Miscellaneous

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Additional Notes

Image 1

Wray House was a convalescent hospital for injured soldiers, a group of whom are seen here with the doctor and nursing staff. The Tatham connection is the left-most nurse, Grace Barker, niece of Arthur Roberts, Rector of Tatham. She is named on the WW1 memorial in Tatham Church.

Image 2

The location is 150 yards east of Lanshaw, on a track (now a public footpath) which clearly was at the time of the photo used for vehicle access.
The date is probably 1938. The identities of the people are uncertain, except for the man with the moustache who is Thomas Henry Wilson of Greenhall, grandfather of the owner of the photo.
The vehicle is a Ford grocer’s van, last registered in January 1938. On its door is written “Phone 7 Bentham”, which, together with the vehicle registration, has allowed identification of the owners as J. Foster Ltd., Grocer and Confectioner, of 2 Main Street – site of today’s Co-op. We are grateful to Glenn Swarbrick of Lancashire Archive Service for his help in identifying the vehicle and its owner.

Image 4

Gwrych Castle stands on a wooded hillside above Abergele on the North Wales coast. Once a grand private house, but now derelict, it was open to the public between 1948 and 1968 as “The Showplace of Wales”. The journey there from Tatham (now 2 hours) would have been a long one in 1952.

Image 7

Mrs. Jackson (wife of stone-mason) resident Garden Cottage Wennington in the 1920s, and member of Tatham Church Choir. Baby in pram Leslie Jackson (later worked for Ronnie Taylor). Girl on L possibly Margaret Jennings.

Image 8

Edwin “Ted” Martin was a postman for the Wennington area from c. 1934 – 1951.

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