These two lovely Postcard Photos I couldn’t resist, they are just adorable children aren’t they……..
Tag: Dorset
Fudge, Park and Ginn Family Part 2.
More of the old photos & more information about his biological Mum’s side of the family, GINN
Fudge, Park & Ginn Family Pt 1
So they hadn’t got Victor’s name wrong after all! What a surprise!
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
Frederick Thomas Turrell & Ethel Queenie Ivy Winzar Crispe Wedding 1927
Found recently at the Fleamarket & what a surprise I had when I got home & turned this one over!
Spiritualism & Ethel Mary Welch
A couple of months ago at a Car Boot sale I came across three old photos in a bag. Having a quick look I could see they were the same lady & with writing on the back, the seller saw me looking & said dismissivly “oh those have all been written on” Just what I…
Thomas Alfred Mead & Florence Ada Ivy Cox
We went to Dorchester Car Boot early last Sunday morning & Dave came across these wonderful Old Photos, all stuck with blue tack in a frame, all together. Taken out of the frame, some had information on them ! Some of my favourites from these are the Mum &…
Salisbury Victorian Photographer Edmund Rogers
I am still catching up on scanning of the old photos that I have acquired this summer, lots of them are CDV cards, they are time consuming because I always scan the backs too. Some of the Photographers had wonderful designs, especially if they lived & worked in a special town or city. This is…
Felix Drake Webbing Manufacturer & Arthur Green Holcombe Brewery
On a stall for sale at the end of last year, I saw displayed in a cellophane sleeve an old letter, while I was looking & trying to read it the seller said ‘If you’re interested I have some more of those’ So I ended up buying all six letters for £1 each. This is…
Martha Brown Hanging 160 years on
On this date 160 years ago at just a few minutes after 8am Elizabeth Martha Brown was hanged at the entrance to Dorchester Gaol…. I wrote this blog back in 2011, after a book I had just read about Martha Brown, by Nicola Thorne (Rosemary Ellerback) Martha was the last woman to be publicly hanged…
