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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: bagnol on Wednesday 16 August 17 12:10 BST (UK)
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My mother in-law came to England about 1941 from N Ireland to get married and live here.
She married in Sheffield in 1942 but the address given on the marriage certificate gives residence at time of marriage as; 2 Fir House, Raleigh Hall, Stourbridge.
Does anyone know of this place and if it was a holding centre for immigrants from N Ireland.
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There was no holding centre for immigrants from N. Ireland as it was part of the UK making her a British citizen.
Does her marriage cert. give an occupation ie. servant ?
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Hello,
Her occupation is " ammunition inspector"
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I wonder if this is relevant :-\
It looks as though it could be accommodation for munitions workers though it is located in Swynnerton
This article mentions a Juniper house so other tree names were probably used
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kjp/
http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/rof-swynnerton.html
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I think that's probably it, Rosie.
It's a long way from Stourbridge (45 miles) but maybe "Stone" got garbled in transcription. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarnfield
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It's not Stourbridge, it is STURBRIDGE !
https://goo.gl/jmG9da
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It's not Stourbridge, it is STURBRIDGE !
https://goo.gl/jmG9da
That makes sense ;D ;D
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I would agree it's female accommodation for munitions workers.
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Hello,
Thank you for the correction, these certificates are sometimes difficult to read.
I see there is a Raleigh Hall industrial estate on the map which may have inherited the name from a previous establtshment.
Thanks again
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I see there is a Raleigh Hall industrial estate on the map which may have inherited the name from a previous establtshment.
That's exactly right - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarnfield
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Thanks again ShaunJ
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In 1946 Post Office Telephones took over the accommodation blocks for their new Telephone Training School. My father was a Liverpool telephone engineer and when he was demobbed in 1946 he returned to his job and shortly afterwards he was told he was moving to Staffordshire to be a trainer at the new training school.
I can't remember where we lived to start with ( before my time!) and then we moved to the one brick built building at 1 Raleigh Hall. I think this would be what is described as the manager's house in the extract given above.
I have no relocation of living there but I do remember going back aged 5 ish and attending Sunday School in the air raid shelters.
Raleigh Hall was used to house Ugandan refugees and after that became an industrial estate. When I visited the area a couple of years ago I noticed there are a few original buildings on site. The site office which was where I was born which was still a flat roofed bungalow 10 years or so ago now has a first floor.
There are some photos on a Staffordshire site, I will have to find out which one. The few photos of that time I have show people not buildings.
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The website I mentioned above is www.staffspasttrack.org.uk use Yarnfield in the search box. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any photos of Raleigh Hall there but you can get done idea of the accommodation.
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I've remembered that somewhere I have an article about the Ammunition works and accommodation that I got a few years ago. Please respond if you are interested and I will look it out.