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Storming through Alfreton station with the returning York Yuletide Express, chime whistle blowing and trying to make up some of the lost twenty six minutes after the late departure from the Barrow Hill water stop this certainly was the place to be last night. LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 No 60009 'Union of South Africa' made a fine sight and sound on a chilly evening in Derbyshire. The station was packed with young and old,female and male witnessing this splendid sight of working steam at night. My thanks to those that walked in front of my position and for agreeing to stay back against the fence much appreciated. Great chatting to Ernie and Ian Castledine on the station whilst waiting for the A4.
Saturday 16th December 2017
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Copyright Simon Lathlane
Four sculptures installed at Mindeerup at Mends Street Jetty on South Perth Foreshore have together been named as one of the best public art experiences in the nation.
The four pieces have collectively been shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Street Art Awards’ Best Metropolitan Art gong.
The announcement continues the accolades for the City of South Perth, which also secured a finalist birth in the 2019 Awards in the Best External Mural category.
These sculptures have helped transform Mindeerup into the urban heart of South Perth and an exciting tourism destination. The four pieces are:
Karl Kep Ngoornd-iny which means Fire and Water Dreaming, a collaborative piece by Whadjuk Noongar artist Yondee Shane Hansen and Art+ (Art Coordination) that uses light and sound technologies to tell a timeless story of the Noongar seasons and the life cycles of Country that the traditional owners observed.
Yedi Waangki-ny, meaning Songlines, is a series of eight sculptural reliefs with patterns that reference emu feathers, rock formations, water holes, rain clouds and songlines which was also designed by Yondee Shane Hansen and Art+ (Art Coordination).
Mikaela Castledine’s Mends Street Mob are ten meerkats that celebrate some of the most loved residents of nearby Perth Zoo and can be found in two gangs – one in Mindeerup central and another along Mends Street.
Promenading Emus are a family of two adult birds and a chick paused in mid-meander that were created by Russell Sheridan.
Mindeerup piazza is part of the City's Connect South project focused on improving public amenity via place activation, wayfinding, access to transport and greater economic opportunity. A traditional Noongar name meaning ‘place of the shore’, the name Mindeerup acknowledges the significance of this area in Noongar culture and heritage.
The winners in all eight Australian Street Art Awards categories will be announced on Tuesday 2 March on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Awards Director, Liz Rivers, said “The Awards showcase destinations like South Perth that are using outdoor art to transform their street scapes, while educating travellers about the magnificent array of publicly-accessible art that can be found in every corner of the country.
"Judging focussed on the way the art has been used to attract visitors and bring the local community together safely under the challenging COVID-19 conditions. “With COVID restrictions on indoor numbers in most states and territories, street and public art is a free gift to every traveller.” Ms Rivers said.
Arts tourists from within Australia are high value visitors – they stay 42.8% longer and spend 55.9% more when travelling than domestic tourists overall, according to the Australia Council for the Arts’ Domestic Art Tourism: Connecting the Country 2020 Report.
“Australia has a long history of creating sculptures, monuments and other street art that is captivating to visitors. However, until two years ago there was no way of rewarding towns and precincts that created these art-related experiences for visitors. The Australian Street Art Awards has remedied that shortcoming,”
FINDING ALPHA FRANCES JARVIS...
For the most recent information about Alpha Frances Jarvis go to www.flickr.com/photos/man_is_like_unto_a_tree/sets/721576...
This image is not of Alpha Frances Jarvis. This image is one of two images that were in my grandmothers large family photographic collection whose identity still eludes me. I use this image to start this Family Tree story as a reminder of how little information I started out with on this quest in 2005.
To commence walking down the path and collecting each shattered branch of my Family Tree which eventually led me to discover the identity and the life travels of my great Aunt Alpha Frances Jarvis but still do not know who this family member is.
The names Alpha and Omega where spoken of many times throughout my childhood. Only their names where spoken, that their father was Spanish and he was a prominent School teacher in South Australia, Australia, nothing else.
This mystery around who these souls were, where did they live, what happened to them, did they have families I might just meet one day? My parents would often say they were all very beautiful women which used to invoke so many images in my child's mind. The photographs of my mother and my grandmother, when they were young women are testimonials to that being a true fact at least.
Add to those imaginary constructs in my child's mind of a family I had never met other than my mother, her mother and stepfather, one or two short visits with a couple of my grandmothers brothers family homes and my own father and three brothers left me with a very large empty space to be filled with made up imagined people that were my extended family that I would like to meet one day.
When I heard the names Alpha and Omega spoken about it became a history lesson that left me always amazed, inspired and very intrigued about the wide world that existed somewhere out there, way beyond my wonderful isolated environment of growing up in the foot hills of Rolystone Western Australia in the late 50's to 70's.
"Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last letter" is what I was told through out my life when mums extended family came into a conversation. "The Aleph and the Thaw are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet as the Alpha and Omegain Scripture, are of the Greek." www.newadvent.org/cathen/01332b.htm Such a rich deep history connected to these names that echo down the annuals of time for eternity. I often wondered about the magic of calling children such creative names with such depth of meaning. This would account for one of the main reasons why my two daughters got their Latin names, Regina and Aves.
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NO IMAGES OF ALPHA FRANCES JARVIS...
I have chosen to write about Alpha under this image because I have no images at all that show Alpha. Thanks to my cousin Kay and her wealth of genealogy experiences over the 30 years she has been tracking the Allen family tree I was at least able to date this image to a year it was taken.
(Note...I did finally figure out I had a whole lot of images of Alpha that I had assumed were of her sister. Only as I unravelled her story from shattered truths did I finally recognise there was three people in these images and not just two.)
Who this image above is is still unknown to me and for that matter everyone else in the family I have been able to share it with so far. After cousin Kay told me I could identify the year this image had been taken from a book in the State Library by its business details stamped on the base. I discovered at least it was taken in 1897 at Rembrant Studio, Boulder City, W.A. This would make this young lady in the image at least 15 to 20 years of age (in my estimation from looking at other images of the female family photographs of this time.) This means that any female family member who would have been born from 1877 through to around 1882 with dark hair and still alive in the Gold fields of Western Australia could be a candidate.
Now the fact that there are no images of Alpha in my grandmothers or my mothers extensive photographic collection is an indicator to some important aspect of this ladies story that I have not yet cracked or for that matter may never crack but am driven to see if I can at least understand why.
My grandmother had kept all of her photographs so that after her passing in 2005 at the age of 91, my mother then squirrelled them all away like the family treasures but not one of Alpha has serviced. This is in complete contrast to the very large number of images of Alpha’s younger sisters Lulu and Clytie in this photographic collection.
My mother grew up with very little family contact. She was an only child and the photographs reflected the major happy events that marked family time together. Snapshots where all that remained of their entire lives other than the physical truth that we did exist. Because my mother and father are real and my brothers are real then we did have to have family ancestors before them. This physical truth that we did exist is all I could hang onto as a bright flashing arrow pointing to where more truth could one day be mined, dug up and brought out into the light of day that would finally form into "my" extended family.
The rare times these family images did get brought out into the light of day caused deep longings in me to know these people, to get to know their stories. I so wanted to hold onto these images of my ancestors until they had burned themselves onto my minds surface before they would be stored away for another year or two before I could get to see them again.
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ALPHA FRANCES JARVIS FIRST BORN...
Alpha Frances Jarvis was the first born child to Henry Martin Jarvis (Widower) son of James
married 18 Aug 1877 St Lukes Church Adelaide, South Australia to his second wife Frances Elizabeth White (Single) daughter of George Tyler William and Roseanna Lock.
If Henry was born in 1827 he would have been 50 years of age and already retired from the army when he married Frances White in South Australia. Frances White would have been 26 years of age and most likely looking after Henry's youngest children from his first family after his first wife, Clara had died. More about Henry's first family in another chapter.
Alpha Frances Jarvis was born 10 months after Henry's second marriage on the 9/7/1878 Southwark South Australia, District Hindmarsh (Book 205 Page 287) to Frances Elizabeth White.
Frances Elizabeth White, Alhpa's mother died some time during or just after giving birth to her 6th child, Omega, in 1887 at the age of 33. Alpha would have only been 9 years of age at that time. Here younger brothers and sisters were Lulu Dagma 1880, Frank 1882 -1882, Clytie Grace Darling 1884,
(Gideon Jarvis Jarvis) Gibson Clarence 1885, Omega 1887-1887.
The next time Alpha Frances can be tracked in the records is when she is 18 years of age on the goldfields, Western Australia getting married in 1896 to a William George Ashton /Reg 107 COOLGARDIE.
Then in 1903 Alpha Frances is in Cottesloe, Western Australia giving birth to her only child,
Elgar Ashton. His father's name that is recorded on the record book was William George Ashton (no. 485). Note how long this is after Alpha was married before giving birth to Elgar and she has no other children that are recorded in Western Australia. This is very unusual for this time in Australian history. Without birth control for these women, back then in the isolation of the Australian European communities, the normal pattern of married women was once they got married they got pregnant every 18 months or so until either they died, usually due to complications during or just after giving birth or their husbands die.
The tracks left in the sand of the records world of Alpha's movements that I sieved through the screen of the computer in the State Library of Melbourne, Victoria Australia revealed many new gems. In searching through Electoral roles, Post Office records, Shipping lists and Microfiche and old Newspapers slowly started to build a picture of this great Aunt over the proceeding years from the birth of her first child back in 1903 Western Australia to her arriving here in Melbourne Australia many years later.
James Street, Perth Western Australia in 1903 and 1906 Alpha is recorded as living there in the States Electoral Roles. Searching through the same records I could not place her husband living with her or any body else with the last name of Ashton living at this address. But I do find under the name of Alfa Frances Ashton in the 1903 and 1906 (under the title of "Voters at James St), Electoral Roles living at 153 Lake Street, occupation as home duties, again no one else with the name Ashton living there. (note the spelling change to the name Alpha in this record)
Departing Brisbane, Queensland Australia 1912 Alpha Ashton, born ABT 1883 (29).
Arriving London England 25th May 1912. Ports on Voyage Sydney, Ship Name; Osterley Shipping Line Orient Steam Navigation company Ltd official No 128287. Further scratching through the records found another entry stating that Elgar Ashton (9) was her son accompanied by his mother and Alpha the wife were leaving Fremantle and arriving in Plymouth, England. It was also recorded that she was not accompanied by a husband. I would like to point out here that in 1912 Alpha would have actually been 34 years of age not 29.
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COUSIN LESLEY'S EMAIL CLUES...
All of the facts I have collected so far about my family have come from research on the internet, library visits in my home town of Western Australia, oral history from my mother, grandmother and very recently my dear cousins I have made contact with only over the past two years. Most of the history that I have collected over the past two years is the reason I went into the State Library of Melbourne to seek out Alpha's whereabouts’ was because of this story shared to me by my cousin Lesley, now living in Germany. This story was told to her from her 92-year-old mother, Shirley, who was on a holiday with her at the end of last year (2010).
This is the story emailed to me from cousin Lesley...
"Shirley today was somewhat off with the pixies. It does occur on some days and other days she is perfect with her memory so this is what I gleaned from this afternoon’s conversation when she was not concentrating on how she was going to paint a painting of the area here. She was greatly worried over not being able to get the trees right.!!! A typical way-would artist.!!!!!! She said to try again in the morning hours as she can remember better then.
So here we go about Aunt Alpha so far from what I know as of this arvo.
Alpha lived for many years in London. I asked Shirley about how long. She told me well over 20 years or much longer. Sorry cousin this is only what she told me this afternoon so I cant be more explicit.
She was very tall with beautiful skin and could sing, whistle, and yodel and was a great cook.
In London they all called her Lilly Langtry as she resembled her so very much. Who was Lilly Langtry??? Will Google her when I finish this note.
Alpha was married to someone who worked for the East Indian Tea Company.!!!
Mum can’t remember his name and doesn't know whether he was English or Australian.
They had one son and then her husband died so she returned to Oz and moved to Melbourne for a while. She had a falling out with her son and they broke off contact. She then lived with Vera and Shirley for a while in Sydney until she remarried a man called Caplan or Caplen who lived in Cabramatta also in the Sydney area.
He became ill and died and shortly after Alpha died of cancer from which she had been suffering with for some time. I asked Shirley how old she was then at the time and she figured that she was about 12 or 13 at the time so guess the year was about 1931 or thereabouts. Have no idea whether any of this info is correct so please be patient with us now. Shirley tends to switch over from one subject to another and went into her remembrances of her beloved Uncle Gorden who was for her a wonderful brother figure for her. They spent so much time together in Sydney.
Thats about all I can tell you at this stage.
Will certainly get on to Mum when she is not so off.!!!
Love and Light to you and all your loved ones,
Your cousin,
Lesley."
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FINDING ALPHA FRANCES CAPLIN...
I had found Alpha Caplin’s death details on line before I went to Melbourne February 2011 because of this wonderful story from cousin Lesley. The on line website for finding births, deaths and marriages for Sydney gave me those details without any real effort. That is what it is like doing genealogy. Once you have enough meat to add to a bone you can find so much out about what it is you are seeking but if you only have a bone it makes your searching very hard indeed.
Death...1941 CAPLIN ALPHA FRANCES, father HENRY MARTIN
mother, FRANCES ELIZABETH place, LIVERPOOL SYDNEY NSW (12470)
Well you would think at this stage I should be able to find a marriage certificate for Alpha and Mr Caplin would you not? All my search had revealed so far was that Alpha Frances had been born Jarvis and had got married in Perth Western Australia and became Alpha Frances Ashton. Then had a son Elgar Ashton. These two unattended by the father head off to London, England and as the email from cousin Lesley states they had both returned to Australia through Melbourne, Victoria and Alpha then had gone to Sydney and married a Mr Caplin and herself had died there.
So why could I not find a marriage certificate for a Alpha Frances Ashton? When I typed in just Caplin in the marriage section the clue was staring me right in the face at that time but I had missed it completely and it would not be until I had spent quite a few hours in the Melbourne State Library looking for Alhpa Frances Ashton that it became clear why there was no marriage certificate for her to a Mr Caplin. More on that later.
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FINDING ELGAR ASHTON MELBOURNE VICTORIA...
When I was in Melbourne, Victoria this past February, 2011, I met up with my very dear cousin Kay in the Victorian State Library. Kay was down in the city visiting family when she had let me know we could spend a short time together so what better place for us two to hangout in but in the State Library.
As I had just come from Sydney after meeting another cousins 91 year old wife, Viva Rodwell who was related to us both through my great grandfathers sisters son. Kay had unearthed this wonderful women and her husband’s family branch on my last trip to Melbourne only that previous November. I had a lot to share with Kay about the stories of Viva’s life and showed her the images on my camera I had taken of the Rodwell families’ photos and newspaper articles. This wonderfully gracious lady, Viva and the Rowell side of the family tree will be shared in another chapter of this book.
Kay shared all these amazing stories of her latest family discoveries and how she had found them. Kay has so much capacity in finding truth out of the smallest particles of detail. It is very clear to me that all those Allen ancestors skills and great capacity learned in the gold fields of Australia to hunt out gold over generations have been inherited in this lady for her to be able to find anything if she puts her mind to it.
After Kay had showed me around the genealogy section in the Library and showed me how to find people through the electoral roles microfiche we said our good byes until our paths would meet next. Now with all this newfound confidence to tackle the genealogy section I headed back by myself a few days later to hunt out, dig up, reveal the whereabouts of my cousin Elgar Ashton, son of Alpha Frances Ashton (nee Jarvis).
This should have been easy to find Elgar's movements there in Melbourne. I had his name, his mothers and fathers names and I was in the Melbourne State Library where all the local details should be right there at my fingertips so why was I finding it all so very hard to track him and for that matter Alpha.
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All I could find was the death details of Elgar Ashton and a possible whereabouts of his fathers grave also. I had no idea what had happened to Elgar's father, William George Ashton. After finding the details of Alpha's marriage to him in Western Australia he disappears out of the records there so I find it very strange that he turns up now here in Victoria, if this is even his father?
Writing down all that I had found so far regardless if it was correct or not was all I could show for hours of work. Details I had at that point were...Died Elgar Ashton, father William George mother Alpha Frances Jarvis, place Fairfield Victoria, age 37, year 1940, Reg. No. 6135.
His fathers details, if this is even him were; Death Ashton William George, father Robert, mother Cathrine O'Brian, place Richmond, age 55, year 1931 Reg. No. 3001. I had even found where this person was buried; Ashton William George, cemetery St Kilda General Cemetery, Roman Catholic Monumental Compartment B. grave 335 Buried 14/03/1931. I knew at that point this was either useless or a very important piece to my puzzle and I had better write it down because there was no guarantee I could find it again.
The idea of going out to see this grave site at that point in time was not going to be feasible even if I could be sure it was Elgar's father. Time that I had left in Melbourne was short and I needed to find Elgar's grave site at least to see if there had been other names recorded on it. Had Elgar married, did he have children that might still be alive here in Melbourne?
With the clock ticking away I returned to the State Library of Victoria the following day and commenced cross referencing, playing around with what I did have and do strange things like type different combinations of names. It was while I was doing this last ditched attempt of finding where Elgar's grave was that I stumbled across this entry on Ancestry.com website (I had only just discovered Ancestry.com was free at our Library's)... Alpha Frances Ashton mother Elgar Jno Evans born 1903 death 1940 Fairfield, Victoria.
Evans, they had changed their name to Evans. Elgars name was Elgar Jno Evans, no wonder I could not find records in the microfiche and telephone records and all the other places I had been looking. I had the wrong name.
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NOW FINDING ELGAR JON EVANS...
The name Alpha, that strange and very mysterious name was all I had had to hang onto all throughout my life that had kept calling me to hunt her out. Alpha's name was all I had of my great Aunt and it was that name that I had used to track her and her sons details down. I had finally cracked this. After I found this piece of the jigsaw many other details started to pour out of the web sites and microfiche. I dived back into all those records that I had spent days searching through with the name Ashton and now I was back with the name Evans.
What I found...
Australian Electoral Roles for Elgar Evans
1931 South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria
1936 South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria
1937 South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria
Australian Electoral Roles for Alpha Frances Evans
1931 at 286 Toorak Rd, home duties. Elgar Evans was at this same address and his occupation was motor mechanic (M.
Married, Alpha Frances Evans 1934 New South Wales, reg. place; Liverpool, NSW Husband, Caplin John (Reg.No.2210)
When I had looked for Caplin and Ashton getting married back in Perth after cousin Lesley’s email with Shirley’s oral history I had seen this entry but did not think twice. It had not for one second dawned on my very blond brain that Alpha could have remarried.
Marriage...2210/1934 CAPLIN JOHN EVANS ALPHA F LIVERPOOL. I had not even suspected that Alpha had changed her name while overseas. I should have realised the name Alpha was her and at least written it down.
Now it all made so much sense, Elgar and Alpha had come back to Australia by the name Evans and where living together until something happens and Alpha goes off to Sydney where her nieces, and sister are living and marries there only 3 years later, 1934. The Electoral Roles for NSW Australia have recorded for the C'wealth: -Werriwa state:-Bankstown for both 1936 and 1937
Caplin AF. Cabramatta Rd, Cabramatta homeduties (F.
Caplin John Cabramatta Rd Cabramatta no occupation (M.
Final resting place of my dear dear great Aunt is in New South Wales, Australia and this chapter closes on this part of the mystery for now. There is no time to loose, all energy must go now into tracking down Elgar's movements to see if I can find his grave site before I head back to Western Australia in a few days time. I need to see if he has got married and if I can find anything else out about him.
Looking further into the Australian Electoral Roles for Elgar Evans in Victoria, Australia I found the area he was living in was the same electoral boundaries but not the same house addresses. Commonwealth :-Fawkner and State:- Prahran were the same for all three years listed on the Ancestry.com website. His address in 1931 we have already mentioned as being 286 Toorak Rd, and both he and Alpha were listed as living there. Where as for 1936 the address was 3 Portland Place, motor Mechanic (M and in 1937 his address was Fitsgerald Street. motor mechanic (M.
At both the Portland and Fitsgerald address there was another person now living with Elgar and that was a Mrs Mary Doreen Evens. Married Ashton Elgar, spouse Family name Davies, spouse mother name?????? Mary Doreen, Reg. Year 1932 Reg. No 5803
Elgar had died only a few years after his marriage to Mary in 1940 and there is no other election until 1943 where I find a Mary Doreen Evans C'Wealth:-Maribyrnong. Subdivision of Ascot Vale.
State Flemington. address 18 Bank Street, home duties (F
In 1943 I also find a Mary Doreen Evans now living in New South Wales. C'Wealth: New England Sub: Raymond Terrace. State Gloucester at The Snug, Nelson's Bay, home duties (F
Also the same electoral role, state sub. in NSW but another address was recorded for the 1949 elections the address for that year was Victoria Parade, Nelson Bay NSW.
This exact same information is repeated for 1954. But there was a second entry for 1954 and that was for Mary Doreen Evans at 285 Bromide Street, C'Wealth: Darling Sub. Broken Hill West, State: Stuart. As Ancestry.com only goes up to 1954 in there Electoral roles I headed off to explore Melbourne cemetery's seeking where I could find the grave site details for Elgar.
After some real hard sifting through microfiche for this information after being guided by a very helpful Librarian showing where to at least start this search I found Elgar's grave at Springfield Victoria. Just to keep me on my toes Elgar’s name on the records was spelt differently.
Elga Evens 6/7/1940 Type B location. Exp.030-23000B0017-0043HKL000/00/0000 7
6 Fitzgerald St. South Yarra, Mrs MD Evans, Church England Monumental Compart. B section 17 grave 43.
I was so very, very happy and as I still wanted to come back to that Library I could not yell at the top of my lungs or do my magpie call. I was just over the moon. After a very good friend had agreed to very kindly drive me out to where this cemetery was on the other side of Melbourne and a far way out of town. After getting great maps and directions at the Administrative office my friend and I sent out to finally accomplish what had up until that point just been a wish and hope for me to achieve.
My friend and I set out in the mapped area with great energy until we realised none of the graves had numbers and although the map showed very clear and defined grave sites when you actually get there, on the ground, there are no head stones for over half of the graves. To add to the difficulty we faced in finding this exact grave was that none of the pathways between each set of graves was clearly defined either. We headed back to the corner and counted very methodically until I found Elgar’s grave hidden under a very low growing paper bark tree. This tree was sheltering his grave just like a large umbrella. It was so peaceful and a very beautiful place.
The grave was in perfect condition and the words on it were very simple and read;
"In loving memory of
Elgar (John) Evans
1903-1940"
And it did not matter how hard I stared at the large space below these words there was nothing else written there. I had accomplished this quest and was happy to return back to Western Australia to continue the next stage of this amazing journey of reconstructing my shattered family Tree.
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ELGAR ASHTON'S FATHER; WILLIAM GEORGE...
As I found pieces of genealogy that may be of interest to my dear cousin Kay I would send them to her when I was still in Melbourne February 2011. On the day before I was heading back to Western Australia she sent me a small email with an image attached that at first I could not open.
When I did open this image it was a South Australian newspaper article informing the reader of Alpha's marriage to Ashton back in Nov 1896, the article was published Jan 1987; that super sleuth Kay had done it again. Who would have thought to go look in a South Australian Newspaper for a Wedding in Western Australia two months after? Well it makes sense in hindsight, yes I have learned yet another great Family tree research skill, thank you Kay.
I did not really see anything that needed my attention, at that time, so I simply printed the email she had sent me and put it into my folder with my paperwork I took with me to the Library thinking nothing more of it.
My last day at the Victorian State Library revealed no new leads and I found nothing extra to add to my quest and as I was about to meet up with my eldest daughter to spend sometime together before we were to meet up with my other daughter and head off to the airport I farewelled the Victorian State Library until my next visit to this beautiful city.
As I was sitting in my daughters car waiting for her to finish work I went through my file of notes that I had collected over the days I had been visiting the Library there in Victoria and was very carefully reading them and cross referencing data when I re read the newspaper article that cousin Kay had emailed me the day before. What makes this story even more remarkable was that I had finished reading all the notes and the notes I had scribbled on this email with the article from Kay and only re read it again because I had re read everything else and there was nothing left to read; lol.
It was the name of Ashton's father in this newspaper article that kept screaming at me so I went back and re read all my data again from this trips visits to the State Library. It dawned on me that the details I did copy down of the person I thought could at least be Elgar's father turned out to also have recorded in his death details that his father's name was Robert. This was too much of a coincidence not to be the same Ashton married to Alpha all those years before in the goldfield's of Western Australia.
Then to add to that the newspaper article said that Ashton had come from Victoria and St Kilda all the same details on this Ashton's death details. On further reading of my notes I found even more notes about this same person. I had actually found several sources of data about this same man that had all converged to being the same person described in this tiny newspaper article sent the night before by my dear cousin Kay.
But until I make those final record searches he could still “not” be our Ashton's father.
Article from cousin Kay emailed to me the day before I was to return to WA;
MARRIAGE
ASHTON-JARVIS-On the 6th November, 1896,at St. Andrew's Church, Coolgardie, by the Rev.A. Craven, George, eldest son of Robert Ashton, of St. Kilda, Victoria, to Frances (Alpha), third daughter of Henry Martin Jarvis, of Fremantle, W.A. (late of Southwark, SA.)
source;
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA:1889-1931) Wednesday 27 January 1897 page 4 of 8
I did not have time to go to that grave, as I needed to be on a plain heading back to Western Australia in one hour. My dear daughters did agreed to go and find this grave and find out if there is a head stone and see what data is recorded on it.
Information I did collected on William George Ashton in the Victorian State Library 2011;
Born William George Ashton, 1876, St. Kilda, Victoria, father Robert Ashton,
mother Catherine O'Brian Reg. No.12472
WA Electoral Role 1903 Ashton George William, Kanowna Firewood line, Kalgoolie.
Vic Electoral Role 1909 Ashton George William, Balaclava, 18 Nightingale St, St Kilda, Labourer
(M at the same address Annie Ashton home duties (F
Vic Electoral Role 1914 Ashton George William, Fitzroy North, 572 Rae St. North Fitzroy driver (M
at the same address Lilian Rebecca Ashton home duties (F
Vic Electoral Role 1919 Ashton George William, St Kilda 18 Wilgah St driver (M
Vic Electoral Role 1919 Ashton George William, Balaclava, 44 Nightingale St, St Kilda, ???? (M
Vic Electoral Role 1924 Ashton George William, Balaclava, Beach St, East Camberwell, rly. emp.
(M
These went on and I was not sure at that time if this was Elgar's father so I stopped recording them correctly and did not go on to other dates. Something I might get back to when I know for sure this is the right person.
Died Ashton William George, father Robert, mother Cathrine O'Brian, place Richmond, age 55, year 1931 Reg. No. 3001.
Buried; Ashton William George, cemetery St Kilda General Cemetery, Roman Catholic Monumental Compartment B. grave 335 Buried 14/03/1931.
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ALPHAS IN BETWEEN MISSING YEARS...
What happened to Alpha after her marriage and being in Cottesloe giving birth to Elgar and then off to England for over 29 years and returning back to Melbourne with another name? I have found a lot out about this great Aunt but now have even more questions. The random information that I have dug up so far that has not been recorded in the rest of this story is;
Australian Electoral Role 1903-1954,
1903 and 1906 Alpha Frances Ashton, James St. Perth Western Australia
Electoral Role 1903 and 1906 Voters at James Street.
Alfa Frances Ashton, 153 Lake St, home duties (note the spelling change in her first name)
mum never did meet Alpha???????
need to check out WA electorial roles to see if an evans name is living in james street Perth WA during the 1903 and 1906 time frame.????
what is coming to me on this subject is rather interesting mate and would love your view on it...
what I found studying both the records of William Ashton described on the prison records that you found first and the William Ashton described in the army records you found a bit later are NOT THE SAME MAN...
the markings and height and the character described in the two sets of documents are absolutely different people...
we know the man described in the army records was Alpha’s ex husband... we know the newspaper records of the divorce are real...BUT and A very big BUT is the information in them about which William Ashton they are referring to...
I think and this is where I could be wrong BUT as the police officer giving evidence in the divorce case spoke about the William Ashton in the prison records thinking it was Alphas husband when in fact it was one of the aliases used by the criminal one...getting my drift...then when you read the newspaper article a little closer it states that our William Ashton was not in court when all this info was being used to convict him...so even if the police officer did no very well the criminal William Ashton he did not know Alpha’s William Ashton as he is not in court to be seen as a different man...and worse Alpha’s husband William Ashton was not there to plea his innocence...
now I do not believe for one minute Alpha’s William was not a bit of a lad and even may have got himself into a lot of hot water and may even have had a jail term but the man who got bravery medals and re enlisted to go back to war after being discharged due to mustered Gas poisoning...no this is not the same character at all...so I think you
and I have a very interesting chapter of injustice of character here...
and I would then place a lot of money on that it was this miss representation of character of Elgar’s father that cased the huge rift between Alpha and Elgar...when they returned to Victoria and Elgar either saw his father before he died or met Williams family after his death in 1931 the real story, the truth would have come out and I very strongly believe would have been far tooo much for our dear Alpha to except that the man she thought was a monster was far from it...
what do you think mate...?????
where did you find the prison info...is it pos to go back to that site and keep looking what else might be there about these two William Ashton’s...????
If this William Ashton was such a nasty bit of work he must have then had a lot more prison records...which would prove that this is not Alphas husband...and the policeman was talking about the wrong man...
((((((FROM KAY....
Then show them the dates and names for the divorce and ask for help to find the index film and divorce film in the filing drawer, the machine is a buggar to use and to copy from. These should be available as 100 years old. All the info should be there, I am winging these instructions, but to be sure, perhaps a phone call to ask them might help.
OK, going by these days poor old Alpha had to put up with an awful husband, I will go back later and find all those court proceedings, I saw one In Kalgoorlie about 1909 and one in Broken Hill and then in New Zealand, hmm, not sure all is he but the Kalgoorlie one will be.
I just found another newspaper bit for 1913. I think he committed adultery too, I don't think it was final until then. Wait on will get that one. Oh yes, the same story as the first two files was in Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885-1954) Saturday 20 April 1912 p 25 Article
from FREE BMD'S thought I might have found them on the London Registers,but in Lambeth.
Marriage Jun 1916 Ashton Frances A Evans Lambeth 1d 767
Evans Graham B Ashton Lambeth 1d 767
s the first two files was in Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885-1954) Saturday 20 April 1912 p 25 Article
from FREE BMD'S thought I might have found them on the London Registers,but in Lambeth.
So now we have to find out if Graham B Evans was in the British Military and died. )))))
Died 4th July 1940 Queen's Memorial Infections Diseases Hospital, Fairfield, City of Heidelberg County of Bourke.
Residence 6 Fitzgerald street, south Yarra. City Prahram
motor machanic
Elgar John Evans 37 years male
cause of death Septic broncho-pneumonia 3 days scarlet fever 10days
it stated age of marriage 28 at South Yarra, Victoria
married Mary Doreen Davies
two children...
Louanne, 6years
Lionel Elgar, 2 years
YES HE DID HAVE CHILDREN...NOW GUIDE ME ON HOW i FIND THEM OR AT LEAST THE BOY AS WE KNOW HIS COMPLETE NAME...
the boy was born 1938
the girl born 1934
and as my electoral roles stated she moved to NSW 1943 and the last one I found was
1954 285 Bromide st,
C"Wealth; Darling
State; Stuart
Sub. Broken Hill West
TV presenter Lucy Alexander and her husband Stewart Castledine with their childern, Kitty Rose (4) and Leo (1), in the sitting room of their modern detached house in the southwest London area of Thames Ditton.
Stylist: Marie McMillen.
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Sculpture by the Sea - Bondi Beach to Tamarama.
Sydney, Australia.
The annual 3 week exhibition features around 100 sculptures by artists from all over the world.
The sculptures are located along the scenic walk between Bondi Beach & Tamarama.
It would be hard to find a more spectacular location for this free public art event.
David Handley started this annual art event back in 1996, with the first actual exhibition in 1997.
In the early 90’s he was living in Prague & was inspired by an outdoor sculpture event in northern Bohemia.
Handley had a vision for a major free outdoor public arts event in Sydney.
In the early years the exhibition was run on a shoestring, but its grown gradually with more sponsors getting involved & the prize money on offer for artists also becoming more substantial.
Around 25,000 people visited the exhibition in the early days & the numbers have steadily grown over the years.
Recently, as many as 500,000 people attended this event with it now becoming a major tourist attraction on the Sydney calendar.
Light Painting @ Sculptures.
I drove down from the Blue Mtns to visit Jesse Willesee’s halloween-themed Haunted Hotel @ Kings Cross.
His gigs are usually a lot of fun to photograph & this was no exception.
I just managed to escape the Haunted Hotel with my life & headed for the bar to have a couple of schooners of Little Creatures Pale Ale.
With the important hydration mission complete, I made a minor detour to Harry’s Cafe de Wheels @ Woolloomooloo for some tucker.
After driving a fair distance from The Bluies, I figured I’d make the most of it & do a bit of light painting photography @ Sculptures - Bondi.
I arrived at Bondi at 11pm, found a nearby parking spot, grabbed my gear, & headed off into the night.
Basically, I had the exhibition to myself, which is in stark contrast to during the day when there’s a constant stream of people making it difficult to shoot.
Sunrise is really the only other time during the day when you can relax & get some clean shots of the artworks.
I was alone with the sculptures, oh & a couple of security guys who I got to know that night by attracting their attention with my lights.
Photographing at night is a bit of a challenge as its hard to see, so tricky to frame images & get good focus.
Also, some sculptures don’t really suit night photography for various reasons, especially bright metallic ones that reflect a lot of light.
Some sculptures are just at their best during daylight, so part of the challenge is to choose the right subjects to shoot.
Light Painting is a bit of an art & it usually takes several attempts to get it spot on, assuming you want to capture it all in a single image.
The other approach is to light parts of the scene in each frame & combine the results in Photoshop using layers & masks.
No two attempts at light painting a scene are ever exactly the same & this is one of the interesting aspects of this type of photography.
Its a creative process & very much experimental with a lot of trial & error.
I was armed with my LED Lenser torches, Mag-lite torch, and a speedlight for off-camera flash work to help illuminate larger objects.
I also brought some Lee coloured gels to enhance colours during light painting.
The plan is to increase my arsenal of lighting gear to include El-Wire & also a powerful spotlight for distant & large subjects.
I would’ve liked to have had a clearer sky to capture some stars & also for cloud movement during the long exposures, but it was quite overcast.
The sky was very dark out to sea , with some rain on the way - and it looked as if I might get washed out a few times as some raindrops began to fall.
I was really hoping for some lightning but it was not to be that night.
I covered the exhibition from Bondi to Tamarama in around 4hrs & shot approx. 50 or 60 long exposure images - mostly around 30secs.
By this stage I was totally trashed, so headed back to the car for the journey home.
I ended up stumbling into bed around 5am feeling rather satisfied with the evening’s work!
Looking back with hindsight, I should’ve slept a few hrs in the car & gone back to do a sunrise photoshoot of the sculptures.
Oh well, there’s always next time. I’ll be back for another round methinks.
After several hours of work this Romet Wigry is now ready to ride and in impeccable technical conditions. I used the machine for commuting in the past few weeks. The last problem with the really mediocre Alhonga Synchron brakes and the great Weinmann S.R. 75 brake pads could finally also be solved. The rear Romet coaster brake, which is very similar to the old German Torpedo- or Czechoslovak Favorit-coasters was completely dismantled and put for 3 days and 3 nights in an acetone bath. After this cleaning procedure all parts were dried with a cloth and then checked for wear. None of the parts had to be replaced after 20 years of careful use. Following these steps I regreased slightly the ball bearings using a grease of good quality. After that using the special "Sachs" grease for coaster brakes, which is quite expensive, I regreased the steel brake band and dropped finally on the rest of the coaster brake a thin but acid- and resin-free oil. Subsequently I rebuilt the coaster hub. The action of the Romet-coaster is now at full braking test really tip-top!
This is an export version of the well-known Polish Romet Wigry folding bicycle. The bike is not really sophisticated but after a check reliable and sturdy, nicknamed "Agnieszka". Equipped with the Michelin Diabolo tyres also comfortable to ride. I replaced the broken original rack with the well made Pletscher rack for 20"-bikes. Other parts I replaced: front headlamp, front brake, bell, pedals, chain and both tyres.
Manufactured in Poland. This bicycle was exported to the Netherlands and branded as "Arrow Folding Bicycle", an export version of the Romet Wigry. The "Arrow" stickers were so silly and cheap that I decided to peel them off and to replace them with the original "Wigry" sticker set on silver foil. After a general overhaul and replacing some parts for better performance the bike (nicknamed "Agnieszka") is now ready for ride. Ideal for any urban girl or urban lady.
With a good tyre pressure of ca. 4.0 bars (ca. 58 PSI) the bike rolls smoothly on the roads.
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The business entrance to Castledine House is on Back Lane, Ilkeston.
Its quite a surprise to discover it.
The Predom Romet "Pegasus" or better "Pegaz" headbatch is a simply sticker on silver foil. The bike was manufactured in the Predom Romet factory of Bydgoszcz in 1994. It's so a product from after the downfall of the iron curtain. The Wigry foldings bikes were originally developed in PRL (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa) or Polish People's Republic, it means during the Communist-era. In the Western countries, like in Switzerland, these bikes were sold under the brand "Universal" with a 3-speed internal gear hub from Shimano. The trading of these machines didn't pass through common bike dealers but through departement stores. Obviously the strength of these Polish bikes was their low price.
Name: BARK, JOHN WILLIAM (CWGC) just William on memorial
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 118255
Date of Death: 17/10/1918
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), 1st/5th Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. A. 8
Cemetery: BUSIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of John T. and Mary Bark, of Martin Dales, Lincolnshire. Native of Tattershall.
Name: BOSWORTH, JOSEPH HENRY
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 702205
Date of Death: 03/12/1917
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: London Regiment, 2nd/23rd Bn.
Grave Reference: C. 16
Cemetery: PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, EGYPT
Additional Information: Son of John Thomas and Mahala Bosworth, of Kirkby Lane, Coningsby, Lincolnshire.
Name: CASTLEDINE, DAVID
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 12923
Date of Death: 10/08/1916
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. D. 3
Cemetery: HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Castledine, of School Lane, Tattershall.
Name: CLARK, BENJAMIN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 7800
Date of Death: 25/09/1916
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 1 C
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Clark, of Tattershall.
Name: CLARK, JOSEPH
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 7829
Date of Death: 15/09/1914
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: II. AA. 7
Cemetery: VAILLY BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE
Name: CLIFTON, LIONEL
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Service No: B/202108
Date of Death: 21/03/1918
Regiment/Service: Rifle Brigade, 16th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 81 to 84
Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL, FRANCE
Name: CROFT, HUGH
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 142012
Date of Death: 21/03/1918
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 6th Coy.
Panel Reference: Bay 10
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of James and Janet Croft, of Green Lane, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.
Name: GIBSON, ROBERT
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Musician
Service No: RMB/1304
Date of Death: 31/05/1916
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Royal Marine Band, H.M.S. Queen Mary
Panel Reference: 22
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, HAMPSHIRE
Additional Information: Only son of Robert and Charlotte Gibson, of Tattershall.
Name: SELLARS, ALBERT E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 19916
Date of Death: 30/04/1918
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: P. XI. J. 10A
Cemetery: ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Sellars, of Tattershall Thorpe.
Name: SHEPPEY-GREENE, NAPIER GUY
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 14/06/1918
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 3rd Bn. attd. 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 6
Cemetery: PERNOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HALLOY-LES-PERNOIS, FRANCE
Additional Information: Elder son of Colonel and Mrs. Sheppey-Greene, of 146, Elgin Avenue, Maida Hill, London.
Name: SHORT, JOHN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 2850
Date of Death: 02/09/1915
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, A Coy. 1st/4th Bn
Grave Reference: I. E. 16
Cemetery: RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM), BELGIUM
Additional Information: Son of John and Mary Ann Short, of Tattershall.
Name: SILMAN, CHARLES F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 14546
Date of Death: 16/11/1915
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: Menin Road North Mem. 16
Cemetery: MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Name: TOYNE, ALBERT
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 241658
Date of Death: 19/06/1917
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 5th Bn.
Grave Reference: XIX. C. 8
Cemetery: LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. F. Toyne, of Tatteshall Thorpe.
Name: TOYNE, ALFRED
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 32144
Date of Death: 25/10/1916
Regiment/Service: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 2 A 2 C and 2 D
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE
Name: TOYNE, FRED
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 40766
Date of Death: 18/08/1917
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM
Additional Information: Son of James and Ellen Toyne, of High St., Tattershall.
Name: WRIGHT, CHARLES JOSEPH
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 14547
Date of Death: 24/08/1915
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. D. 8
Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of Joseph and Mary Ann Wright, of Tattershall Engine. Native of Tattershall Engine.
Name: WRIGHT, WALTER
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: G/96677
Date of Death: 01/09/1918
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Middlesex Regiment, posted to 19th Bn. London Regiment
Grave Reference: III. I. 15
Cemetery: PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of Joseph and Mary Ann Wright, of Tattershall Engine.
Name: YARNALL, HARRY AUGUSTUS CHAMBERS
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 15496
Date of Death: 03/07/1916
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment, 8th Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 1 C
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE
Additional Information: Son of Henry and Beatere Jane Yarnall, of Nettleham, Lincolnshire.
Wigry sticker on silver foil. This sticker replaced the silly and really cheap "Arrow-sticker" under which brand this bike was sold in the Netherlands.
Canada's Pan American team in August 1971
Canada Soccer Archives / Jaime Velasquez
FRONT ROW:
Ray Telford
Sergio Zanatta
Sam Lenarduzzi
Johnny Schepers
Les Buzz Parsons
Ken Castledine
Bill Young
Joe Schiraldi
BACK ROW:
Frank Pike
Peter Duerden
Peter Greco
Andy Onorato
Jeff Babstock
Len Brown
Neil Ellett
Juan Monje
Laszlo Bastyovanszky
Gary Thompson
Bill Millar
..
John McMahon
This is a Swiss Berna-Rad 3-speed folding bicycle manufactured in 1981 and used for years on a campsite. It showed only few signs of use and after a technical check simply wonderful to ride with its 20 inch wheels. Unfortunately "Helena" was sold few weeks ago!!!
Harry Driffield Levick FRCS JP (1866-1958) Middlesbrough's 72nd Mayor
Councillor for the Linthorpe Ward 1920-1938
Alderman 1938-1945
Committees:- Chairman of Housing
Harry was born on 13 November 1866 and was educated at St Thomas's Hospital. After holding resident posts at the Whitechapel Infirmary, the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, the Seamen's Hospital, Ramsgate, and the Royal Free Hospital, and going for a time as a ship's surgeon, he settled when he was about thirty in general practice in Middlesbrough. He was married to Harriet Minnie Levick. In 1898 he was made Honorary Surgeon at North Ormesby Hospital and joined Middlesbrough District Medical Society. He was the first surgeon to perform abdominal work in this area. Harry gave two houses in Woodlands Road to the YMCA which were opened in 1936. In 1914 he lived at Wilton Lodge, Southfield Road and in 1915 went to France serving as Sergeant to the 34th Casualty Clearing Stations.
In 1922 Harry stood as Conservative candidate in Middlesbrough West and was defeated by Trevleyan Thompson. 1931 Harry was made Honorary Consultant Surgeon at North Ormesby Hospital. He gave two albums of photographs & newspaper cuttings relating to his year of office to the Library, during Middlesbrough Centenary year, March 1945. Harry and Harriet celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1949 and he died on 23rd July 1958.
"MINNIE LEVICK
Harriett Minnie Castledine was born on 8th August 1871. Her father was Henry Castledine who lived in the Regent’s Park district of London.
Minnie Castledine was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and the London School of Medicine for Women. She graduated B.Sc. in 1895, M.B. in 1898 and M.D. in 1901.
In 1899, Minnie Castledine married Harry Driffield Levick, a consulting surgeon.
Minnie and Harry Levick had no children.
After her father’s death, her mother married a Mr. Marson who lived in Willerby on the western edge of Hull. Minnie was living there when she married Harry Levick, who was living in St. Paul’s Crescent, Middlesbrough at the time. Later they lived at a house, which they named “Willerby” on Cambridge Road in Linthorpe.
Together with her husband, Dr. Levick performed the first appendectomy in Middlesbrough. In 1913, together with Elizabeth Purvis, she began a Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic in Cannon Street, Middlesbrough. Other such clinics followed, culminating in the opening of the Middlesbrough Maternity Home in 1920. Minnie Levick was elected to the town council from 1926 to 1932. She was mayoress when her husband was mayor in 1930. She was a district and divisional commissioner for the Girl Guides, president of the local branch of the National Council of Women and medical officer to the local Board of Education. She was also Chairman of the local division of the British Medical Association. In 1944, Minnie Levick was awarded the M.B.E. for her work for the Women’s Voluntary Service.
Dr. Minnie Levick died on 8th August 1961, aged 90.
Further Information: “Three Eminent Middlesbrough Women”, Geoffrey Stout, in Cleveland History vol.78 (2000)"
Her husband was Mayor of Middlesbrough, Harry Driffield Levick.
Levick, Harry Driffield (1866 - 1958)
MRCS 12 February 1891; FRCS 13 June 1895; LRCP 1891; MB London 1893; BS 1895; JP Middlesbrough 1918.
Born
13 November 1866
Died
23 July 1958
Middlesbrough
Occupation
General surgeon
Details
Born on 13 November 1866, he was educated at St Thomas's Hospital. After holding resident posts at the Whitechapel Infirmary, the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, the Seamen's Hospital, Ramsgate, and the Royal Free Hospital, and going for a time as a ship's surgeon, he settled when he was about thirty in general practice at Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and was appointed surgeon to the North Ormesby Hospital. He soon began to specialise as a surgical consultant, developing his own nursing home, and became consulting surgeon to Guisborough General Hospital and the Adela Shaw Orthopaedic Hospital, Kirby Moorside. Levick was ambidexterous and a fast and brilliant operator. He was also a man of abounding vitality and became the leading surgeon in that countryside and a prominent citizen of Middlesbrough. Continuing his active life to an advanced age he acquired and was able to use a vast experience of surgery. He was the first Fellow of the College to settle in Middlesbrough and a pioneer of scientific surgery there.
During the war of 1914-18 he served in France as a surgical specialist at an advanced casualty clearing station, and said that he there gained valuable experience from the satisfactory results of immediate surgical treatment of injuries.
He had been chairman of the Cleveland division of the British Medical Association in 1915, and on his return to civil practice in 1918 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. He was a town councillor for twenty-three years, and was Mayor in 1931 the centenary year of the Corporation. He was a commissioner for taxes, medical referee for workmen's compensation, and assessor to the County Court Judge. He was also President of the local branch of the British Legion and Past Master of the lodge of Freemasons. He promoted the Boy Scout movement, and was active in schemes for improving public health. He advocated smoke abatement by restricting open fires in private houses, and planned the housing of the tuberculous in open estates. At the end of his life he gave his house and grounds to the Corporation with an endowment for erecting and maintaining bungalows for the old. As a young man he played tennis and later golf, and enjoyed shooting and fishing.
He died at his house, Willerby, 90 Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough on 23 July 1958 aged 91, survived by his wife; it was the eve of their diamond wedding-day (24 July 1898).
Sources used to compile this entry: [The Times 24 July 1958 p 10 d;Brit med J 1958, 2, 454 with appreciation by JEH].
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Created: 2 April 2014
Canada Soccer Archives
Frank Pike
..
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Len Brown
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Juan Monje
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The Russell Street Mills cover an area of over 3500sq.m. between Russell Street and Gamble Street; this shot is taken from Gamble Street with the Provident Works in Newdigate Street on the right. The complex was built about 1876 by the Nottingham Manufacturing Company, the successor company to Hine & Mundella Ltd. In 1876 Nottingham Manufacturing Company occupied the Russell Street Mills with four other lace makers. Lace was produced on the site until 1895, accompanied by other related trades: point, spring and needle manufacturers (E. Castledine & Co); a Jacquard card puncher (Benjamin Toone); machine holders (John Butler and H. Russell) and surgical hosiery manufacturers (Glover & Sons). In 1891 the Raleigh Cycle Company rented space in the factory. Just before World War One, Nottingham Manufacturing Company closed its Nottingham operation and concentrated production in its Loughborough factory where it continued production until the 1960s.
Masonic Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk
The three War Memorial plaques from the former Sudbury Conservative Working Mens Club which closed in 2014. They were rescued from a skip and are now on display in the Sudbury Masonic Hall.
I'm not a freemason, I hasten to add. Nor a member of the Conservative Party, come to that. The Masonic hall is hired out for functions, and I was at a birthday party when I spotted this.
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Mr. George Walpole Leake the Police Magistrate lived previously on this site for a very long period in an old house which had problems with damp on the ground floor although the owner cured this to some extent by putting in deep drainage.
The Weld Club was built and designed by J. Talbot Hobbs and construction started in Nov 1891, a Gentleman's Club named after Governor Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld b.1823 d.1891.
The whole structure is two storeys excepting the billiard room, which is lighted by the lofty lantern roof. There are 14 bedrooms, card rooms, a vestibule, a broad staircase, reading room, smoking room, dining room and strangers room. A dozen workmen were employed on construction, the contractors being Messrs. Bunning Bros and Mr Castledine the builder.
In Dec 1892 was the opening of the Weld Club, costing £11,000 including land.
In 1894 Weld Club Chinese Waiter, Dan Ah Tek was charged with Lunacy, but recovered and returned to the service of the Club. Also the Chinese head Cook, Tek Long was charged with stealing a ham, cigar box and eggs in which he had hid under his bed, he was gaoled for 3mths.
In 1895 A centipede was killed on the front steps by the Hall Porter, it was bottled in spirits and handed over to Mr Lea the Govt Entomologist to put with his large collection of curiosities.
In 1900 Mr. W. Bowman Cadell, Secretary of the Weld Club, was found in the Perth Park dead with a bullet wound to his head.
In 1920 Mr. Charles d'Ebro, a well known Melbourne Architect, committed suicide at the Weld Club by wounding himself in the neck and thigh with a razor.
In 1945 Jack Dempsey, former Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World stayed at the Weld Club, while in Perth to visit the USN personnel in this area.
3 Barrack St., Perth.
Irma Beryl Allen
Born 1903 at Southern Cross, Western Australia
Died 20th July 1976 Sydney New South Wales, Crem. at Pairnsdale Crematorium Sydney Australia.
Married 1921 to John Edward Peter Woolley at Fremantle Western Australia
Born 1898
died 1933 Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia.
Two children...
# Carmon Irma Woolley
Born 1921 Perth Western Australia Died 1963 Sydney NSW Australia
married John Joseph Dominic Duggan 7-9-1940 Perth Western Australia
Born 1 Oct 1941 Fremantle Western Australia,
Died 20th Nov 1943 Papua New Guinea
two children...
#Michael Duggan born 11-2-1941 Perth Western Australia
Died....???
#Allen Duggan Born ???? NSW Australia
# Thyra Pauline Woolley
Born 1924 Perth Western Australia
"MINNIE LEVICK
Harriett Minnie Castledine was born on 8th August 1871. Her father was Henry Castledine who lived in the Regent’s Park district of London.
Minnie Castledine was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and the London School of Medicine for Women. She graduated B.Sc. in 1895, M.B. in 1898 and M.D. in 1901.
In 1899, Minnie Castledine married Harry Driffield Levick, a consulting surgeon.
Minnie and Harry Levick had no children.
After her father’s death, her mother married a Mr. Marson who lived in Willerby on the western edge of Hull. Minnie was living there when she married Harry Levick, who was living in St. Paul’s Crescent, Middlesbrough at the time. Later they lived at a house, which they named “Willerby” on Cambridge Road in Linthorpe.
Together with her husband, Dr. Levick performed the first appendectomy in Middlesbrough. In 1913, together with Elizabeth Purvis, she began a Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic in Cannon Street, Middlesbrough. Other such clinics followed, culminating in the opening of the Middlesbrough Maternity Home in 1920. Minnie Levick was elected to the town council from 1926 to 1932. She was mayoress when her husband was mayor in 1930. She was a district and divisional commissioner for the Girl Guides, president of the local branch of the National Council of Women and medical officer to the local Board of Education. She was also Chairman of the local division of the British Medical Association. In 1944, Minnie Levick was awarded the M.B.E. for her work for the Women’s Voluntary Service.
Dr. Minnie Levick died on 8th August 1961, aged 90.
Further Information: “Three Eminent Middlesbrough Women”, Geoffrey Stout, in Cleveland History vol.78 (2000)"
Her husband was Mayor of Middlesbrough, Harry Driffield Levick.
Levick, Harry Driffield (1866 - 1958)
MRCS 12 February 1891; FRCS 13 June 1895; LRCP 1891; MB London 1893; BS 1895; JP Middlesbrough 1918.
Born
13 November 1866
Died
23 July 1958
Middlesbrough
Occupation
General surgeon
Details
Born on 13 November 1866, he was educated at St Thomas's Hospital. After holding resident posts at the Whitechapel Infirmary, the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, the Seamen's Hospital, Ramsgate, and the Royal Free Hospital, and going for a time as a ship's surgeon, he settled when he was about thirty in general practice at Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and was appointed surgeon to the North Ormesby Hospital. He soon began to specialise as a surgical consultant, developing his own nursing home, and became consulting surgeon to Guisborough General Hospital and the Adela Shaw Orthopaedic Hospital, Kirby Moorside. Levick was ambidexterous and a fast and brilliant operator. He was also a man of abounding vitality and became the leading surgeon in that countryside and a prominent citizen of Middlesbrough. Continuing his active life to an advanced age he acquired and was able to use a vast experience of surgery. He was the first Fellow of the College to settle in Middlesbrough and a pioneer of scientific surgery there.
During the war of 1914-18 he served in France as a surgical specialist at an advanced casualty clearing station, and said that he there gained valuable experience from the satisfactory results of immediate surgical treatment of injuries.
He had been chairman of the Cleveland division of the British Medical Association in 1915, and on his return to civil practice in 1918 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. He was a town councillor for twenty-three years, and was Mayor in 1931 the centenary year of the Corporation. He was a commissioner for taxes, medical referee for workmen's compensation, and assessor to the County Court Judge. He was also President of the local branch of the British Legion and Past Master of the lodge of Freemasons. He promoted the Boy Scout movement, and was active in schemes for improving public health. He advocated smoke abatement by restricting open fires in private houses, and planned the housing of the tuberculous in open estates. At the end of his life he gave his house and grounds to the Corporation with an endowment for erecting and maintaining bungalows for the old. As a young man he played tennis and later golf, and enjoyed shooting and fishing.
He died at his house, Willerby, 90 Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough on 23 July 1958 aged 91, survived by his wife; it was the eve of their diamond wedding-day (24 July 1898).
Sources used to compile this entry: [The Times 24 July 1958 p 10 d;Brit med J 1958, 2, 454 with appreciation by JEH].
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Created: 2 April 2014
In 1876 Nottingham Manufacturing Company occupied the Russell Street Mills with four other lace makers. Lace was produced on the site until 1895, accompanied by other related trades: point, spring and needle manufacturers (E. Castledine & Co); a Jacquard card puncher (Benjamin Toone); machine holders (John Butler and H. Russell) and surgical hosiery manufacturers (Glover & Sons). In 1891 the Raleigh Cycle Company rented space in the factory.
Foundation stone 24 Aug 1882 by J Medwell Day, designed by B Castledine, opened 25 Nov 1882. No longer in use. First church opened 6 Jan 1878 in Albert St.
“ . . . for a long tune past the Baptist denomination at Goodwood have been labouring at a disadvantage consequent on the accommodation provided at their little church being altogether inadequate to the growing demands for sittings, though when built in 1878 there was plenty of room and to spare. . . The building . . . will be of a very plain, gothic style, the stone to be used coming from Stirling East, with Teatree Gully dressings, and filled in with another kind from Tapley's Hill. . . . a clock tower is to be made, which will be a novelty in Adelaide churches.” [Register 25 Aug 1882]
“The Church is situated on the Goodwood-road, and is built of rubble blue stone, with white and yellow cut-stone dressings in the simple Gothic style. When finished there will be a tower in front -rising to a height of 80 feet.” [Observer 2 Dec 1882]
Nottingham made S.-A. trigger. S.-A.
3- speed-gears were standard on Swiss bicycles between the 50s and 80s.
Seat tube decal "Berna" which shows some signs of wear (letter "B") surely caused by a barrel of a wire lock. The silver/chequered frame sticker (not waterslide decal!) is a typical German characteristic of bikes of the end of 60s until early 80s.
Replica of the three OC75 transistor prototype Marshall Supa Fuzz from 1966, originally based on the Tone Bender MkI. A Filter (Tone) control replaces the Tone Bender's Attack control - the saturation of the fuzz is fixed on maximum. Made by Stu Castledine, more info @ wah-wah.co.uk
Second row: David Samuel Osborne, Cathy Levett (Ende), Colleen Rollnik (Ryan), Garry Tucker, Harry Hummerston, Jenny Riatti, Anita Pelliccione (Reilly), Debbie Froome (McGovern), Rosalie Bermingham (Meiklejohn), Jan Batt (Doherty), Doris Thobaven (Jordan)
Courtesy of ECU Archives
Taken by a German photographer, Robert Bohme, whilst Bradbury was interned at the Soltau POW camp. Bradbury had been captured during the First Battle of Bullecourt on 11 April 1917. He had previously served with the British Army during the Boer War.
Regimental number - 6465
Religion - Church of England
Occupation - Farmer
Address - Perth, Western Australia
Marital status - Single
Age at embarkation - 41
Next of kin - Aunt, Sophie Castledine, 162 Branstone Road, Burton on Trent Staffordshire, England
Enlistment date - 26 April 1916
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll - 25 March 1916
Rank on enlistment - Private
Unit name - 16th Battalion, 21st Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number - 23/33/4
Embarkation details - Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A23 Suffolk on 13 October 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll - Private
Unit from Nominal Roll - 16th Battalion
Fate - Returned to Australia 1 May 1919
Back Row : Unknown , Kev Castledine , Pete Redfern , Pete Nichols , Chris Young , Harry Turner , Mick Hird
Front Row : Unknown , Pete Tilley , Unknown , Graham Hinds , Dennis Butcher.
on the back of this image was the words Taken in the Mountains...I believe this to Lulu's handwriting ...My mother Myrna told me that it would have been the Blue Mountains.
from Left...
Lulu Dagma Allen
Vera Hamilton (nee Allen)
Neil Hamilton
I suspect the person taking this photograph was a very close male friend to Lulu for many years
Busty Coppins
from left...
Monica Audrey Hadden (nee Allen),
Lulu Dagma Allen (nee Jarvis),
Irma Woolley (nee Allen)
Clytie Grace Darling Castledine (nee Jarvis)
My grandmother, my great grandmother, great aunt and my great great aunt
The cover plus pages 42 to 46 in the September 2006 issue of BBC Good Homes magazine - featuring Stewart Castledine and Lucy Alexander's home near Thames Ditton in South West London.
Feature and styling by Marie McMillen.
Photography by Ashley Morrison.