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The Common Room / Re: Has anybody been to the Westminster Archives?
« on: Friday 20 July 12 22:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Edward Scott on Friday 20 July 12 22:37 BST (UK)
Quote from: mcdent on Friday 20 July 12 19:38 BST (UK)
Thanks Dawn. Tried to apply online for the readers ticket but their system is faulty! I phoned and they said it only takes a few minutes to do when I arrive.

Mike


Getting the readers ticket is a 2 minute job, good but small archive with some really helpful people. The coffee shop around the corner is very good as well!!

Thanks! I've no idea what to expect, never been to one of these types of places before. I have a list of the items I want to look at. I'm assuming I will need to ask one of the staff to point me in the right direction or even get the stuff for me?

Do you know what the coffee shop is called? I'll probably be ready for one!

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The Common Room / Re: Has anybody been to the Westminster Archives?
« on: Friday 20 July 12 19:38 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Dawn. Tried to apply online for the readers ticket but their system is faulty! I phoned and they said it only takes a few
minutes to do when I arrive.

Mike

Quote from: dawnsh on Friday 20 July 12 08:10 BST (UK)
Hi

yes, you can take photos and photocopies, subject to copyright, there is information here as they do charge.

http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/archives/repro/

The Waring & Gillow collection is not available at the LMA.

If you've never visited CoWAC before, you'll need to apply for a readers ticket when you get there, it's a minor formality.

Dawn

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The Common Room / Has anybody been to the Westminster Archives?
« on: Thursday 19 July 12 20:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
I'm visiting London soon on a family trip and will have a couple of hours to spare so I would like to visit the Westminster Archives.
They hold a lot of the material for Waring and Gillow where my Grandfather worked in the early 1900's.

My question is about taking photos and photocopying etc? Does anybody know how strict they are, particularly on taking photos?

Thanks
Mike

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Help dating this photo please?
« on: Wednesday 04 January 12 10:39 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Seoras on Wednesday 04 January 12 00:14 GMT (UK)
Hi Mike,there were thousands of photographers and I doubt anyone had to travel far to get a photo done.To give you an idea,one street near where I live had 17 photographers on or near it in Victorian times.

The use of a book as a prop usually indicated literacy.
Wow, I didn't realise it was so popular.
So it's likely that whoever the photo is of lived in or around the Barrow in Furness area.
Thanks
Mike

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Help dating this photo please?
« on: Wednesday 04 January 12 00:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the help, that's great. So it looks like sometime in the 1890's?
Any idea why there is a book on the table?
How many of these photographers where there in that era?
Would people travel a distance to have these portraits done?

Thanks again,
Mike

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Help dating this photo please?
« on: Tuesday 03 January 12 16:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
I've been going through lots of our old family photos and this one jumped out as it looks
particularly old. It appears to be stuck to some rather thick cardboard.
I've no idea who it is either, so if you can manage to tell me that! haha :)

Thanks
Mike

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: 1911 census lookup, William O'Loughlin, Kendal, 1858
« on: Thursday 08 September 11 12:39 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: groom on Thursday 08 September 11 12:29 BST (UK)
He is there in the 1911, but you will need to buy credits to see it.
I'd read this post before I posted:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,355486.0.html
Which does not seem to imply the information cannot be passed on?

sorry if I misread it?

Thanks
Mike

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: 1911 census lookup, William O'Loughlin, Kendal, 1858
« on: Thursday 08 September 11 12:22 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: mcdent on Thursday 08 September 11 11:42 BST (UK)
If anyone with access can lookup the following please, this is my grandfather on my mothers side, just starting
to look there! Early days!

William O'Loughlin, Kendal, b1858

Many thanks
Mike


Sorry all, I got the birth year wrong! How stupid of me!

b1885 and *lived* in Kendal

Thanks again,

Mike

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: 1911 census lookup, William O'Loughlin, Kendal, 1858
« on: Thursday 08 September 11 12:16 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Isobelruss on Thursday 08 September 11 11:47 BST (UK)
Are you sure he was born Kendal.Could he have just lived there .

1901 has this family
William O Loughlin 40 bacon curer b Liverpool
Margaret 38 wife b Kendal
William 16 son gunsmiths apprentice b ditto
Margaret 13 dau woollen winder rag mill b ditto
Thomas 11 son b ditto
Arthur 9 son b ditto
Bertie 7 son b ditto
Robert 4 son b ditto
Rose 2 dau b ditto
Evelyn 1 dau b ditto
1,93 Yard Stricklandgate,Kendal
RG13 4913/53/12

Yes sorry he lived and died there but I have no idea where he was born, probably Ireland.
His wife was Estelle and they had many children, in 1911 possibly Iris, Stella.

Thanks again, most helpful!

Mike

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