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Messages - Keith Sherwood

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: The history of The Clickham Inn/Station Hotel, Blencowe, Nr Penrith
« on: Thursday 08 May 25 15:50 BST (UK)  »
...and today did eventually revisit The Clickham Inn.  To discover from an employee there that the previous landlord (the one I'd met in 2021) had left in July 2024, with the new couple running the place now having opened up again as recently as March 2025.  They were not actually there, and I asked the man whether the b/w framed photo of Hannah and Doris was still on display.  It was, and I went to have a look at it again.
Now here's the strange bit.  He said whenever someone took it down or tried to hang it in a different place in the pub, weird things happened.  Objects fell over for no reason at all, and he also said that "strange figures sometimes appear".  He didn't elaborate on the details.
Spooky stuff indeed!  So I must return before I head back to East Anglia and talk to the new landlord about the provenance of all this and fill him in on all known details of the mother/daughter Lancaster.
Keith

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: The history of The Clickham Inn/Station Hotel, Blencowe, Nr Penrith
« on: Thursday 08 May 25 09:27 BST (UK)  »
I see that The Fish Hotel in Penrith that the father - and grandfather - John Lancaster ran was demolished in 1972 and made way for the present day Poet's Walk.
And also that it appears now that Hannah Lancaster lived to the ripe old age of 98 or 99.  I wonder what she made of the place where she and/or her daughter presumably grew up, disappearing like that.  Though Doris had predeceased her in 1970 and wouldn't have experienced this.
Just spent a very enjoyable time at the May Day Parade in Penrith, with also a drive past of vintage tractors and cars.  A lovely old market town looking at its best last Monday...

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: The history of The Clickham Inn/Station Hotel, Blencowe, Nr Penrith
« on: Friday 21 February 25 01:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi HuxterNZ, and welcome to Rootschat!
How very exciting! I didn't manage to pop into the Clickham Inn last year when staying once more in nearby Sowerby Row.  But I certainly shall when we return there in early May for a week.  And to tell the present landlord that the younger woman in that b/w photo they have displayed in the pub has living descendants still.
A wonderful story, this...
Keith

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Other Countries - Resources / Re: East India Company
« on: Monday 10 February 25 15:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again, Shaun J...
Very good to see you as ever helping people out on these Rootschat boards.  Just came across this thread as I was discovering that someone had reconnected with me after a 12 year lapse on the Norfolk boards (as opposed to Broads!).
Wanted to tell you that I've just finished reading the "magisterial" history of The East India Company, "The Anarchy",  by William Dalrymple.  And what an exhausting but remarkable read it was, with all the almost endless warfare and greed! 
Keith

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Norfolk / Re: Where did Francis DUFFIELD, married in 1778 in Great Melton, originate from?
« on: Monday 10 February 25 15:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again, Kirsty, and does it really matter if another dozen or so years have flown by and we're all that much older now😀!
But reading between the lines, that sounds like a tragically early death in the family of your uncle Glenn in 1980, with my Maths informing me that he would only have been 18 or 19 years old then...
Haven't looked at my DUFFIELD family branch for a while, but will revisit it now to refresh my memory...
Keith

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Whereabouts of Benjamin and Rosa LEVY in 1841 Census
« on: Thursday 19 December 24 12:57 GMT (UK)  »
Daniel,
That’s very exciting, and welcome to Rootschat!  There used to be a rule on here that you had to have posted three times before you could use the PM (Personal Message) facility.  I’ll try contacting there…

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World War Two / Re: Captain Leif K Strand WW2 Norwegian Navy?
« on: Friday 15 November 24 18:17 GMT (UK)  »
Bbart,
Very many thanks for that too...a man of many parts therefore, this Leif K Strand.  I still have the Harvard Club soup bowl and saucer with the Harvard crest on it that he gave me as a memento of my visit there over 55 years ago.
Keith

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World War Two / Re: Captain Leif K Strand WW2 Norwegian Navy?
« on: Thursday 14 November 24 20:40 GMT (UK)  »
Gosh, Dave,
That’s amazing.  He very clearly addressed himself as “Captain” in 1968/9 so maybe he had some kind of promotion of rank post-war.  I can’t imagine he’d have been able to pull the wool over those who ran the prestigious Harvard Club. Though Air Force rather than Navy is a surprise…very many thanks again,
Keith

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World War Two / Re: Captain Leif K Strand WW2 Norwegian Navy?
« on: Thursday 14 November 24 16:23 GMT (UK)  »
Dave,
Thanks so much for that.  And all those details fit very well! When I met him he was living in The Bronx...I'll have a look on Anc* myself now too.
Keith

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