From the clues on the back I finally managed to find the right family where everyone fitted in
Category: Wiltshire
Vicars & Nuns. Canon Robert Sparke Hutchings & Rev George Cyril Hutchings
I have found that Robert Sparke Hutchings was the very first Vicar of St Andrew’s Church, Monkton Wyld in 1850
Mysteries..Annie Long, Albert Palies, Helene Javet and Uncle Maston
As you all know, the majority of my old photos that are in my collection, are nameless. Occasionally though I am extremely lucky with a name, date or place, sometimes all three ! These photos below have just a little bit of info, but not enough to find out any family history. But by sharing…
Sarah Simmonds Family Bible (Sarah Cant)
Praise ye the Lord On our way back from our last little trip in the Motorhome to Sussex, we stopped off at Chichester Sunday Car Boot sale, so pleased we did, cause I found this little gem of a Bible, with Simmonds family details written in. I always look inside Bibles when I see them…
Ethel Hopwood, Victorian Photographer, Weston Super Mare
This wonderful Cabinet Card (about mid 1890’s)was among the loose old photos that I bought in November.Shame we aren’t able to see colours, I did wonder at first, if it may have been a Suffragette brooch the young lady on the left is wearing, but then I realized from the Tambourine in the front of…
Imber Lost Village, Wiltshire
St Giles Church, Imber  On Wednesday the 1st January 2014, on our way home from a few days away in the Motorhome at Devizes, we made our first visit ever to the Lost Village of Imber, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.This village is open for a few days every year and we just never seem to…
