Personalities, Part IV , Blisworth, Northamptonshire, UK.

All pictures are presented at relatively low resolution.   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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24-54   Alfred and Mrs Pike, Postmasters

 

24-55   Ena Davies showing a prize cow at Blakesley Farm Show, date       .

 

24-56   John Faulkner, date       .
24-57   John Collins b.1830 d.1912, gamekeeper and father of two generations of Waterways carpenters in Stoke Bruerne.
24-58   Date 1967 when Buttmead was about to be created here.  The two boys at the back are probably the Leroy brothers who lived at Thackstone House in Stoke Road.  The others are a puzzle at present.
24-59   A group of members of the "Oddfellows", date unknown.
24-60   A mischievous Peter Newcombe!
24-61   Peter Newcombe as a teenager busy painting by the canal side.
24-62   The last of the Plowmans in the village, On the left, date around 1950 and on the right, date around 1967.  This is Sarah who lived in one of the thirds that made up George Freeston house.  She was a tenant and was eventually persuaded to take a council house.  She worked as a maid at Blisworth House for the Clinch's.
24-63   Four seniors of the village in 1976.  Left to Right:  Mr Jeffs, Paddy Freshwater? , Bill Carroll, Jack Curtis. 
24-64   A lady know as "Tripey" Mallard.  She was wife of William Mallard, ironstone labourer, and they lived next to the blacksmith's on The Cross.  She sold tripe from her cottage.
24-65   The Youngs in 1972.
24-66  The Monk family.  Bessie, Harry, Martha, Mr Monk (father), Emma.  Front, Katie, Ted, Alfred, Mrs Monk (mother, nee Plowman), Charles and Johnny.

Father worked at Hunsbury Hill furnaces to which he would walk.  He would handle 10 tons of pig iron into wagons at 6d. per hour.  Johnny worked for Wiggins, coal merchants.  He assisted unloading from canal boats 30 tons of coal onto the wharf for 2/6d.

24-67   Stuart Woolacott - was born at Clyde Cote (now Church House) son of Mr W. F. A. Woolacott who was the batman of Colonel Clinch - see below.  He was a keen photographer, there being a few of his pictures on this website, and was interested in archeology, helping George Freeston from time to time - see Hill Railway entry for 1956.
 

 

 

 

 

24-68   W. F. A. Woolacott - batman to Colonel Clinch in the 3rd Hussars.  The inset shows the silver horse collar badge for the regiment.  When Colonel Clinch retired from the army in 1920 and bought Blisworth House from the Duke of Grafton he persuaded Woolacott to live in Blisworth and continue to be his help.

 

 

 

Pictures by courtesy of Elizabeth Wiig nee Woolacott.

 

 

 

 

 

George Trusler was a limestone railway flag man in c. 1907 when he was a teenager.