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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Essex => Topic started by: mostadome on Friday 05 October 12 21:16 BST (UK)
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Hi all, I have four old photos taken around the thundersley area about 1920 do you recognise anyone ?.
Please reply if anyone is familiar to you, thanks.
Sue.
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picture 2
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picture 3
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picture4
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Hi,
The second photo......White Hart in Thundersley?
Nanny Jan
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Thank you. My relations lived in Thundersley for a few years, my Father was John William Bellamy, brothers Fred, Ernie , Henry Richard Bellamy. thanks
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Hi
Sorry I can't help with any individual, but the pub shown behind the charabanc is very likely to be the White Hart - the bay window immediately behind the vehicle is, I think still there, and certainly other sources show it as a Baddow Brewery house around 1900. Also the vehicle has an HJ registration which is/was an Essex series.
The school photograph looks as if it was posed outside the old school in Church Road, part of which at least was constructed from/cladded with corrugated metal sheeting. I remember it being the library and scout hut in the 1960s.
If you can get a copy, Terry Babbington's book Thundersley a Pictorial History has a number of 1920s photographs including the school with some of the individuals named which may help
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Further to my last I've just found my copy of Babbington's book and photograph no. 104 shows the Thundersley football team c. 1922 and it identifies Johnny Bamber as the goalkeeper. I notice from your other posts you are related to a Bamber,
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Hello Wesley. Thanks for your reply, I met John Bambers daughter in August. We had a long chat. We had lots of photos to share. It was nice to see what my relations looked like. We both had the same book on Thundersley. Her father was in there. Thank you very much for your reply. :)
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The man in the raincoat on the right is my uncle Henry Richard Bellamy. He lived to be 96 years old.
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You are most welcome - Thundersley is a main focus of my research having grown up there and being descended from the Scudder and Bridge lines, both of which seem to have had a long history in the area.
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Hi. I notice that you said that were descended from the Scudders. My 4 x great grandmother, Rebecca Wisbey, married a John Scudder in 1805. He died in 1821. Is he a relation? I'm trying to find her birth but having no luck. I have posted a question about her on here.
Thanks.
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Hi I have nothing to add to the pictures or names but as people are interested in Thundersley,Bluebird driven by Malcolm Campbell was raced down the hill past St Peters Church in the 1920's.