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Offline suttontrust

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Group transport in 1909
« on: Saturday 26 July 14 09:52 BST (UK) »
This is an odd question with no definite answer, but I'd like some opinions, please.
In 1909 residents of the Hull Charterhouse went on a trip to Burton Constable.  What transport would they have used?  I know there were buses and even charabancs in 1909, but there was still horse-drawn transport as well.  It's 8.7 miles between the two places, and there would have been upwards of 50 people on the trip.
Any thoughts?
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.

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Re: Group transport in 1909
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 26 July 14 09:59 BST (UK) »
They possibly walked!
Leicestershire:Chamberlain, Dakin, Wilkinson, Moss, Cook, Welland, Dobson, Roper,Palfreman, Squires, Hames, Goddard, Topliss, Twells,Bacon.
Northamps:Sykes, Harris, Rice,Knowles.
Rutland:Clements, Dalby, Osbourne, Durance, Smith,Christian, Royce, Richardson,Oakham, Dewey,Newbold,Cox,Chamberlaine,Brow, Cooper, Bloodworth,Clarke
Durham/Yorks:Woodend, Watson,Parker, Dowser
Suffolk/Norfolk:Groom, Coleman, Kemp, Barnard, Alden,Blomfield,Smith,Howes,Knight,Kett,Fryston
Lincolnshire:Clements, Woodend

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Re: Group transport in 1909
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 26 July 14 10:19 BST (UK) »
Some interesting photographs of charabanc outings at http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Charabancs,_coaches_and_carriages

Stan
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Re: Group transport in 1909
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 26 July 14 12:10 BST (UK) »
Thanks Stan, very interesting.  1909 seems to have been a transition period when horse-drawn and mechanical means of transport were equally popular.
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.


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Re: Group transport in 1909
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 27 July 14 23:44 BST (UK) »
Hull Charterhouse sounds like a college, so perhaps it was a Rag Day Challenge using prams, bath chairs, hospital stretchers and other pushable contraptions.  ??? ???


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Re: Group transport in 1909
« Reply #5 on: Monday 28 July 14 09:16 BST (UK) »
1909 was indeed an age of transition.  My grandfather joined the Royal Engineers in 1914 as a blacksmith, to care for the horses.  By the time he left in 1919 he was a lorry driver.
Chowns in Buckinghamshire
Broad, Eplett & Pope in St Ervan/St Columb Major, Cornwall
Browning & Moore in Cambridge, St Andrew the Less
Emms, Mealing & Purvey in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham in Norfolk
Higho in London
Matthews & Nash in Whichford, Warwickshire
Smoothy, Willsher in Coggeshall & Chelmsford, Essex