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Re: Help locating two houses
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 21 September 25 12:03 BST (UK) »
On photo no. 2 there appears to be something written on the gate, it looks like it could be a 2 digit number and a name.  Could you get a magnifying glass on the original photo to try and read it?


Tried my best but it's super blurry. 19 ? 6/5. Also the license plate looks like it says CD (52?) which is used in Brighton. So that might narrow it down. (It also fits the timeline JAN 1904 -> JUL 1925)
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Re: Help locating two houses
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 21 September 25 22:01 BST (UK) »

Found another picture in the album that looks to be in the front garden of the left house (for no.2) dated august 13th 1917. No names though.   Have also looked though the electoral register for names and addresses relating to the family but found nothing new. Starting to lose hope!
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Re: Help locating two houses
« Reply #11 on: Monday 22 September 25 13:22 BST (UK) »
Dorset History Centre hold FX prefix Vehicle Registration details https://archive-catalogue.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/records/NG-MT/1/2/3.  FX908 would appear to be first registered c1911.  How did you reach the conclusion that house 1 may be at Blandford?  Do you know the subjects in the images or is that a mystery too?

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Re: Help locating two houses
« Reply #12 on: Monday 22 September 25 13:47 BST (UK) »
Dorset History Centre hold FX prefix Vehicle Registration details https://archive-catalogue.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/records/NG-MT/1/2/3.  FX908 would appear to be first registered c1911.  How did you reach the conclusion that house 1 may be at Blandford?  Do you know the subjects in the images or is that a mystery too?


The house was labeled "Davidson House" in the album i got it from which is an name that shows up in that family a lot as Hilda Nailard married Francis Davidson in 1905 (Sussex). Hilda and Francis are living at Lynes House, Bishops Cannings in the 1911 census, though i don't think that house looks anything like the picture.
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101365981-lynes-house-bishops-cannings/photos

I thought it might be in Blandford or at least near it since Hilda died in Blandford in 1917 but it could be somewhere completely different.
I also don't know the people in the photo since there are no names on the back.


EDIT - I do have suspisions that Hilda might be the women in the photo of the car.
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Re: Help locating two houses
« Reply #13 on: Monday 22 September 25 15:27 BST (UK) »
Hilda Louise Nailard married John Francis Alban Davidson.  Hilda died 1917

He then married a Grace Nailard after Hilda died  :-\.  He can be found with Grace in 1921 at Ogbourne St Andrew and Grace is in Hove pre war.

His parents can be found in Brighton / Hove area but the houses are not like those.

Why do you think one of the photo's could be Kingston upon Thames.

What were their addresses when they married
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Re: Help locating two houses
« Reply #15 on: Monday 22 September 25 17:30 BST (UK) »
Hi
If that is the correct house (and it looks good) then it would appear that the DeepDene school house on the corner had not yet been built.
You could perhaps mail them and ask which year the house was built, and see if it fits your timescale for the photo, or now that you have a concrete address you could consult a local directory.
Glad that you have found it...but the other house is definitely more interesting!
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« Reply #16 on: Monday 22 September 25 17:34 BST (UK) »
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oh dear according to the Property Market , the school has closed and the details of the building state it was built in 1960!
Looks earlier to me tho...

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Re: Help locating two houses
« Reply #17 on: Monday 22 September 25 17:47 BST (UK) »
I think the garden wall and brick detailing on the central chimney clinches it. And... Hildas Sister gives her address as New Church St Hove when registering Hildas death.