I'm struggling please help

[wend66]

Hello Julie and Heather

I will print off this thread and see what I can find next time we go.

My husbands aunt  is a residential home there and we go to see her when we can, but we live in Northampton so have to arrange things so we can stay for a day or two.

Will let you know if I find anything

Wendy

[wend66]

Hello Julie and Heather

Just to let you know we went to Chard at the weekend but the museum was closed for the winter    and I don't think it opens again until after Easter.

I took a couple of photos, one is of an old lace mill that has been refurbished and is now the Library and the council office and a couple of blue plaques about the lace trade.

If you would like to see them please send me your email address in a PM and I will send them to you.

I will still go and ask in the museum as soon as it reopens.

Happy new year
Wendy

[Mum44]

Can I poke my nose in?

I was just fascinated by the industrial movement related here, and it rather looks from the birth places of the children that they went and came back and went again - maybe they didn't like it the first time and came back to Chard to try again, but had to bend to necessity.

I have several of this type of migration in my tree - not related to lace or Nottingham - but similar, and like you Julie I often wonder what their thoughts were as they left the countryside in Hampshire and instead of farm labourers became brick-makers in Sussex.

Wouldn't it have been wonderful if they'd left a diary!

[Rycroft]

Another one looking at this thread being nosy. In our tree the number of people who left Somerset and crossed to the South Wales Coalfields is really amazing. I suppose an Agr labourer was fit and strong just what the miner owners were looking for

Pepsi