‘Coming into contact with a live cable, Charles was killed, Electrocuted!’
Category: Devon
Scudamore Update & Sidbury Cemetery visit.
A visit to Anne at Sidbury Cemetery and update on the Scudamore Collection.
Updates: Mary Ansell’s Family and Smallacombe Farm🐎🚜
Happy New Year everyone, 2020 has been quite eventful for me so far! Lots of Old Photos going ‘home’
Update A New Find! Brassey Family.
So I offered the photos to Sarah, knowing they would be seen by people & also be going to a very good home. But this is not the end of the story……
May Eugenie Tudor & A La Ronde Pt 3
In my last part about the family with connections to A La Ronde, I thought I would share the few photos unidentified so far with you.
May Eugenie Tudor & A La Ronde Pt 1
I was amazed to find that her daughter had inherited from a cousin, a very famous National Trust property!
Selina Wonnacott & William Henry Dillon
Scrolling through Ebay one evening I noticed this absolutely beautiful glass Ambrotype photo, unframed, of a couple, taken I thought probably 1855/60’s
Ronald Woodley of Chapelhaies Farm, Tiverton & his admirers & family.
So we have admirers Medee, Jeannie, Winnie and Gwen….Did Ronald marry any of them?
Francis Raymond Cann & Family
Though Ireland was aflame with civil war, Dublin society gaily put aside its troubles in May, 1798 to enjoy to the full an astounding story of seduction and murder!
George Henry Chubb and Family plus the Rice Family
We have just recently moved from Shaftesbury to Beaminster, still in Dorset, but down nearer to the coast. Moving gives us the opportunity to explore different places locally, and of course different car boot sales and fairs.This old photo is a very recent find, the lady had the picture in a very nice silver frame. So I…
William Kemble (Policeman) and family
These named old photos were among a box of cabinet cards and CDV’s all from one seller. He said they had come from different sources and what he had had left, he just put in this box. My husband done his usual haggling and we got the whole lot for a great price! Over 80…
George Routleigh The Watchmaker
On our travels at the beginning of May we came across St Petroc’s Parish Church of Lydford, Devon. It is a Norman church but is founded on an earlier settlement. A small timber church probably stood on the site, built about 650AD. It was dedicated in honour of St. Petroc, a 6th century Celtic missionary…
