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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Newbold school date ?
« on: Monday 31 March 25 18:19 BST (UK)  »
There appears to be some rough stonework as well as brickwork in the photo. This does not appear to match Newbold Leics in current photos of the school https://www.newbold-cecp.leics.sch.uk/children/gallery/

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Derbyshire / Re: The Freeing of Willington Toll Bridge 1898: Has anyone got a copy of the book?
« on: Wednesday 25 October 23 17:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi, for anyone interested in the bridge, a local amateur local historian is writing up the story of the bridge, including the toll house and the freeing of the tolls. This will be available before long in digitial form. The Willington History group has a few books of the story pubished at the centenary of the freeing of the bridge too.
Best wishes
Tony

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Lancashire / Re: Bootle Grammar School?
« on: Friday 11 October 19 19:38 BST (UK)  »
Did you find what you needed. There's a Bootle History facebook page you could join. I was also looking for information on Bootle Boys Grammar School and they were helpful. It did have links with the Technical School, and was partly on the same site, I understand.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1596115757343049/

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Are there directories covering Stamford Hill and Upper Clapton c1825 (Powles)
« on: Wednesday 07 August 19 11:29 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much. Yes, he was described at living in Stamford Hill on his marriage, and was very possibly living with his brother at Summit House (now long gone) before his marriage. On the baptism of their first child at St John-at-Hackney, his address is given as Upper Clapton, suggesting he set up home there with Janet, not so far from his brother's family at Summit House.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Are there directories covering Stamford Hill and Upper Clapton c1825 (Powles)
« on: Wednesday 07 August 19 10:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Does anyone know if there are any directories that cover residents of Stamford Hill and particularly Upper Clapton c1825. I am trying to find where Alfred Williams Powles was living in Upper Clapton on his marriage in 1825, and before he moved to Liverpool c1827.

His brother John Diston Powles lived at the very grand Summit House in Stamford Hill nearby.

If anyone is interested in the Powles family descending from Richard and Delania Powles, on which I am doing a local history project, I can point you to a range of resources.

Grateful thanks

Tony

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World War Two / Re: Finding date of birth for war records
« on: Wednesday 01 May 19 15:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much. Lovely to see the photo and the biographical details.

Best wishes

Tony

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World War Two / Re: Finding date of birth for war records
« on: Tuesday 30 April 19 22:32 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again Medpat. So Jean died in Canada. Is that information in Ancestry, or elsewhere?

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World War Two / Re: Finding date of birth for war records
« on: Tuesday 30 April 19 22:21 BST (UK)  »
Mega thanks for both those tips. I'm using FindmyPast, not Ancestry, but see I can do the same using the maiden name as keyword.

And the GRO thing is great, that will be very helpful too.





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World War Two / Re: Finding date of birth for war records
« on: Tuesday 30 April 19 20:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Medpat. How do you manage to find additional offspring, only based on a mother's name?

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