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Nottinghamshire / Re: Fountain Dale near Blidworth
« on: Sunday 08 April 18 20:53 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much .so very interesting to me.
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Nottinghamshire / Re: Fountain Dale near Blidworth
« on: Wednesday 18 June 14 15:26 BST (UK) »
Oh my Gosh! What a genius! That would have taken me weeks!
When I am not in the middle of marking exam papers and can breathe freely, I will go into all that. Thanks so very much!
When I am not in the middle of marking exam papers and can breathe freely, I will go into all that. Thanks so very much!
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Nottinghamshire / Re: Fountain Dale near Blidworth
« on: Wednesday 18 June 14 13:13 BST (UK) »
Hi Larkspur.That's great to get a response so soon. Yes that's the Shipsides all right. Wow how interesting about Walter Scott and Ivanhoe.
Thanks so much for making my first visit here so pleasant.
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LOVE the name of your grandfather. Yes I am very proud to be Cornish and of course the name betrays our roots. My Granddad was born in Mylor near Falmouth. I am hoping to trace his sister Mabel as I never met her and don't know if she had" issue" as they say! Looks as though this might be the place to find out.
Thanks so much for making my first visit here so pleasant.
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Nottinghamshire / Re: Fountain Dale near Blidworth
« on: Wednesday 18 June 14 05:25 BST (UK) »
Hi, I am coming into this discussion a bit late and I hope the original people still visit. It fascinated me, as i remember staying at Fountain Dale as a small child of maybe eight or nine.(around 1949) My Grandfather was a Methodist minister (Wilmot Carvosso Carlyon) and he and my grandma were friendly with the Shipsides family who owned the house then. I think he had once been the minister of their local chapel. My grandparents were house sitting for the Shipsides and I was invited to stay.
It was such a grand house! I remember the bedrooms all called after their colour schemes. I had the Peach bedroom. There were so many rooms, even one for the arranging of flowers. It was amazing to me as a child. What is also in my memory is a room with bars at the windows where they said Robin Hood had been kept prisoner for a while. The most impressive thing was that Mr Shipsides put a whole pound note in the collection bag!I think they owned a big Car Company. I do know he had his own plane and had flown my grandparents to Switzerland. Wow! Such wealth! If I think of any more details I will be back.
It was such a grand house! I remember the bedrooms all called after their colour schemes. I had the Peach bedroom. There were so many rooms, even one for the arranging of flowers. It was amazing to me as a child. What is also in my memory is a room with bars at the windows where they said Robin Hood had been kept prisoner for a while. The most impressive thing was that Mr Shipsides put a whole pound note in the collection bag!I think they owned a big Car Company. I do know he had his own plane and had flown my grandparents to Switzerland. Wow! Such wealth! If I think of any more details I will be back.
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