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The Francis Frith postcard is almost certainly the Old Forge that I have a photo of, courtesy of the Norfolk Record office. It had the most elaborate chimneys, both on the house and the forge.
According to the 1881 census it was in Further Street Garboldisham. In the same census Charles Jolly was a Whitesmith in Back Street Garboldisham, and this is probably the 'Old Forge' on the googlemap.

My great, great grandfather Henry John Jolly was the blacksmith. I am descended from his son Youngman C Jolly who married Emily Collis of Aldeburgh and moved away from the area to Sheffield (where his son, my grandfather was born) and thence to Weston super Mare where he met and married my grandmother. My mother (Youngman's grand daughter) told me that seated Henry Jolly apparently looked a mighty man; standing he was quite small as he had very short legs.

I am intrigued by the name Youngman. The husband of the crime writer Margery Allingham was Philip Youngman Carter. They were Essex/Suffolk people. Was there a famous Youngman of the area?

The Cawthorn family were wheelwrights in Lower Street. By 1881 William Cawthorne was a tailor at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. His daughter, Mary Matilda was my father's maternal grandmother. Odd that the two halves my family should have originated in the same Norfolk village.

Thanks for these.  I have no Cheshire local history at all so comments on the below most welcome.

I have a suspicion two settlements called Bradford are involved.  One to the east of Rudheath [SJ 6873] and associated with Shurlach; the ford perhaps over (?through) the Wincham Brook.

The other is north of Winsford with Bradford Wood House and Farm [around ST6468] and Bradford Mill with the ford on the River Weaver.

The Bradford House to the east of Nether Alderley is not near any waterway shown on the 1 inch map [OS Landranger 118], so I wonder if perhaps it is associated with the Earls of Bradford who took their name from the Shropshire Hundred.

Anne

Hi

I was interested to read about a Bradford in Cheshire.  I had wrongly assumed that the Bradford in Manchester was originally in Cheshire but had got swallowed up by that city.

Can anyone tell me any more about the Cheshire Bradford?  Are there any more settlements in Cheshire called Bradford?

Thank you

No, I am not confusing colleges or schools. 

The person I am researching attended a ‘private school at Totteridge’ in the late 1820’s/30’s before becoming one of the first pupils at King’s College which had opened on The Strand in 1831.  He then went on to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, graduating with his BA in 1841.  He then took Holy Orders.

I had hoped that someone might answer my question and give me some clue as to where the archives of Totteridge School may be found.