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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Dorset => Topic started by: brionne on Monday 30 September 24 16:29 BST (UK)
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Can anyone throw any light on why there was a very large party of 20 children listed as staying at the Drum Inn September 1939, all except 2 still have not been named. There do not appear to be any adults listed. Any ideas/info appreciated. Thanks Brionne.
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Evacuees awaiting placement possibly??
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I can see several adults there - including the inn keeper but there may be 2 Drum Inn’s in Dorset as I can’t see a lot of redacted entries
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At the Drum Inn at Wonston in Sturminster R.D. I can see a family of 5 called Knight :-\ , one name redacted.
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I’ve now found the Wonstan entry but can’t see anything unusual
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This is the one with all the redactions:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=TNA%2FR39%2F6960%2F6960B%2F015&parentid=TNA%2FR39%2F6960%2F6960B%2F015%2F12
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Thanks for all replies. I do not have a sub for FMPast at present, my image came from A,,,,,try..
FindMyPast is perhaps more up to date, will investigate; mine is a sea of black with just 2 names, one of which is the name I was looking for, actually born in the area. Thanks again Brionne.
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It’s a bit of a mystery this Drum Inn: I get zero newspaper hits for “Drum Inn Wonston” or “Drum Wonston”. And only one spurious hit for “Drum Inn” with the scope limited to Dorset. So, no trace of this establishment.
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If you Google The Drum Inn Hazelbury Bryan ( Wonston is a hamlet here) you will get a few hits.
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@garibbaldired Thanks, I tried that and found out that it was also known as the Drum and Monkey. Also that it is now a residential building. Looking at an OS map I found a candidate, (labelled B.H. on the map linked below), and a quick visit on streetview reveals that the house there is indeed called The Drum and Monkey. The lane that it is on is called Drum Lane.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/106009353#zoom=6&lat=5082&lon=10919&layers=BT (https://maps.nls.uk/view/106009353#zoom=6&lat=5082&lon=10919&layers=BT)
I still haven’t found any newspaper hits for it: presumably it was so far off the beaten track that nothing that happened there ever got mentioned outside Wonston.
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Yes that was what I found too.
Just had a quick look at the newspapers on FindMyPast and the same advice applies: ignore Wonston and enter Hazelbury Bryan instead. There seem to be quite a few references including a report on its impending closure in 1969.
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Can anyone throw any light on why there was a very large party of 20 children listed as staying at the Drum Inn September 1939, all except 2 still have not been named. There do not appear to be any adults listed. Any ideas/info appreciated. Thanks Brionne.
You are looking at the last page which is always a continuation page. These are the people whose medical records in the final clolumn did not fit into their original entry and so have been continued on to the last page. They are generally younger people who were around long enough after 1939 to generate lots of NHS entries.
Debra :)
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At the Drum Inn at Wonston in Sturminster R.D. I can see a family of 5 called Knight :-\ , one name redacted.
Albert Knight still at The Drum Inn in 1948 (Western Gazette, 16 January 1948)
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Many thanks for your time and interest in putting me straight on this query. Brionne.