Miscellaneous Groups , Blisworth, Northamptonshire, UK.

All pictures are presented at relatively low resolution.  There will be hundreds of pictures on this site - there is an economic limit to the webspace available.  The point of this presentation is that you can see for yourself the extent of the collection and return later as the collection expands - as it surely will.  Any interest in copies of a picture at a higher resolution (ie. clarity) should be directed through contacts given in the Blisworth "Round and About" parish council publication or using the comment form on the home page.  In some cases the pictures are not available due to copyright restrictions.  However, permission has been obtained, where possible, to include them here.  Printed below each image is the photographer's name, if known.

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20-01  Old Boys reassembling at Courteenhall private school on the occasion of it being closed in 1934.

1-OTB Young, 2-Geo Capell, 3-A Alexander, 4-Harry Perkins, 5-W Whitlock, 6-Chas Tew, 7-Jack Warren, 8-W Ayres, 9-Job Sturgess, 10-Tho Sturgess, 11-Chas Malcher, 12-John Campion, 13-Jeff Butler, 14-W Copson, 15-?, 16-Ed Harris, 17-John Lepper, 18-Thos Robinson, 19-Tho Payne, 20-Geo Parrish, 21-Jacob Newcombe, 22-Frank Marriott, 23-Wm Sturgess, 24-Ed Plowman, 25-John Mallard, 26-John Dickens, 27-Ed Clarke, 28-Tho Payne, 29-Bob Carter.

Footnote:   Pictured a c 1925 group of gentlemen as they get ready for an outing by Beeden bus.

 

 

20-02  Blisworth Guides  (year?)

 

 
20-03  No one seems to know who these people are.  They may well be visitors to the village.

 

 

 

 

 

20-04  Blisworth people threshing in Milton. The date is not known.

 

 

 

 

 

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20-06  Kestrel 1960.   When a third canal page is opened on the site, an appealing picture like this will be moved there.  Don't write in to say that only two isn't really a group.
20-07   Church Choir in 1951.

Centred in the front row,  Revd. Hopkinson, Mr Williams (church warden) and Mr Pauley (organist).

Alf Collins, Syd Newcombe, George Dickens, Eddy Bennett, Eddy Ayres, Jack Digby, Ron Freeston, Bill Sturgess.

Mrs Abbott, Roger Sturgess, Mrs Mason, Edwin Freeston, Marion Sturgess, Mary Burton, Joyce Hankins, Derek Abbott, Joan Thompson, David Busby, Mrs Dickens, Mrs Harris.

Tony Newcombe, Rev Hopkinson, Mr Williams (ch. wdn), Mr Pauley (organist), Michael Freeston, Jim Paylor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

20-08   Mothers' Union (1950s)

Left to right:  Mrs Williams, Mrs Warren and Mrs Newcombe.  The banner was contributed by Mrs. Florence Harris in 1947 in gratitude for her three sons, Rupert, Eric and Frank, returning successfully from WWII.  See article on the banner and the Harris family (in constr.)

 

 

 

 
20-09   Blisworth men c. 1940, left to right,

Ron French, George Holding, Frank Holding and Charles 'Woofy' Holding.  George and Frank are cousins to Charles.
20-10   The 1935 Blisworth Jubillee Committee. front row, left to right, Oliver Young (Grocer), J.O.E. Cole (Headmaster), Arthur Green (ret. Headmaster), Rev Ussher, Rev G Mallett, Alfred Westley (Miller), Thomas Sturgess (Baker).   Next, Walter Alexander (Florist), Walter  Edwards (Meat Processor), Harry Monk, Frank Young (Clerk), Norman Williams, Will Sturgess (Baker), George Perkins, Will Woolacott, Mr. Hall.(Cinema Manager)  Back row,  Harry Perkins (Butcher), Frank Abbott (Coalman), Sam Brown (Publican), Will Collins, Curly? Goodridge, Edgar Ayres, George Freeston and Len Allen (Shoemaker).
20-11   The Ladies Team for the 1935 Jubillee Event: Not all known, front, ?, Mrs Ratledge, Mrs Paxton, ?, Mrs Warren, Mrs F. Edwards, ?, Mrs Carter, Mr Young, middle, Mrs Clara Curtis, Mrs Edith Edwards, Mrs Winnie Goodridge, Hazel Robinson, ?, Mrs Hillyard, Mrs Allen, Harry Monk, back, Martha Clark, Mrs Robinson, ?, Mrs Leach, ?
20-12   The Ladies "team" (Coronation 1937) including two men!  Back row:  Mrs Allen, Mrs Young, Mrs Leach, Comfort Lack, Mrs A Robinson.  Middle: Mrs W Alexander, Miss A Pacey, Mrs Haines, Mrs Packwood, Mrs A Sturgess, Martha Clarke, Tom Sturgess, Mrs T Ayres and Mr Monk.  Front Row, guider at each end, Miss E Pacey, Mrs Packwood, Hazel Robinson, Mrs Underwood, Mrs G Harris, Mrs Williams, Mrs F Holding, Mrs Warren, and Phyllis Lack.

 

 

 

 

20-13   A young Ron French with sister Win and mother at No. 41-43 Stoke Road (now demolished - see Stoke Road section)

Another photo of the family here.

 

 

 

 

 
20-14  Dated c. 1910, a team of men to operate the ice-boat.  The method of breaking ice was to rock the boat violently by holding a central wooden beam and leaning out on alternating sides.  See the action in a photo.
 

 

 

 

 

20-15  A Barden Keech wedding assembled outside the house of the Keechs - one of the railway cottages known as Fogg Cottages.  No-one knows why they are so named - they were at the Milton Lane rail crossing (connects with Barn Lane, Milton) and all that remains now is a turning area for vehicles.

 

 

 

 
20-16   1934 Blisworth Scout Troup.

Left to right, back: S Morton, R Harris, G Freeston, ?, D Caesar, ? Wollacott, D Hewitt, A Perkins, G Perkins, B Basketfield.

Kneeling: S Whitmore, R Floyd, S Woolacott, R Williams,  R Carter, F Digby, E Cater, D Gowland, F Allen.

Sitting: S Pacey, G Holding, C Holding, T Perkins, A Bailey, D Ayres(?), B Holding.
This is a link to a recently discovered photograph of a Paxton family group