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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Anne in OZ on Saturday 08 June 19 10:46 BST (UK)
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Hi can any one please help with this address? I can read the Princess part but not the rest. Thanks.
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Princess Helena, with two goes at Helena?
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Could be "Holand"
Can you see page 1 of the census book and look at the description of the enumerator's walk?
Or can you page back and forth . . . .
Does that give clues to the street names around it?
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Or, tell us who it is and we'll look as well?
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Can you give us the census reference please?
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As Mckha489 suggested, I also think it is Princess Helena, Little Holland.
An image of an old postcard is available here:
https://www.jbarchive.co.uk/es-1365---princess-helena-little-holland-essex---6x4-photo-10523-p.asp (https://www.jbarchive.co.uk/es-1365---princess-helena-little-holland-essex---6x4-photo-10523-p.asp)
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This could get interesting! ;D
Great Holland is a blink 'n you'll miss it place. Tiny.
Looks to me more like Princes with the 2nd "s" (if that's what it is) having been added later.
I keep seeing "Nilena", which is really not helping... ::)
Best regards,
Essex-Girl Karen ;D
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And from this website:
https://www.europese-bibliotheek.nl/en/Books/Clacton-on-Sea_in_old_picture_postcards_volume_1/100-134010/Article/4 (https://www.europese-bibliotheek.nl/en/Books/Clacton-on-Sea_in_old_picture_postcards_volume_1/100-134010/Article/4)
"33. THE 'PRINCESS HELLENA', LITTLE HOLLAND. Licensed as 'The Beerhouse' in 1882. Plans for the future development of Little Holland, a small village sorne two miles to the east of Clacton-on-Sea, went ahead at the turn of the century. A map of the 'Presten Estate' in 1904 shows the proposed roads which included Kings Avenue, Kaisers Grove, and Kings Cliff. Probably when Greene, King & Sans taak over the little beer house, shown in the photograph, in 1883 from its previous owner, one Fleetwood Codd, they decided to maintain the regal note. There were two Princess Helenas. Princess Helena Victoria (1870-1948), a grand-daughter af Queen Victoria's, and Princess Helena (1846-1923) who was her mather and the fifth child of Queen Victoria. At the time this photo was taken, in 1905, Little Holland was all farmland except for a few agricultural cottages. In 1934 it was absorbed by Clacton and became Holland-on-Sea, A year later the 'Princess Helena' was pulled down and a large new Public House called 'The Roaring Donkey' replaced it. (Note spelling: 'Hellena' on sign-board.)"
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Well done, Vimto!
Once again, Google couldn't help me here in Germany. Big Bruvver, 'n all that.
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And for those interested in looking up the full census page:
RG12, piece 1400, folio 108, page 22
Household of Joseph Gould, Head, Carpenter, aged 51 (Princess Helena, Little Holland Road, Great Holland, Tendring, Essex)
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Pub for me too . . . . .
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And if you check out the 1911 census the same Joseph Gould (aged 72) is still there and is now "Beer House Keeper" - address in his own hand "Princess Helena, Gt Holland, Clacton on Sea"
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The Princess Helena pub became the Roaring Donkey, replacing the earlier building on the same site, and is still there as a pub.
And the location in Google maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/MYLBzqLsofVmLKad8 (https://goo.gl/maps/MYLBzqLsofVmLKad8)
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Wow! Thanks everyone. I went to have tea, came back and problem solved. ;D The family who lived there was named Kettle, sorry I didn't think to put the name in my original post.
Anne