RootsChat.Com
Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Treetotal on Tuesday 18 April 17 14:48 BST (UK)
-
I would love to known where this house is...it is a divided back postcard dated 1906 and is unposted.
The inscription reads:
"Home! clean Home!
Where love burns brightly for you,
My own Darling.
July 1906
I bought it in King's Lynn...Any ideas welcome.
Thanks for looking.
Carol
-
Could it be a nursing home in North Wales?
-
That thought had occurred to me mike too Mike...it could be anywhere though...may be a convalescent home.
Carol
-
Could it be a nursing home in North Wales?
Absolutely. The proof is there plain for all to see ;D
-
Could it be a nursing home in North Wales?
... or near Southport?
-
Could it be a nursing home in North Wales?
... or near Southport?
It has probably been remodelled so extensively as to make it unrecognizable. ;) ;D
(Lovely house Carol, but not many clues to go on. Lets hope you have as much success with this as you have with your other house postcard. Windows might help identify it if it still stands.)
-
My best guess at this stage would be a country rectory, or possibly a schoolmaster's house. A bit big for a village school, though, and no sign of it being attached to the school (which was common), but I could imagine it as a standalone master's house at a public school.
It looks to have been built all of a piece, and the creepers and mature trees suggest it's been there a while. The stone looks clean, so probably not in an industrial area.
-
Could it be a nursing home in North Wales?
... or near Southport?
It has probably been remodelled so extensively as to make it unrecognizable. ;) ;D
(Lovely house Carol, but not many clues to go on. Lets hope you have as much success with this as you have with your other house postcard. Windows might help identify it if it still stands.)
Or bombed during one of the two wars...but you never know...the other one was a little earlier and is still there ;D
Carol
-
My best guess at this stage would be a country rectory, or possibly a schoolmaster's house. A bit big for a village school, though, and no sign of it being attached to the school (which was common), but I could imagine it as a standalone master's house at a public school.
It looks to have been built all of a piece, and the creepers and mature trees suggest it's been there a while. The stone looks clean, so probably not in an industrial area.
Some good thoughts there Arthur and thanks for joining in...any ideas on the name of the dogs or whether they are related ;D ;D ;D ;D
Carol
-
Is it For Sale
Not 🙃a one looks like that on my road.
I imagine
1906 gentry with servants at my feet😍😬
-
Is it For Sale
That's rather difficult to say as we don't know where it is :-X
-
The black dog is called Nana Carol. She belongs to Darling mentioned in the message. I think the other is stray.
Seriously, who is the P.C. addressed to? Could be a clue. He he/she sign it?
Venelow
-
It isn't addressed to anyone...the only thing written on the back is the message. Nana...of course...why didn't I think of that...The Darling Family lived there ;D
Carol
-
During that era was places of interest names, not put on postcards
Or is it a postcard size photograph
Have you posted the written message😊
-
The windows are very similar in this property(and is it my imagination or is there a triple chimney too,given this is the front elevation and the original the rear?).No doubt wishful thinking as usual.
It may be Kilndown House,Kent.
Regards
Roger
-
During that era was places of interest names, not put on postcards
Or is it a postcard size photograph
Have you posted the written message😊
Have you read the first post?
Carol
-
The windows are very similar in this property(and is it my imagination or is there a triple chimney too,given this is the front elevation and the original the rear?).No doubt wishful thinking as usual.
It may be Kilndown House,Kent.
Regards
Roger
Mmm...worth some consideration Roger...thanks for your interest and for taking the time to search...it was bought in King's Lynn but it could look very different now if it still exists..
Carol
-
During that era was places of interest names, not put on postcards
Or is it a postcard size photograph
Have you posted the written message😊
Not always...this is dated 1906 and as a collector...many of mine have no location printed on them with early dates, if they have it is usually commercial photo postcards for the tourist industry...Here is a scan of the back in case you are in any doubt.
Carol
-
"Home! clean Home!
Where love burns brightly for you,
My own Darling.
July 1906
It says Home dear Home ;D
-
I thought it said clean....that must be a Freudian slip and says a lot about the way my mind works ;D ;D ;D
Thanks for the amendment.
Carol
-
Well I thought "clean home" was a strange thing to say! Glad that got sorted.
Obviously the writer was not intending to mail the card or else it was sent with something else.
I fear this is going to end up like Cazza's house # 12
Venelow
-
I think you could be right...Sigh ::)
Carol
-
Like Arthur, my first thought was that this might be a rectory - it may be just the windows which give that impression.
"Conservatory" on the left, no visible front door or entryway - might this be a view of the side of the house? ... :-\
Sadly no clues in the Spaniel and the Jack Russell. :)
-
Thanks Ruskie for your thoughts...I thought it was a greenhouse but you could be right...I don't think this one would be solved...as you say...it looks like it is a side view. I will keep looking around the King's Lynn/Norfolk area but I don't hold out much hope :-\
Carol
-
No help at all, but who, I wonder, would have a fountain pen filled with red ink to hand.
Banker, solicitor, or someone who lived in a big house ;D
Mike
-
Good afternoon
Could it be a nursing home in North Wales?
Is that before or after the demolition/rebuild of 1906ish ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
John915
-
Good afternoon
Could it be a nursing home in North Wales?
Is that before or after the demolition/rebuild of 1906ish ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
John915
Both at the same time, obviously.
-
Well I wondered if the "W" could refer to Walsoken/Wisbech which isn't far from King's Lynn where I bought it...still looking.
Thanks for your interest.
Carol
-
No help at all, but who, I wonder, would have a fountain pen filled with red ink to hand.
Banker, solicitor, or someone who lived in a big house ;D
Mike
Teacher?
The comments on this thread made me choke on my lunch with all the in jokes! ;D ;D
-
Good one Jan...I wonder what made you think of that!....Could it be remembering all the "Sp" or "Grammar" written in the margins of your text books and the underlining of the text ;D ;D ;D
Carol
-
Good afternoon,
My guess would be "auntie" who had a pen with red ink in it. To correct all her nephews nonsensical gobbledegook.
John915
PS, no luck with the house as yet.
-
Good one Jan...I wonder what made you think of that!....Could it be remembering all the "Sp" or "Grammar" written in the margins of your text books and the underlining of the text ;D ;D ;D
Carol
Surely it would have been red chalk for the slates then ;D ;D ;D
Mike
-
Chalk and slate....you're giving your age away now mike...you will be suggesting a quill next ;D ;D
Carol
-
Could it be a side view of Kelmscott Manor, William Morris` house?
In the Cotswolds.
Viktoria.
-
Similar style, but the windows are different.
-
I've tried looking at other buildings designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter,who designed Kilndown
Vicarage(later,Kilndown House),but there are none that I can see that have what look like trefoil headed windows,nor any that are in Norfolk.
Regards
Roger
-
Could it be a side view of Kelmscott Manor, William Morris` house?
In the Cotswolds.
Viktoria.
Thanks for looking Victoria...I see similarities but as Jan says, the windows are different.
Carol
-
Thanks for your interest Roger and for the name of the window design which will help in the search...I couldn't see anything similar in the Norfolk area either.
Carol
-
Perhaps a builder would know what type of brick was
used in the building of the house. :o
-
Perhaps a builder would know what type of brick was
used in the building of the house. :o
I doubt it.
(I am not sure that it is brick.)
Carol, I think you are correct about the construction on the left being a greenhouse rather than a conservatory. It doesn't look very grand. I thought it might have been connected to the house, but looking again, I don't think it is. :)
Note the different chimney stack styles. Does this mean that the plainer built ones face the back or side of the house and the slightly more decorative ones face the front for "show", or might it mean that this part of the house is of a newer construction? The fancier stacks are in groups of two or three and look to be built on an angle. I was wondering if the front if the house may be completely different style wise? :-\
-
No help at all, but who, I wonder, would have a fountain pen filled with red ink to hand.
Banker, solicitor, or someone who lived in a big house ;D
Mike
I haven't read through everything as yet but Mike, your 'good' observation made me laugh ;)
It's definitely something outstanding, not what most would use, maybe just someone artistic who liked colour :-\
Annie
-
Carol - - this thread is worth reading just for the laughs!! :D
I have nothing intelligent (or otherwise) to add!
Wiggy
-
Hi Wiggy....I'm glad that you have found it amusing....everyone has been so much fun and really helpful that I was going to invite everyone back to ours for tea and cake...then I realised what a ridiculous idea it was.....................I'm out of tea bags ::) ;D ;D ;D
Carol
-
Perhaps a builder would know what type of brick was
used in the building of the house. :o
I doubt it.
(I am not sure that it is brick.)
Carol, I think you are correct about the construction on the left being a greenhouse rather than a conservatory. It doesn't look very grand. I thought it might have been connected to the house, but looking again, I don't think it is. :)
Note the different chimney stack styles. Does this mean that the plainer built ones face the back or side of the house and the slightly more decorative ones face the front for "show", or might it mean that this part of the house is of a newer construction? The fancier stacks are in groups of two or three and look to be built on an angle. I was wondering if the front if the house may be completely different style wise? :-\
Just had another good look Ruskie and you could be right....not helped by the fact that it looks like the photo was taken from the side elevation rather than the front. I may crop off the chimney arrangement and see if I can find a match. I wonder now if it could be a college or boarding school.
Thanks again.
Carol
-
If it still stands it is likely to be a hotel or institution of some sort I think. I did look at a few searches for trefoil stone mullioned windows and chimney stacks earlier, but found nothing promising.
-
I agree Ruskie, it isn't large enough to be a boarding school now, more likely a hotel or care home or divided up into flats.
Don't worry about the tea bags Carol, we'll bring our own, you just supply the cakes. Better still, once we identify the photo, we'll all have a picnic on that lawn.
-
The grass has it been identified.
The features may have been imported.
the lawn and land look flat ,design of the stonework is also interesting . :o
-
I don't mean now Ruskie and Jan...I meant when the photo was taken...How about Pimms on the lawn instead ;D ;D
I thought I had found it but it's not right ::) :
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39593382.html
Carol
-
The grass has it been identified.
The features may have been imported.
the lawn and land look flat ,design of the stonework is also interesting . :o
Scribble....I think the grass is circa 1906 and no sign of moles or weeds ::)
Write out 50 times "Must try harder!
Carol
-
:)Is the postcard made with homemade paper or mass
Produced😊 ;D
-
:)Is the postcard made with homemade paper or mass
Produced😊 ;D
How is knowing that going to help identify the house, which is what Carol is asking?
-
Carol, there are quite a lot of similarities with the 'Rightmove' house .... Particularly windows, and possibly construction materials.
Scribble, what generally happens with these searches (we do see quite a lot of them on rootschat and the threads are very popular) is that people put forward observations which lead to key word searches, and often the location is found through diligent searching. Perhaps if you keep that in mind you may be able to come up with some useful suggestions.
-
The grass has it been identified.
Yes, it's definitely grass.
-
;D ;D ;D ;D
-
More seriously, none of my searches have come up with anything useful. Yes, it's a lovely big family house but not really big enough to get into the manor house/notable building category. If it still exists, I doubt whether there are any images on the internet, but it would be great to be proved wrong.
-
I agree Mike. I hope that as it is a bit more modest, that it has survived. I can't see much that gives clues as to the location though.
-
Perhaps a builder would know what type of brick was used in the building of the house. :o
I doubt it.
(I am not sure that it is brick.)
On the other hand, building materials can give good clues to the general area. Can anyone hazard a guess as to the kind of stone? Limestone? And slate for the roof?
...Note the different chimney stack styles. Does this mean that the plainer built ones face the back or side of the house and the slightly more decorative ones face the front for "show", or might it mean that this part of the house is of a newer construction? The fancier stacks are in groups of two or three and look to be built on an angle. I was wondering if the front if the house may be completely different style wise? :-\
Brick for the chimney stacks, and I'd agree that possibly they went to town a bit on the ones that were more visible from the front. But I'm a bit intrigued by the left hand chimney stack. It's in a much darker brick, and there aren't any pots on top. Why?
-
It looks like limestone to me, or a light coloured sandstone. The blocks are very regular in size.
And yes, slate roof and brick chimney stacks.
-
This probably won't be of any help but flat land and limestone could be Lincolnshire.
-
I reckon that this is the side of the house ... no imposing front door, portico, garden beds.
Instead I see a plain but well mown lawn (with dozing dogs), a blank wall with chimney stack, and a titchy conservatory...
I'm ready for that Pimms ;D
-
Thanks for your interest and comments both amusing and informative...I can't see me getting out the Pimms anytime soon though ::)
Carol
-
Good afternoon,
The grass has it been identified.
Yes, it's definitely grass.
For those watching in black and white, the grass may be green. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D.
Carol, there are quite a lot of similarities with the 'Rightmove' house .... Particularly windows, and possibly construction materials.
I would say not the same house, the views shown do not match so would be the other side of the rightmove house. Looking on street view it doesn't have trefoil windows on the other side but flat topped ones as the bit on the right has in photo. Also has a large gravel drive looking on satelite.
The stone used is regular dressed in brick shape and size, not sure what they call them.
John915
-
Thanks John for the heads up on the colour of the grass as I thought it was brown :P ;D ;D ;D
I think we had already decided that the house wasn't right but I thought there were similarities in the brick and tile department ;)
1252 views and no match...oh well, it has been fun ;D
Carol
-
I don't know how many views I've had ,but I've used the following search terms in various combinations from the groups:-
Rectory,Vicarage,Parsonage,Manse,Presbytery,Seminary,Hotel,Care Home,Lost House
Mullioned,Tracery,Trefoil,Lancet,Gothic,Triple Light
King's Lynn,Norfolk,East Anglia
If you'll forgive the cryptic crudity,all
County Ampersand Virtuous
(Clue -see "Kipper Family")
Regards
Roger
-
Are they all surnames in your Family History or your sleuthing terms ;D ;D ;D
Thanks for your time Roger...I'm all trefoiled out ::) ;D ;D
Carol
-
County ampersand virtuous at all
-
Hi all,
Found this and thought maybe it could be the front of the house.
Plenty of chimney stacks, similar windows etc., but if it is at the front, the greenhouse is in the wrong place :(
It was built by George Edmund Street, so I've been ploughing through his work, but found nothing yet.
http://www.francisfrith.com/wantage/wantage-the-vicarage-from-the-church-tower-c1960_w251060
Yorkslass
-
Hey I am on my iPhone, but looks like a plastic down pipe to me 😊
Are they garden rubbish bins down the side of the house the "two with wheels "😊
-
Hi all,
Found this and thought maybe it could be the front of the house.
Plenty of chimney stacks, similar windows etc., but if it is at the front, the greenhouse is in the wrong place :(
It was built by George Edmund Street, so I've been ploughing through his work, but found nothing yet.
http://www.francisfrith.com/wantage/wantage-the-vicarage-from-the-church-tower-c1960_w251060
Yorkslass
That's pretty close Yorkslass....we must be getting warm now...thanks for looking :D
Carol
-
Hey I am on my iPhone, but looks like a plastic down pipe to me 😊
Are they garden rubbish bins down the side of the house the "two with wheels "😊
So are we looking for plastic fall pipes and wheelie bins now?....you will have us looking out for poo bags for the dogs next ::) anyway who gave you permission to come off the naughty step :o ;D ;D ;D
Carol
-
Hey I am on my iPhone, but looks like a plastic down pipe to me 😊
Are they garden rubbish bins down the side of the house the "two with wheels "😊
1906 photograph. Is that an ipad I can spy through the window?
-
Hey I am on my iPhone, but looks like a plastic down pipe to me 😊
Are they garden rubbish bins down the side of the house the "two with wheels "😊
1906 photograph. Is that an ipad I can spy through the window?
Don't forget the satellite dish on the roof, hidden just behind the chimney on the right. ;D
-
Deleted as it posted twice!
-
...and the little green men of Scribble ancestry :P ;D ;D ;D now where is my glass of red medicine ::) ;D ;D ;D
Carol
-
We can't actually see it, but I expect a Morrisons lorry is parked round the back of the house..... ::)
-
Probably dropping off the Pimms ;D
Carol
-
Although I've had no luck finding the house, I am loving this thread, I can't stop laughing at the posts ;D ;D ;D
Ahhh, Jen, the good old Morrisons truck - I'd almost forgotten about that. It must there somewhere ;D
I'm sure Yorkslass will come up trumps before long ;)
-
Hey I am on my iPhone, but looks like a plastic down pipe to me 😊
Are they garden rubbish bins down the side of the house the "two with wheels "😊
1906 photograph. Is that an ipad I can spy through the window?
No Mike....it's Scribble with his colouring book....or should that be Scribble pad ;D
Carol
-
I may have found the dog close by at Downham Market Old Rectory(demollshed 1960?).
Regards
Roger
-
Nice one Roger...I hope that man has a poo bag with him...because that woman has her eye on him ;D
Carol
-
Yorkslass, the Wantage Rectory looks like a very similar building. I got a bit excited there for a minute, but those chimneys are different I think. Some of the stacks on the mystery house look to be double/triples and they are constructed on the diagonal. (sorry don't know the technical terms).
Roger. Downham Market Old Rectory image - sorry, the dog is wrong. Right colour, but wrong breed.
You don't live in North Wales by any chance do you Scribble? :(
-
Roger. Downham Market Old Rectory image - sorry, the dog is wrong. Right colour, but wrong breed.
Do we know its name though that might give us a clue? ;D ;D
-
Sorry,Ruskie,but I do!(live in North Wales).
Regards
Roger
-
Hey I am on my iPhone, but looks like a plastic down pipe to me 😊
If your iPhone 'looks like a plastic down pipe'....
I suggest you either take it back to the shop or go to specsavers.....enough said ::)
Annie
-
The downpipe on the "unknown " house looks like it is
made of plastic . ::)
-
Nothing to stop an old house having new downpipes, I don't suppose - - if it has been photoshopped - - but why would you?? ::)
-
Sorry,Ruskie,but I do!(live in North Wales).
Regards
Roger
I was trying to determine Scribble's location as I thought she might be aliasing as someone else (who lives there). ;) :)
Scribble, The postcard is dated 1906 so the downpipe will be dated prior to that. Downpipes in 1906 were not made of plastic, rather, I suspect, a metal of some sort, possibly cast iron.
-
Send all info.to Time Team.
-
I know who you had in mind,Ruskie,and recognise all the references!I did offer to visit the infamous site once before to "resolve" the issue.
Regards
Roger
-
The downpipe on the "unknown " house looks like it is
made of plastic . ::)
Before posting on these Identify sites, it is always better to check facts to avoid making silly mistakes. The postcard is dated 1906 but a quick check shows that
"The first plastic based on a synthetic polymer was made from phenol and formaldehyde, with the first viable and cheap synthesis methods invented in 1907, by Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American living in New York state."
-
"The first plastic based on a synthetic polymer was made from phenol and formaldehyde, with the first viable and cheap synthesis methods invented in 1907, by Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American living in New York state."
Are you suggesting that the plastic downpipes must have been produced using a non-viable, expensive synthesis method a year or two earlier?
-
Of course! ;D Unless of course the house belonged to Mr Baekeland and he was experimenting in England.
-
Good morning,
Plastics were the result of the war time shortage of metals. The first pressurised water pipes were used in the Netherlands in the 50s. Guttering and downpipes followed in the 60s and soon after, soil pipes came in.
In Victorian times virtually every house had cast iron guttering and down pipes. Many older larger houses and mansions retained their lead systems. Still to be seen today on many a NT property etc.
John915
PS, scribble may have been referring to the rightmove photo when she/he mentioned bins. I think there is one to the right hand side.
-
The person who told us all about the nursing home in N Wales hasn't been active on here since early December 2016 so it's a bit unfair to refer back to those comments.
Pat
-
Roopat, speaking for myself, if you are unhappy with any comment I have made on this thread you are very welcome to do a 'report to moderator' :)
-
It is just a bit of banter Pat - no harm intended.
-
No blood, no foul.
-
Good afternoon,
Probably having a good laugh at us while he enjoys his horlicks.
John915
-
This house has had a lot of viewings but no sale yet ;D
Carol
-
This house has had a lot of viewings but no sale yet ;D
Carol
It must be the ghost, putting viewers off.
-
Twinned with Borley Rectory then?
Regards
Roger
-
Twinned with Borley Rectory then?
Regards
Roger
Googled it and got a shock - a very similar house.
-
I was looking for another photo of the vicarage at Wantage found by Yorkslass and this came up, It is called St Mary's House, Wantage, so could be the vicarage or another house. It is a bit clearer view.
-
After looking on the Internet for this house.
I am amazed how many houses have "disappeared "into
the sea due to soil erosion .
Must be awful to know that your home will be gone forever .
-
Trishanne,
This is where I first found the old photo of the parsonage at Wantage.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jz1/
I don't really think it's Carole's house, but the similarities struck me.
Yorkslass
-
Roopat, speaking for myself, if you are unhappy with any comment I have made on this thread you are very welcome to do a 'report to moderator' :)
JenB I felt uncomfortable with the tone of some comments and felt I wanted to offer my opinion openly.
Pat
-
I think this house may have been a casualty of the war or was pulled down to make way for a motorway or a retail park ::)
I have been amazed at the lengths people have gone to in the search for a location. Also the lighthearted banter that has added humour and a great sense of fun to the topic. It makes for a pleasant distraction from searching for relatives that often don't want to be found.
Thank you all ;)
Carol
-
What a shame if that has happened, it must have been a house of some significance to be on a postcard I'd have thought. Very unhelpful that the writer didn't sign it, or at least post it to give us a clue.
-
This house has had a lot of viewings but no sale yet ;D
Carol
🤔🤔 Mmmm ....Perhaps it's time to call in Kirsty and Phil!!
-
I've had no luck finding the darned place either and I've even resorted to using words such as historic, wedding venue.
It crossed my mind that this scene could be the rear of a house and most images I've seen are of house frontages. Bearing in mind that every generation modernises their home I'm wondering if the front and the rear of the house were built in different centuries, and as the front is often the one to be updated there's every possibility that one of us has dismissed the house as not being the correct one.
-
I've had no luck finding the darned place either and I've even resorted to using words such as historic, wedding venue.
It crossed my mind that this scene could be the rear of a house and most images I've seen are of house frontages. Bearing in mind that every generation modernises their home I'm wondering if the front and the rear of the house were built in different centuries, and as the front is often the one to be updated there's every possibility that one of us has dismissed the house as not being the correct one.
And this might have been the case even when first built, as already mentioned. The house in the photo is in a very plain gothic revival style, the front may well have been something much fancier.
-
Got it!!
http://viewfinder.historicengland.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=52151&index=73320&mainquery=&searchtype=all&form=home
Yorkslass
-
By Jingo, so you have!
One of the dogs is even there too.
-
Well done Yorkslass ;D
I'm pleased to see it is a vicarage
-
Got it!!
Yorkslass
http://viewfinder.historicengland.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=52151&index=73320&mainquery=&searchtype=all&form=home
:o I'm amazed, and very happy! Well done!
Now you're going to have to tell us how you managed to find it! :)
-
Brilliant Yorkielass. Brilliant!
-
Got it!!
http://viewfinder.historicengland.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=52151&index=73320&mainquery=&searchtype=all&form=home
Yorkslass
WOW..... :o :o :o :o what a star...I never thought in my wildest dreams that this one would be found after the many hours put in by so many Rootschatters on this topic!!! I am over the moon...your dogged determination has paid off...again ;D
My OH said he doubted that it would be found as there was so little to go on...and I said if Yorkslass can't find...then it's not out there.
Thanks so much :-* :-*
Carol
-
I'm seriously impressed - and as Ruskie said, please tell us how you found it!
As it's still in use, photos of the garden don't seem to be available, but there's some information about it at
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101180497-the-rectory-dorchester#.WQDG_NzTXDc
and a recent photo of the front at
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101180497-the-rectory-dorchester/photos/55968#.WQDHMtzTXDc
And if anyone would like their own copy, there's another postcard currently for sale on eBay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Postcard-Dorchester-Oxon-The-Vicarage-/252885303810?hash=item3ae1238202:g:COwAAOSwNRdX-9ri
Interestingly, that too has a "W" written on it - so for our next challenge.....
-
Here's what the front looks like.
-
Hello all,
Thanks for your kind comments.
Like most others, I was convinced it was a vicarage/rectory/parsonage, and did all the usual search terms - trefoil-cusped-arch etc.
In the end, the brilliant search term I used on the Viewfinder site was ..... "light gothic house" - because that's what I saw.
I know not why the picture came up, as that term doesn't seem to be in the caption ???
So, pure luck!
Yorkslass
-
I'm sure Yorkslass will come up trumps before long ;)
Just quoting my own post from last week, I knew Yorkslass would find it if it was out there! Well done, super sleuthing once again ;D
-
Amazing find - rootschat needs to start handing out certificates :)
-
Aw thanks Jool.
Just wish my "super sleuthing" extended to Cazza's missing houses (especially no. 12)
Yorkslass
-
Aw thanks Jool.
Just wish my "super sleuthing" extended to Cazza's missing houses (especially no. 12)
Yorkslass
Maybe we should re-visit Cazza's missing houses, you never know what may have appeared on the net since we last searched. (I can hear you all groaning from here ;D ;D )
-
Good evening,
Now who feels stupid, I used to deliver ice cream to the co-op in the high st. Although in my defence you can't see the house from the main rd, except the chimneys perhaps.
John915
-
Good evening,
Now who feels stupid, I used to deliver ice cream to the co-op in the high st. Although in my defence you can't see the house from the main rd, except the chimneys perhaps.
John915
We forgive you John, you were probably too busy slurping your 99 to notice ;D
-
Brilliant work Yorkslass.
Now we need to work out who lived there in 1906 to call it home, dear home. Or were they just waxing lyrical?
-
I've been looking, Groom. ;D
Not easy to find, but I think I've got the 1901 details.
Living in the vicarage, was Nathaniel Castleton Stephen Poyntz/Poynter (54) and his wife Helen Willes Poynter (37)
RG13 Piece number 1140 Folio 115 Page 1
They're still there in 1911.
Yorkslass
-
Good find Yorkslass, here he is on The Peerage
http://thepeerage.com/p25062.htm#i250612
-
Well done Yorkslass.
Now back to number 12 :( :-X
-
Brilliant detective work Yorkslass. :)
-
I've been looking, Groom. ;D
Not easy to find, but I think I've got the 1901 details.
Living in the vicarage, was Nathaniel Castleton Stephen Poyntz/Poynter (54) and his wife Helen Willes Poynter (37)
RG13 Piece number 1140 Folio 115 Page 1
They're still there in 1911.
Yorkslass
Brilliant Yorkslass 8) that was my next job so thanks for that :-*
Carol
-
Good find Yorkslass, here he is on The Peerage
http://thepeerage.com/p25062.htm#i250612
That's a great find Jool....thanks for that...quite impressive ;D
Carol
-
Don't you feel sorry for them and their children having to fill in forms with all those individual/odd names!! :D :D
-
Good evening,
Now who feels stupid, I used to deliver ice cream to the co-op in the high st. Although in my defence you can't see the house from the main rd, except the chimneys perhaps.
John915
Aw John...so close yet so far ::)...but don't beat yourself up and thanks for your efforts ;)
Carol
-
Wonderful! That's what I like to read "almost unadulterated exterior". That makes me very happy! ;D
-
For those people who don't understand the references to Cazz No 12, here's a link to a long search from a while ago. Warning there are 63 pages !!!!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=717629.0
-
For those people who don't understand the references to Cazz No 12, here's a link to a long search from a while ago. Warning there are 63 pages !!!!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=717629.0
And another 32 in part 2!!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=727464.0
-
Good afternoon,
I did bring that thread bringing all cazza's unsolved WAIs to the top of the list. Don't know how many looks it may have had but there have been no replies, yet.
John915
-
I'd forgotten about part two Jan. It was and still is a very interesting search. I still think about it when I see similar photos, but like this one we have been looking for now, it looks as if it is the back of a house and we have no idea what the front looks like.
-
Back again,
Correction, Ruskie and shaun have been looking at no 234.
John915
-
Sorry but am I missing something or have I come onto the wrong post ???
Carol
-
Good afternoon,
You are in the right place Carol but you need to read from reply 136 where Trishann put up a link to Cazza's WAI 12. I had already tried bringing all the unsolved WAIs to the top of the list again.
John915
-
Got it!!
http://viewfinder.historicengland.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=52151&index=73320&mainquery=&searchtype=all&form=home
Yorkslass
I've only been 'lurking' on this thread because it's a style of house that I've always liked, even though there wasn't a snowball's chance of me identifying it.
As it turns out, one line on my father's side came from Dorchester and did all their marrying etc at St Peter & St Paul (Dorchester Abbey). They would have seen the Rectory being built.
On my mother's side, there's a different sort of connection. The photographer Henry Taunt was a major character in Oxford (for various reasons!) and my grandfather's family knew him. Taunt's chief assistant was Randolph Adams who married my great-grandmother after they were both widowed, becoming granddad's step-father.
Thanks Yorkslass, you've made my day ;D
Carol
-
That's a lovely story Carol...so pleased for you...if you click on the paper clip beneath the photo you can save it to your computer :D
Carol
-
Hello Carol (both Carols ;D )
Thanks CarolA3 for your comments.
Being insatiably curious, I had a look for Randolph Adams, and saw that he took many of the later photographs that bore Henry Taunt's name.
Who knows, it could have been your great grandfather who actually took that photo!
Yorkslass
-
That would be amazing Miss Marple aka Yorkslass ;D
Carol
-
As you say, it's quite possible that this picture was one of Randolph's but sadly we'll never know because Taunt, as the employer, would have held the copyright anyway :(
Still, it's the first time I've found any family link to one of these quests so I'm happy ;D
Carol
-
I've been looking, Groom. ;D
Not easy to find, but I think I've got the 1901 details.
Living in the vicarage, was Nathaniel Castleton Stephen Poyntz/Poynter (54) and his wife Helen Willes Poynter (37)
RG13 Piece number 1140 Folio 115 Page 1
They're still there in 1911.
Yorkslass
Hi, I hope you're well.
Sorry, I have to correct the surname. It's Poyntz not Poynter. Willis Minor not Willes ;)