Buckingham) |
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This was Brank's farm which stood on the site of the
Health Centre. |
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November |
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Info from Cliff Hobson;
The November
photograph is taken from the High Hill looking towards Whitwell Common,
the Building standing four square is the Mallet and Chisel on Stony Hill
(Hillside) the house next but one on the right, last occupied by Mr Tom
Gallagher, was demolished early 1950's. The photo was either taken then
or most likely before the last war. Probably the latter because the
footpath across the Church Field is prominent, when it was used daily by
the people from Whitwell Common and regularly by the people from the
West End (Dicken) |
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These are all related to the Portland Street Chapel. Notice the
position of the organ. When was this moved? |
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October No.2 |
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Some names - Ray Cluroe, Joe Beeston, Stephen Hall, Peter
Hall, Mrs Blount. |
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September |
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See above comment |
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August |
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The August picture-- of what was Scotland Lane now Portland
Street. ( the Dicken) When the houses were built they were known as
Greenwood Terrace, colloquially known first as Long Row but quickly became
known as Long Curtain Row and still referred to by that name by old and not
so old Whitwell people. The decorations shown are I believe to celebrate the
end of the First World War as there is another photograph in existence
showing the decorations taken from the other end of the street and so
labelled end of 1914-1918 war dated 1919 ( Treaty of Versaille ending the
war officially was signed June 1919) - (Cliff. Hobson) |
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July |
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This photo, sent in by Joanna Holland shows her paternal
great granddad, Walter Newton Stubbings standing 2nd from the left in
the third row. Clearly taken in front of the Vestry at Portland Street
Methodist Church. |
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June |
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The following description was sent in by an ex Whitwellian, Mr
Jim Buckingham
"....It seems to be at the bottom of Hanger Hill by Sapsfords Farm on the left
and Barlows Farm on the right, looking towards Malthouse Row. All now the site
of a medical centre I believe."
And from Hilary Estrada-Haigh
The photo submitted on above date shows my great grandfather Daniel Gee of
Millroy Cottage Mason St., coming down to the square by Sapsford's Farm.
I was always told he is the person on the left, however I know due to his
blindness he used a stick? I don't know when he became blind but do know he was
a very tall man, so I will stick with the family history He was father to Reg
(the local undertaker & carpenter) "Gee's" Cottage in square, Al. who with A Ada
kept the shop at the end of Portland St. Mabel later Ward, shown in working
party photos of the Welbeck St Methodist Chapel. She was Grandma to Dorothy &
John Shooter. Daniel Evelyn, my grandfather, killed in 1st World War,
commemorated on war memorial in the square also Polly, whose name I think was
Hannah. There was also Louis who died aged 21yrs, 3 weeks after tooth
extraction, (most likely a botched job - the family tell he never stopped
bleeding!). (Has his record in the church yard been changed from Louise?) Also
Charles who lived in the 3 storey house on Butt Hill and had the butchers shop
which was later owned by Reg Richardson. There is a photo somewhere (I think in
a book on Whitwell) that shows 2 girls giggling in the Dicken in the distance
you can see a horse standing by Gee's Field, at the bottom of Stoney Hill. This
is where U Charles kept cattle - He supplied meat to the Duke of Portland at
Welbeck Abbey.
I am sure many will remember sledging down Gee's Field and possibly landing in
the Dicken Dyke!
My great great grandfather was Samuel Gee of Firbeck Farm, Steetley who married
Mary Warrener. My mother was Mabel Evelyn Gee.
I have most wonderful memories of life in Whitwell
Hope this is of interest
Happy New Year to All for 2007
Hilary Estrada-Haigh
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