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The Common Room / C19th Censuses - Where Born
« on: Monday 16 February 15 19:16 GMT (UK) »
Does anybody know whether birthplace information in C19th censuses has ever been collated?
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London and Middlesex / Re: Plumstead Local Paper for WW 1
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 15:12 GMT (UK) »
The local paper was the Kentish Independent, which is on microfiche at the Heritage Centre. Records do need to be sorted out; I, too, have ploughed through cardboard boxes. This is par for the course for Woolwich Borough (as was). The staff are very friendly and helpful there.
The Heritage Centre and Firepower are not in the same buildings, although they are very close by. I think some larger equipment is stored within the building occupied by the Heritage Centre. Firepower has its own archives and librarian, although you have to make an appointment. http://firepower.org.uk/do-your-own-research/
Firepower is due to move out of Woolwich in a few years' time, but current plans are for records relating to the Artillery in Woolwich to remain and be stored/displayed at the Heritage Centre and the Old Military Academy Building.
I live close to Macoma Road, if you would like a photo of the house. Also, Greenwich Heritage Centre has a Facebook page. They are gradually adding digitalised pictures of the area to a searchable database for downloading (at a price) and are open to suggestions for topics to be focussed upon.
The Heritage Centre and Firepower are not in the same buildings, although they are very close by. I think some larger equipment is stored within the building occupied by the Heritage Centre. Firepower has its own archives and librarian, although you have to make an appointment. http://firepower.org.uk/do-your-own-research/
Firepower is due to move out of Woolwich in a few years' time, but current plans are for records relating to the Artillery in Woolwich to remain and be stored/displayed at the Heritage Centre and the Old Military Academy Building.
I live close to Macoma Road, if you would like a photo of the house. Also, Greenwich Heritage Centre has a Facebook page. They are gradually adding digitalised pictures of the area to a searchable database for downloading (at a price) and are open to suggestions for topics to be focussed upon.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1925-32? More accurate dating please
« on: Wednesday 26 November 14 02:17 GMT (UK) »
Ho ho. We have now come full circle on this, as the Chris/friend I mentioned in earlier posts is the Chris Mansfield in your link, John915. Chris is going to have a look at the mayoral chain to find out when additional links were added to allow more engravings for more mayors, in case the main figure in the latter photo was wearing a ribbon rather than a chain for this reason. In some boroughs, the deputy mayor wears a badge on a ribbon but, as far as I have been able to ascertain, there was no separate badge for the deputy in Woolwich.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1925-32? More accurate dating please
« on: Tuesday 25 November 14 00:13 GMT (UK) »
I suspect he wasn't called Gertrude.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1925-32? More accurate dating please
« on: Monday 24 November 14 21:59 GMT (UK) »
Hat from Autumn 1929. The mayor would have been T Davis. Fingers crossed.
http://mickieparr.com/intro28-31womenshats.htm
http://mickieparr.com/intro28-31womenshats.htm
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1925-32? More accurate dating please
« on: Monday 24 November 14 19:23 GMT (UK) »
Thank you. I have shared it on 'Plumstead People'.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1925-32? More accurate dating please
« on: Sunday 23 November 14 19:24 GMT (UK) »
The 1949 re-opening is well known in the area, as people recall it. The fashions are definitely 20s. The fashion for skirts at just below knee-length was introduced about 1925. This length of skirt and cloche hats continued to be worn into the thirties. I would think, however, that the lady mayor (as I assume the lady is), attending many functions and being frequently photographed, would be wearing the latest modes, which makes the mid-twenties the most likely period, although a little late for the 1922 film. James Turnbull was mayor 1921/2 and 1922/3. The next four terms saw James Newman and William Barefoot in the post, and he is definitely not either of them. Hopefully, the trip to the Archives will reveal the answer.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1925-32? More accurate dating please
« on: Sunday 23 November 14 14:08 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for all of your replies. "Always the Woman" seems the likliest. I am aware of the re-opening in 1949, but the fashions depicted are of the mid-twenties through to early thirties. This must have been an earlier re-opening. We have another picture of the same mayor, in an unknown location, also from that era. I am hoping to visit The London Metropolitan Archives shortly, where the pictures of Woolwich mayors are held.
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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: Marriage Windsor GEORGE HALL
« on: Saturday 25 October 14 14:29 BST (UK) »
I am so sorry. You are quite right. It is Hill and yes, the cabinet maker in Red Lion Row. I am doing some research for someone whose Hall married a Hill. Very confusing.