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Topic: Day trip to Where? (Read 1444 times)
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'Trish'
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Hi my picture contains many of my welsh relatives, one being my grandfather who stands with pipe in hand and well suited with a watch chain, centre right in the picture, his wife and daughter are seated near the back, with four of his sons stood at back, also in the picture is my great grandmother Mary francis born Herefordshire.
I thought some one might recognise some of the others as being there relatives- all from Nantyglo/Blaina area of Monmouthshire.
regards Trish
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Fear, Puddy, Bunn, Hemsbury - Wedmore Somerset. Watts - Romsey Hants, Frome Somerset, Warminster Wilts & Wokingham Berkshire. Roberts - Newport, Stone Glos, Austin - Blaina Monmouth.
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xinia
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Posts: 1800
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maybe the one sat on the engine had a son called Herman 
sorry 
xin
just noticed the young boy in the centre .... 'smoking'!!!
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jim1
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I wouldn't bother if it wasn't for the kids
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Xin...the smoking boy is damage to the photo,Herman's dad is the coach driver.....
if I had to drive one of these bone shakers my hair would stand on end too.
jim
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Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke;Dillon;Easthope; Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;kane;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers;Whitworth. Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer Leics.Cooper;Preston Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece. Som.May;Perriman;Cox India Kane;Felton;Cadby London.Haysom;Easthope Lancs.Gay. Worcs.Coley;Sawyer. Census information is Crown copyright,from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
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xinia
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Yes I imagine it would be a 'hairy' ride..... on closer inspection I see it is damage.... not a ciggie... thought he was a little young for that.
thanx Jim
xin
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Henry7
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Hi Trish -
A clue as to where the picture was taken might be the railway train visible on the embankment behind the group. The engine and carriages look like they belonged to the Midland Railway. The nearest bit of this line to the Nantyglo and Blaina area would have been from Hereford to Swansea, through Hay, Brecon and Neath.
I don't suppose the bus trip would have gone very far, so somewhere on the Hay - Brecon railway seems possible. The date is probably the very early 1920s - going by the hats - and it probably wasn't a Sunday, because no trains ran on that day.
But I'm only guessing; I don't know the area at all.
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Ballingall, Donaldson, Fulton, Gillespie, Ramsay, Walker - in Fife.
Jack - in Glasgow.
Birmingham/Bermingham - in Ireland.
Eagle - in Norfolk, Midlothian & Glasgow.
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'Trish'
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Hi the picture was probably taken around 1924-1930, well spotted the train in the background. The reason for the dates is the nearest baby is probably my Aunt, at the least it could be my mother which would place it around that time. My four of five uncles, my grandmother and grandfather my great aunt & my great grandmother are all in the picture.
I am hoping that suddenly someone would recognise some I know! Thanks anyway for your imput, it all helps to build a picture.
regards Trish
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Fear, Puddy, Bunn, Hemsbury - Wedmore Somerset. Watts - Romsey Hants, Frome Somerset, Warminster Wilts & Wokingham Berkshire. Roberts - Newport, Stone Glos, Austin - Blaina Monmouth.
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Man of Kent
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I Can't see a Train 
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xinia
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is it? i thought it was a row of terraced houses... but i may just be able to see an engine..... 
xin
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Henry7
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Amazed! It looks very clear to me on my ancient computer which is usually too dark to see things other folk can spot (it needs a bigger candle behind the screen I think).
There are two pale gable-ends of houses, top centre. Immediately to the right is a tank-engine, probably an 0-6-2T, and almost certainly from the Midland Railway. Just to the right is a shortish carriage - maybe a 6-wheeler - with part of another carriage next to it, to the photograph's edge. The carriages look like they also belong to the MR.
(Sorry, maybe I'm just being boring, but I'm often very impressed on Rootschat by experts who can pin down the date of a photo by the details of frocks and hats and hairstyles.)
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Ballingall, Donaldson, Fulton, Gillespie, Ramsay, Walker - in Fife.
Jack - in Glasgow.
Birmingham/Bermingham - in Ireland.
Eagle - in Norfolk, Midlothian & Glasgow.
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xinia
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Posts: 1800
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...wow 'what big eyes you have'!!
here it is extremely well spotted...
inverted to be able to see it!
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Henry7
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Yep, that's it; there's an open window in the carriage (a white oblong on your neg.).
Maybe the train is a special excursion for the people in and around the bus. Maybe they have just arrived and are parked in a station forecourt somewhere, before getting into their train. Should be fairly easy to discover exactly where: - railway (and platform) on top of an embankment, houses beyond, road and station entrance low down. Assume early in the day, so the sun's position might suggest roughly where north lies.
A bit of map-work might sort it out.
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Ballingall, Donaldson, Fulton, Gillespie, Ramsay, Walker - in Fife.
Jack - in Glasgow.
Birmingham/Bermingham - in Ireland.
Eagle - in Norfolk, Midlothian & Glasgow.
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Man of Kent
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Yep. it's a Train alright.
Bet you can't name the driver 
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xinia
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Posts: 1800
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got 2 have been 'casey'
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