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A breakdown of possible area's that the cottages are in for ref -

20 Clay Lane (now Turner Rd)  Birth place of my father & home to the Wiltshire family (Head of the family was my Grandfather Arthur 1920's >


Weeley village,,,the Wiltshire family lived at 4 or 5 Thorpe Rd around 1935, (Mr Flint was thier neighbour ).....They then moved to the western end of the village to a house on the Colchester Rd just past the Black Boy pub (still there) in around 1940..My Uncle Frank 85yrs, remembers that his Dad Arthur rented the house form a farmer name of Mr Lord from Bromley village. (tenuous i know but its piecing it all together )

Severall's Hospital area any time after 1920's >....my late Grandfather Arthur Wiltshire was a patient there  in 1958 > ( I have letters that he wrote to my father in 1958....The photo was in the same keepsake box.!!!! Might be a complete red herring but filling in some big gaps

As an aside...my Mother's family were residents of The Limes (a  Victorian double fronted detached house next door to the Blackboy Pub ..west side)


spk soon

Derrick

Barry,

My father lived in Clay Lane..No 20, but that was in the 30's and 40's ,,,i have no idea of what the house/cottages were like then (they were not an affluent family)...currently researching the Mile End area ...do you have any idea of a good reference to area at that time ?

thanks

Derrick

Hi Barry,

Thanks for taking the time to do some investigating for me,

That's a shame but almost what i expected, now are the house still there in Turner Rd (old Clay Lane) ?...i expect not.... would it have been an area that i might get some old postcard pictures of in the Colchester archives ?...i have a photo in Dad's old box of letters to my Grandfather but sadly no date or address ..i could scan it and put in on to see if you might recognise the area etc

Got lots of q's will spk soon

thanks for all the tips ..i'll followthem up

Derrick

Hi Barry,

Newbie here so please bear with ;

My late father was from Colchester in 1923 (Clay Lane, Mile End),and then moved to 128 Magdalen Street around 1930, ..i googled the address and found you post.

Would you know if the house is still there ?, i live in Bedford and am not familiar with Colchester 2009, any tips on any archives and photo's of that period..and up to WW2. My father must have spent a lot of time in around Colchester ..they finally moved to the village of Weeley.

I am currently researching my family history .(initially on my fathers side) any help or advice on this would be much appreciated.

Kind Reagrds

Derrick