🎻Extra Postcards🎄for Annie & 🎻an Extra Photo for Alexander Scudamore🎻

What a lovely way to start the year with more additions to two of my Blog families. Firstly Postcard Paul @PaulSuttonKing (Twitter) was kind enough to send me three more old postcards he had that were sent to Annie, good for the collection to all be kept together, I’m still hopeful that sometime they will all be sent back to be with their family. Two sending Christmas/New Year wishes and a general Postcard. Much nicer than a text message.

I haven’t got Jenny on the family tree and from reading the message on the postcard I would think she is a friend, not family.

Daisy Percival born in 1881 was officially an Aunt of Miss Harriet Annie Bloomfield’s intended husband Ernest Edward Percival, but they were more like siblings in age as Daisy’s mother, Mary Ann Howard was Ernest’s Grandfather’s second wife, he lived with them till he married as his parents both died when he was very young and he went to live with them. Lots more information and link to the family tree on Ancestry via my original Blog: Love by Postcard

From Winnie in 1914, one of Annie’s sisters was Amy Winifred Bloomfield 1898-1943, she never married and died at the age of 43.

Secondly Alexander Scudamore.

Back in 2021, I wrote four Blogs about Alex Scudamore and his family, here’s the link to part 4: Alexander Scudamore & Family

In November 2023 I received contact from a chap called Ian, he had come across my Blogs and kindly let me know that he also had a photo of Alex with his Violin and writing on the back, just like all the old photos that I had.

He said “I bought one of Alex’s photographs from eBay a few years ago. He’s stood in the porch of Fir Shade, holding his Joseph Klatz violin. It’s dated 1921 – ‘in the days when my Nightingale Parties were annual affairs.’

He describes busking outside Westminster Abbey ‘because they did not pay us when we joined up first,’ being Court Marshalled (sic) for doing so, receiving a sentence of 14 days, and having his violin temporarily confiscated“.

Full Text: Alexander Scudamore about 1921

Taken outside the old porch of Fir Shade in the days when my Nightingale Parties were annual affairs and this is the famous Joseph Klotz violin which I have carried about with me on all my many stunts.

1921 The Army. Busking in London, Bath where I played it outside the Abbey because they did not pay us when we joined up first, the Captain and the Colonel passed, I was Court Marshalled the next morning, my violin taken away and had a sentence of 14 days Royal Warrant 28 days pay stopped but had it back later for concert work.

Ian said “I collect music ephemera and I’m working towards a book on stories behind music-related things. This is why I bought the photo: great image and an intriguing inscription. I’ll be more than happy to return it to the family when I’m done with it” I’ve let the family know about this extra photo and they will be thrilled to have it to pass on to descendants.