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We'll mooooooooove you to Stonebridge City Farm.
A slice of the country in the heart of the City.Catch any Lilac Line bus or a fabulous family day out.
440 boasts it's new (or should I say moo) rear advert for Stonebridge City Farm, clocked laying over on Queen Street ready to do the next 45 to Gedling via Woodborough Road and Mapperley.
An interesting one to occur tonight was one of the 50 branded E12s making a break for the countryside... On a 61 to Calverton!!
201 is seen pulling away with the rather non-descript Nottingham City Transport display with a 61 to Calverton via Mapperley, Lambley and Woodborough.
As an aside, it's nice to see a red bus on that route, in days gone by, this would've been a Barton service.
Looking up at the crumbling brickwork of the eastern portal we must have felt some trepidation!
my first 35mm film neg 05 adj 1
And on to the Slim Line Solo's, recently purchased for the 46/47, which operate between Nottingham and Arnold or Gunthorpe respectively. Here's 145, shining in the sunlight, and ready to work the 46 to the City. And story time begins:
When premiere travel ceased trading in January, it left some services which had no other alternatives nearby, in the balance. NCT came along and rescued the Red7/7.1 which ran between Calverton, Woodborough, Mapperley and the City. After an initial period of running both as the 47/47A respectively, common sense took over (hooray!), and the services were re-organised so that what was the 47 (ex Red7) would go to Woodborough via Calverton, and what was the 47A (ex Red7.1) would be renumbered the 46 and would terminate at Arnold. (Premiere had previously run both to Calverton as competition against Trent Barton.)
At the same time, during the first couple of days of the 47/47A running, NCT announced they'd be bringing in four ex-Courtney Coaches of Bracknell Optare Solo SlimLine's, directly loaned from Optare, whilst they sourced other vehicles. To cut a long story short, the vehicles were almost immediately purchased by NCT, before even being trialled. After a deep clean and sparkling repaint, they were put into use last month - three (144-146) into Network Sky Blue livery, and the fourth (147) into Network Spare livery. They're the first NCT vehicles to feature Hanover Displays.
The 14 plate that was on lilac 24 returned, bound for Mapperley with a 25B.
Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, 29.11.21
This grass stem and the rather moth-eaten plant adjacent were growing through a black painted bench. Something quite likes the taste of that....
After discovering it's existence in a small publication "The Railways of Nottingham" three friends and I set out to explore 'The Back Line' on Saturday 27th March 1971.
The first six miles of the Great Northern Railway's Derbyshire Extension seemed to have acquired this name because it passed north, and thus 'round the back', of Nottingham.
The main engineering feature of this section was Mapperley Tunnel with it's deep cuttings either side.
This first photo on the walk was taken about half way between the site of Gedling Station and Gedling Colliery Sidings with Lambley Lane bridge in the distance.
my first 35mm film neg 02 adj 1
Due to overnight resurfacing works on Westdale Lane, the 25 is diverting via Main Road, Arnold Lane, Mapperley Plains.
Brand new today, NCT 280 is working on a Sky Blue Line 61 to Calverton on February 24th 2025. It is waiting departure time on Upper Parliament Street.
NCT's 'new' service to Calverton runs half-hourly and goes via Mapperley and Lambley, whereas TrentBarton's 'long established' service runs quarter-hourly via Sherwood and Arnold.
The next TrentBarton will soon be showing up at the stop behind NCT 280.
The two differing services between Nottingham and Gunthorpe using two different types of Solo in one shot!!
Trent Barton's Radcliffe Line is the quicker of the two, offering an hourly daytime service via West Bridgford and Radcliffe, continuing through to Bingham using 10 plate Mercedes Powered Solos.
Nottingham City Transport's 47 takes just under an hour to Nottingham, running via Lowdham, Epperstone, Calverton, Woodborough, Lambley, Mapperley Plains and Mapperley using 57 plate Cummins powered Solo SLs.
486 swings past the Unicorn Inn at Gunthorpe with a Radcliffe Line to Bingham via Newton, whilst 146 waits to take out a 47 to Nottingham.
These two routes, the 40 and 45, both meet on Queen Street (as photographed) and on Mapperley Plains. Blue 40 operates to City Hospital via St Ann's Wells Road while Sky Blue 45 operates to Gedling via Woodborough Road.
903 exits its designated bus stand on Queen Street with a 45 to Gedling via Woodborough Road, Mapperley and Westdale Lane.
386 is seen making its way to Woodborough, then Nottingham via Lambley, Gedling Country Park, Mapperley and Woodborough Road. 386 is the only Sky Blue branded Enviro 200, and only one of 2 short Enviro 200s in public service. Its sister vechicle 387 is now with Redline and was recently repainted into their livery.
The latest vehicle to join the spare fleet is an ex-Yellow 68, 69 with the fleet number of 502.
With recent changes to timetables, the 68 and 69 now require less branded vehicles as usual, meaning, two will be withdrawn from Yellow colours to join the spare fleet. 503 is next in line...
502 is unusually seen on the 45 to Gedling via Woodborough Road, Mapperley and Westdale Lane.
Mapperley Coal Screens - 1984 . The yard security man was in a good mood and allowed me take a few pictures of the inactive and "moth-balled" coal processing plant.
This picture was taken from one of the structures and is a view of another structure and its conveyor plus the railway tracks leading up from the "Mapperley Gate" junction .
The plant worked again for a limited period later in 1984/1985 .
One of the main changes NCT made on the 1st September was reinstating a daily link between Calverton & Mapperley, the 61 is the replacement for the 46/7, which I documented the last ever journey, runs between Nottingham and Calverton via Woodborough Road, Mapperley Shops, Mapperley Plains, Lambley & Woodborough.
309 is seen climbing Bonner Hill whilst on the 61.
Soon to be a thing of the past, here's one of the new style line maps illustrating the key places served en-route.
As of the end of August, the 46 will no longer operate between Mapperley Plains and Arnold, and the 47 will not serve anywhere beyond Woodborough, with Calverton, Oxton, Epperstone and Lowdham, instead to be served by Nottinghamshire County Council's 747.
Mapperley Tunnel was in the process of being filled in from near the middle ventilation shaft towards the western portal.
Tag and Dub had climbed up the infill to see how far it extended, they must have considered it impractical to go any further on Saturday 27th March 1971.
my first 35mm film neg 06 adj 1
Myself and Allison were joined by Matt (mattcawrey) and Jo for a very pleasant morning at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Mapperley Woods Reserve. Thanks for a good morning guys.
Just about as classic a "Nutty" pose as you can get.
With recent news of some single deckers being sold on from the NCT fleet, I thought it would be ideal to catch up with them before they go..
378 climbs South Sherwood Street with a 46 from Woodborough Road, Mapperley, Mapperley Plains, Woodborough and Lambley.
Although a spare vehicle, it's quite uncommon to see an old OmniDekka on the 43.... Quite appropriate this one's on, considering it did a stint in GO2 Red, however way before Bakersfield's were Red, this was back in the day when the 44 and 45 were circular services around Netherfield and Mapperley!!
708 climbs Douglas Avenue with a 43 to Nottingham via Sneinton Dale.
The above ' Chambers Family at Haggs Farm ' photograph of June 29th 1899 is reproduced here by courtesy of Haggs Farm Preservation Society member , Mrs.Ann Howard , a niece of Jessie Chambers . The family members pictured that day are : -
Rear : Edmund Chambers ( father - wearing hat. ) [born 1863 ]
All others - left to right : May [ born 1883 ] ;
Bernard [ b.1890 ] ;
Molly - little girl [ b.1896 ] ;
Sarah Ann - mother holding baby [ b. 1859 ] ;
David - baby on Mother's knee.[ b.1898 } ;
Jessie - kneeling [ b.1887 ] ;
Hubert - boy [ b.1888 ] ;
Allen - at extreme right [ b.1882 ]
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The Chambers Haggs Farm Tenancy - by Clive Leivers .
D.H.Lawrence Quote : " a tiny red farm on he edge of a wood.That was Miriam's farm - where I got my first incentive to write . . . "
Note : Miriam Leivers is a major fictional character of D.H.Lawrence's novel "Sons and Lovers" . As became his life-long habit Lawrence based his character accurately upon a person he had knowledge of. The person used as his model for Miriam was Jessie Chambers of Haggs Farm , the young woman he knew better than any other.
"This Chambers Family at Haggs Farm " text was previously on-line at the now defunct Geocities dhltohaggs website .
In 1898 when John Leivers had decided to end his tenancy of Haggs Farm there were six applications to take it up.They included men from Hucknall,Blidworth and Awsworth.The successful applicant was Edmund Chambers of Breach Road , Eastwood and it was during his tenacy,that lasted until 1910 , that the farm's association with D H Lawrence developed. Edmund Chambers had been born on Breach Road in 1863 where both his father Jonathon and grandfather William had been in business as grocers and pawnbrokers.One of Edmund's first jobs appears to have been as a grocery assistant in Nottingham,where the 1881 census records him as an eighteen years old boarder with Henry Hunt at Penrhyon Terrace.His employment as a provision merchant's assistant was at Burton's of Smithy Row,a high-class Nottingham grocery. On December 4th that same year he married Sarah Oates a twenty-two years old lace hand who at the date of the census had been living with her parents David and Jane at Ortgen Street,Nottingham.On the marriage certificate,Edmund is described as a "provision merchant" and his father as a "gentleman"! The first two children by the marriage,Alan and May,were born in Mapperly near Nottingham in 1882 and 1883, but by the time daughter Jessie was born in January 1887 the family were living in Netherfield on the eastern fringe of the city where Edmund was running a grocery shop. In 1890 the family were in Caythorpe in Lincolnshire but their stay there was short for the 1891 census shows Edmund back in Eastwood and living in the Breach near his widowed mother Elizabeth who was still running the grocery store.Edmund's occupation is recorded as general labourer though at some time before the the move to the Haggs he had established a milk round in Eastwood.It was with financial support from his his mother - "in anticipation of of his inheritance" - that he began farming. Some while previous to his 1898 successful application for the Haggs Farm tenancy he had failed in an application for the neighbouring Felley Farm.In that application he was described as living at the Breach,being a dairyman,was young(he was near thirty)and that he was married.Among his referees he included Dr.Barber,Henry Saxton and Mr.Brentnall of Eastwood.Another(surviving)child had born to to the couple whilst in Eastwood,Molly,born in 1895.On October 13th 1898,six months after the move to the Haggs the birth of another child,Jonathon David,completed the Chambers family.
A rental document dated shortly after the commencement of the Haggs Farm tenancy shows Edmund Chambers holding just more than twenty acres in Greasley,a little more than John Leivers' eventual final rented acreage.( The Greasley land was two fields opposite Greasley church where Lawrence helped with hay making.)
Estate records suggest that initially at least Mr.Chambers had problems regarding his land.He complained that his land was over-run with rabbits and gave notice to quit with effect from Lady day 1903 - a notice subseqently withdrawn.About the same time he again applied for the tenancy of Felley Farm and also for that of another unspecified farm that had been previously in the occupation of John Bentley. Towards the end of 1903 he had written to the Melbourne Estate's agent complaining about his rent relative to the (low)quality of his land.He also had acknowledged a promise of a supply of "basic Slag" that he required as a fertiliser.He had previously written,"the grass requires something more than yard manure to pull it round".A further request of his landlord was the replacement of his farmhouse kitchen copper,for his wife Sarah judged it "worn through".Years later,confirming the poor quality of his land,his daughter Jessie in one of her letters referred to "the unwilling and stinted growth ... and the meagre crops of the stiff clay of the Haggs". After that apparent crisis time Edmund Chambers tenancy seemed more settled.However he finally ended his tenancy in 1910 and moved to the Swinehouse farm in Arno Vale,Woodthorpe,on the outskirts of Nottingham.
During their time at the Haggs the two eldest Chambers daughters were baptised in the then recently built(1890) church at Underwood - first May at the age of sixteen on December 11th,1899 and then Jessie( when almost 14 years)on December 1st of 1901.The younger Chambers children attended Underwood school.
The Underwood school logbook of 1902 records that Jessie Chambers , who was then aged 15 , was a monitress in the mixed school . However , In November she is recorded as being a pupil teacher . The school's headmaster was George Stringfellow . Miss Chambers soon found her duties stressful , though , as two months later ( January 1903 ) the Head noted in his log that Miss Chambers had been obliged to return home ill through being overworked with a large Standard 3 class . Appropriately , In the October of 1903 Miss Chambers was transferred to the infants' school " - where she was better able to cope with the work . .
In May of 1906 she passed the King's Scholarship examination . However after her achievement , she did not advance to University as she could have . In the autumn of 1903 she continued teaching in the Underwood mixed school , where she remained until her family moved to Arno Vale.
For link Insert . . .
www.flickr.com/photos/lenton_sands/2201023222/
Underwood School in 1909.
Miss Chambers is at the left of the picture as viewed .
[ Photograph by courtesy of Mr.George Hardy of Eastwood . ]
Concerning the Chambers children other than Jessie : -
Bernard , Hubert , May and Molly all emigrated to Canada .
The eldest son , Alan , remained in England to run a dairy situated close
by his fathers farm on Breck Hill Road , Mapperley , Nottingham .
The youngest son , David Chambers , had a distinguished academic career ,
ultimately becoming Professor of Economic History at Nottingham University .
Clive Leivers
One surprisingly difficult photo to get was that of an 04 plate spare on the 25, a route which uses branded 04 plate OmniDekkas!!
744 loads up passengers at the oddly titled High Street Avenue in Arnold with a 25 to Nottingham via Mapperley and Carlton.
660 and 903 are both seen exiting the city centre on their respective routes through Gedling.
660 is operating on Lilacs all day, seen here on Lilac 25B to Mapperley via Carlton Hill and Westdale Lane.
903 is following behind on Red line 44 to Gedling via Sneinton Hermitage, Colwick Village and Netherfield.
John Hindley………………….Lance Corporal
Most Likely
Name: HINDLEY Initials: J
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Date of Death: 28/10/1915 Service No: 14141
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. F. 2. Cemetery: WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=454646
A picture of Lance Corporal John Hindley of the 9th Norfolks can be seen on Norlink.
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The accompanying notes read “Lance Corporal Hindley was born 18th April 1895, the son of William & Dora Hindley. He was killed in action in France, 28th October 1915”
The 1901 Census has a 2 year old John living at 25 Colville Road, Melton Constable. This was the household of his parents, William, (aged 29 and a Railway Engine Fitter from Rugley, Staffordshire), and Dora, (aged 31 and from Hurtleford, Durham). John’s brothers William, (aged 4) and James, (aged 1), make up the rest of the household.
The 9th Battalion had first seen action a month earlier, where they suffered over 200 casualties, but by the 15th October were reported at Poperinghe with a strength of 24 officers and 1014 other ranks. For the rest of the year, the battalion was in and out of the trenches in the neighbourhood of Ypres, going through the usual monotonous routine of such service in the winter.
forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=4844&sid=b3e7614b...
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t...
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P F Hingle……………………Private
Name: HINGLE, PERCY FREDERICK
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Fusiliers Unit Text: 26th Bn.
Age: 28 Date of Death: 04/10/1918 Service No: 34923
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hingle, of 33, Warwick St., Norwich; husband of Ada Susannah Hingle.
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 14. Cemetery: DADIZEELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=162993
Private Hingle can be seen on Norlink here:-
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The Norlink notes read:-
“Private Hingle, of 33 Warwick Street, Unthank Road, Norwich, was born at North Heigham, 9th October 1889. He enlisted in May 1915 and was killed in action in France, 4th October 1918”
There is no match for a Percy, William or Norman on the Genes Re-united transcription for the 1901 Census for England& Wales.
The 1891 census has a William M. Hingle, aged 30, born Norwich, employed as a French Polisher and living at 178 Old Palace Road with his 26 year old wife Maria. At that time the Hingle’s have no children living with them.
The 41st Division, of which the 26th Fusiliers were part were involved in the following
The Battle of Ypres (28th Sept - 2nd Oct)
The Battle of Courtrai (14th Oct - 19th Oct)
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dccfarr/summary.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Battle_of_Ypres
The village of Dadizeele (now Dadizele) was in German hands for much of the First World War until reached by the 36th (Ulster) Division, and taken by the 9th (Scottish) Division, on 29 September 1918. Severe fighting followed on 1 October, at Hill 41, a little south of the village.
www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=16201&...
See brother Norman below.
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N S Hingle………………………….Gunner
Name: HINGLE Initials: N S
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Unit Text: 208th Siege Bty.
Age: 24 Date of Death: 18/10/1917 Service No: 105419
Additional information: Husband of Kathleen Hingle, of 58, Waddington St., Norwich. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. O. 49. Cemetery: GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=23810
Gunner Norman Stanley Hingle can be seen on Norlink here:-
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The notes read:-
“Gunner Hingle, from 33 Warwick Street, Unthank Road, Norwich, was born 25th February 1894 at North Heigham. He enlisted 24th July 1916 and died from gas poisoning in France, 18th October 1917”
See brother Percy above.
There is no match for a Percy, William or Norman on the Genes Re-united transcription for the 1901 Census for England& Wales.
The 1891 census has a William M. Hingle, aged 30, born Norwich, employed as a French Polisher and living at 178 Old Palace Road with his 26 year old wife Maria. At that time the Hingle’s have no children living with them.
208th Siege Battery, RGA went out to the Western Front on 14 Dec 16 armed with four 6" Howitizers (26 cwt) and joined 34 Heavy Artillery Group (HAG) on 23 Dec 16. It transferred to 28 HAG on 10 Jan 17; to 21 HAG on 28 Apr 17; to III Corps Heavy Artillery on 8 May 17; to 17 HAG on 20 May 17; to 29 HAG on 24 May 17; to 99 HAG on 7 Jun 17; back to 17 HAG on 26 Jun 17; to 42 HAG on 3 Jul 17; to 84 HAG on 8 Jul 17; to 87 HAG on 21 Oct 17. It joined 'X' Group, XI Corps Heavy Artillery on 9 Nov 17 (became 'X' Group, XI Corps Heavy Artillery on 23 Nov 17); and to 45 Brigade, RGA on 8 Dec 17, staying with it until the end of the war.
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?s=f2ef8cb5b93...
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J Howell………………………..Private
Name: HOWELL Initials: J W
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: "D" Coy. 9th Bn.
Age: 25 Date of Death: 12/02/1916 Service No: 15521
Additional information: Son of George and Lucy Howell, of 4, The Gardens, Eaton, Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Near North-West boundary. Cemetery: EATON (ST. ANDREW) NEW CHURCHYARD
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2803018
(Brother of Russell Howell below)
Update 26/12/24 - see comment below
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R C Howell………………Private
Name: HOWELL, RUSSELL COKER
Rank: Private
Regiment: Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 19 Date of Death: 12/04/1918 Service No: G/28375
Additional information: Son of George William and Lucy Howell, of 4, The Gardens, Eaton, Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 58 and 59. Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1582967
(Brother of J Howell above)
No match on Norlink
There is no obvious match for a “J”, Russell, George or Lucy Howell on the Genes Re-united transcript of the 1901 Census for England and Wales. There is also no obvious match for Lucy on the 1891 Census.
The 7th battalion had taken significant casualties on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive (21st March) and then heavily engaged in fighting that to a stand-still by the 5th April, notably in the Battle of the Avre on the 4th. Following this there was a number of local actions by the allies to regain ground, as the German’s shifted the weight of their attack towards Ypres’
www.naval-military-press.com/queens-own-royal-west-kent-r...
www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net/site/warpath/divs/18_div...
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J Huffam……………………..Private
No obvious match on the CWGC database - apart from the Lawrence listed below there are only three other Huffam’s recorded for the whole of WW1.
No match on Norlink.
See Lawrence below, who has a brother John.
The Ancestry site has a possible match for a John C. Huffam, born about 1894, (ties in with being 7 on the 1901 Census) and whose death is recorded in June 1915 in the District of Hendon. There appears to be no other record relating to a Private J Huffam in any of the other databases on Ancestry or with the UK National Archive. There are only two Huffam’s listed on the Australian National Archive site, including Lawrence, so it doesn’t look like that even if it was John, the two brothers emigrated to Australia together.
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L Huffam………………..Private
Possibly
Name: HUFFAM, LAWRENCE
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Unit Text: 48th Bn.
Age: 24 Date of Death: 15/08/1916 Service No: 723
Additional information: Son of William Stanley and Georgina Huffam, of The Old Rectory, Thorpe, Norwich, England. Native of Manchester, England.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. C. 8. Cemetery: WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=74537
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has the 9 year old Lawrence, who had been born in Manchester, living at 20 Broomfield Road, Stretford, Lancashire. This was the household of his parents, William, (aged 43. Employed as a Secretary to an Engineering Company, and originally from Lambeth, West Surrey), and Georgina, (aged 43 and from Nantwich, Cheshire). Their other children are John, (aged 7, born Manchester), and Phyllis, (aged under 1 and born Manchester). The Huffam’s have three live in servants.
Lawrence’s military records have been digitised and put on line by the Australian National Archive,
naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ItemDetail.asp?M=0&B=7017643...
naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=7017643&I=1&am...
These record that he “Died of Wounds”. He originally enlisted on the 9th November 1914.He lists his occupation as a Mechanical Engineer. He gives his next of kin as his father, who at the time of enlistment appears to be living at “The Hermitage”, Thorpe, Norwich.
There is a medical record card for a Private L “Haffan” included in the file, which may be incorrect. That individual was with the same battalion, and had travelled with the unit to Cairo before being admitted to Hospital. He did move to France, but was subsequently invalided to England in August 1915. Perhaps most intriginguely is two days pay stoppages in September 1915, the reason being given is “Venereal”, and then the same again in January 1916.
On the 14th August 1916 he received a gun shot wound to the Femur, was admitted to the 13th Australian Field Ambulance but died the same day.
At some stage he moved from the 16th Battalion to the 48th Battalion.
The 48th’s first major battle on the Western Front was Pozières. Here, it was tasked with defending ground captured in earlier attacks by the 2nd Division and entered the firing line on two separate occasions – 5 to 7 and 12 to 15 August. During the former period the battalion endured what was said to be heaviest artillery barrage ever experienced by Australian troops and suffered 598 casualties. A diorama at the Australian War Memorial depicts the battalion’s experience at Pozieres. Before it had recovered from the trials of Pozières, the 48th was also required to defend ground captured during the battle of Mouquet Farm.
www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_11235.asp
www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/pozieres-windmill/48th-battali...
www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_pozieres_ridge.html
www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/histories/4/chapters/22.pdf
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W Hussey…………………Gunner
Name: HUSSEY, CONRAD WILLIAM
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery Unit Text: 225th Siege Bty. Age: 29 Date of Death: 22/04/1917 Service No: 115253
Additional information: Son of Conrad Richard and Sarah Hussey, of Mile End Nursery, Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 7. Cemetery: HERVIN FARM BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. LAURENT-BLANGY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=262882
A picture of Gunner Hussey can be seen on Norlink here:
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The accompanying notes read
“Gunner Hussey was born at 22 Mile End Road, Norwich and educated at the Higher Grade School. He enlisted in 1916 and later died from wounds received in action in France, 22nd April 1917”
Conrad is remembered on a family headstone in the Earlham Cemetery
www.flickr.com/photos/43688219@N00/3019965323/
Until 9 April 1917, the Allied front line ran practically through the village of St. Laurent-Blangy. Hervin Farm was taken by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 9 April 1917 and the cemetery was made by fighting units and field ambulances in that month; three graves were added subsequently. The cemetery now contains 51 burials of the First World War, three of them unidentified. The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=26102&...
The 1901 Census has Conrad W., aged 13, born Eaton, Norwich and now resident Mile End Nursery, Mile End Road, Norwich, the household of his parents, Conrad R, (aged 54, a Nursery Man from Yarmouth), and Sarah, (aged 49 and from Hackney, London) as well as siblings:-
Ella F………………….aged 10
Grace E……………..aged 16.….a dressmaker
Lilian E………………aged 14.…..a chocolate packer
Mabel S…………….aged 19
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G V Jenks…………………………Corporal
Probably
Name: JENKS Initials: G
Rank: Corporal Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Secondary Unit Text: attd. "Y" 4th Trench Mortar Bty.
Date of Death: 10/11/1918 Service No: 121633
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. A. 7. Cemetery: CAMBRAI EAST MILITARY CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=550928
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
Update - see 2nd comment below
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C H Johnson………………………Lance Corporal
Name: JOHNSON, CHARLES H.
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 24 Date of Death: 05/10/1916 Service No: 43500
Additional information: Son of Amelia Johnson, of 4, Golden Dog Lane, Norwich, and the late Thomas Johnson.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 1 C and 1 D. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=796145
Charles can be seen here:-
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The accompanying notes read,
The only son of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Johnson, of Norwich, Lance Corporal Johnson was killed in action near Thiepval, France, on 5th October 1916, aged 24 years.
The 1901 Census has a 9 year old Charles Johnson living at 93 Calvert Street, Norwich. He was born in Hampstead, Herts. This is the household of his mother. Amelia, aged 38, and a married dressmaker from Norwich. Also resident are his sisters Elsie, (aged 8), and Gertrude, (aged 10).
On 26 September Gough's Reserve Army launched its first major offensive since the opening day of the battle in an attempt to capture the German fortress of Thiepval. The 18th (Eastern) Division, which had excelled on 1 July, once more demonstrated by capturing most of Thiepval on the first day that careful training, preparation and leadership could overcome the obstacles of trench warfare.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme
www.somme-1916.com/thiepval.htm
www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_ancre_heights.html
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C H Keefe…………………………Captain Flight Commander
Name: KEEFE, CECIL HENDERSON
Rank: Flight Commander
Service: Royal Flying Corps
Age: 25 Date of Death: 05/02/1918
Grave/Memorial Reference: South-East part. Cemetery: EATON (ST. ANDREW) NEW CHURCHYARD
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2803019
Flight Commander Keefe can hopefully be seen here, (page was temporarily unavailable)
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
There is a smaller version here
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Accompanying notes read:
Keefe, Flight Commander Cecil Henderson, 6th Norfolks, transferred to R.A.F.
Flight Commander Keefe was born on 15th July 1892. He enlisted 7th August 1914 and was killed in a flying accident over Lincolnshire 5th February 1918
The 1901 Census has the 8 year old Cecil living at 127 Rosary Road, Norwich. Cecil was born at Wincanton, Somerset. This is the household of his parents, William E., a 35 year old Solicitor from Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, and Georgina, aged 35 and also from Mapperley. Cecil’s brother Edgar E P B, (aged 9) makes up the household.
The Keefe’s also have a live in servant.
From the Flight Magazine of the 14th February 1918:-
“As a result of a collision in the air at an aerodrome in Lincolnshire on February 6th, two officers, Lt C H Keefe and Lt L.Riley, both of London, were killed.”
www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1918/1918 - 0176.html?search=Keefe
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A Kent………………………………....Private
No obvious match on the CWGC database
No match on Norlink
Possibly the 11 year old Archibald Kent living at 8 College Road, Norwich is the most likely match on the 1901 Census. This is the household of his parents Thomas W,. a 49 year old Stationers Managers from Bury St.Edmunds, and Florence, (aged 42 from Norwich).
Archibald’s siblings are:-
Frank S………………………….aged 1.………………born Norwich
Isabel M………………………..aged 16.…………….born Upper Holloway, London..Drapers Apprentice
Olive M………………………….aged 18.……………..born Upper Holloway, London.
In that case we also have a possible match on the CWGC database,
Name: KENT, ARCHIBALD
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Date of Death: 02/12/1917 Service No: 29673
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 4. Memorial: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
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“By 29 November it had become apparent that the enemy was assembling a force in the area of Villers Guislain, south of 12th Division in area of 55th. Warning orders were issued: just in time, for on 30 November at 6.45am, heavy shellfire began to fall and by 7.45am Divisional HQ was already out of touch with its forward units. The failure of the 24 November attack now became apparent as the enemy had invisibly assembled a considerable attacking force in the canal valley. A hard and confused fight followed as the German infantry advanced, the Division falling back across the recently won ground. By the end of the day the line had held at La Vacquerie.
Further German efforts on 1 December were largely held off, although by now losses to some units had been as high as 50% of the strength they had before the counter attack. Relieved on 3-4 December, the Division - excluding its artillery which stayed a while longer - moved to Albert and from there moved by train to Aire, with billets at nearby Thiennes and Berguette.”
Update - see 2nd comment below
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K C Kirby………………………Lieutenant
Name: KIRBY, KENNETH CAMERON
Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Age: 22 Date of Death: 18/09/1918
Additional information: Son of Hector Kirby, of "Invermoriston," Mile End Rd., Norwich, and the late Jessie Cameron Kirby.
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. C. 18. Cemetery: EPEHY WOOD FARM CEMETERY, EPEHY
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No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has the 4 year old Kenneth living at 12 Trinity Street, Norwich. This is the household of his maternal Grandfather, Donald S.Camerson, a 63 year old Master Tailor and Widower, from Scotland. Living with Donald is his daughter, Jessie Kirby, (aged 36 and born London) and her husband, Hector, (aged 40 and a Tailors Cutter from Maidstone), who are Kenneths parents. The Kirby’s other children are Derek, (aged under 1), and Stuart, (aged 3).
Lt Kirby is recorded on the Aviva\Norwich Union Roll of Honour. He had been employed in Norwich by one of the group’s companies, North British and Mercantile Insurance Company
www.aviva.com/index.asp?pageid=1435&letter=k
I can only assume Lt Kirby was on secondment to another unit, as the 4th Norfolks were in Palestine at this time.
The notes on the graveyeard history on the CWGC web-site reads
The village of Epehy was captured at the beginning of April 1917. It was lost on 22 March 1918 after a spirited defence by the Leicester Brigade of the 21st Division and the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers. It was retaken (in the Battle of Epehy) on 18 September 1918, by the 7th Norfolks, 9th Essex and 1st/1st Cambridgeshires of the 12th (Eastern) Division. The cemetery takes its name from the Ferme du Bois, a little to the east. Plots I and II were made by the 12th Division after the capture of the village, and contain the graves of officers and men who died in September 1918 (or, in a few instances, in April 1917 and March 1918).
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As anyone who has ever used a keypad knows, 4s and 7’s can be easy to mis-type.
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G L Laing……………………….Corporal
Name: LAING, GEORGE LEWIS
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 26 Date of Death: 24/08/1914 Service No: 7051
Additional information: Son of Mrs. S. A. Laing, of 102, Portland St., Norwich.
Memorial: LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL
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No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has the 12 year old George living at 11 Bury Street, Norwich. This is the household of his parents, David Laing, (aged 47 and a Builder from Mattishall) and Sarah. A. (aged 47 and from South Walsham). Their other children are Edward E. (aged 10), Elsie M. (aged 5), and William D. (aged 14 and a Merchants Clerk). All the children were born in Norwich.
Elouges village and commune was the scene of the Action of Elouges (24 August 1914), in which the Germans were held in check by units of the 2nd Cavalry and 15th Infantry Brigades
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This picture is derived from a postcard dated c.1900.
The signal box replaced an earlier one in 1890 and was closed on Saturday 24th July 1937.
The station opened on 1st February 1876, and was served by passenger trains until the closure of Mapperley Tunnel from Monday 4th April 1960, due to subsidence caused by Gedling Colliery blocking the through route.
Apparently the last passenger train through the tunnel left Nottingham Victoria at 6:10 pm on Saturday the 2nd of April 1960 calling at all stations to Basford North.
The line remained available for goods trains until midnight that same day after which a couple of rail lengths were removed at either end of the tunnel.
For a spell, this would've actually been a regular sight, as it was a GO2 Red vehicle for the circular services (as were) 44 and 45!!
708 waits for the lights to change on Upper Parliament Street with a 45 to Gedling via Woodborough Road and Mapperley.
Another photo down on what may well be my most documented vehicle in the double deck fleet....
620 is pictured leaving Mapperley Shops on a 25 to Nottingham via Gedling and Carlton.
TRR953 was one of three AEC Regent V MD3RVs with Park Royal H33/28R bodies bought by West Bridgford Urban District Council Passenger Transport Department in 1955.
It was waiting at the South Parade, Nottingham, terminus of several of WBUDC's joint services with Nottingham City Transport, with Nottingham's Council House in the background, when this picture was taken in August 1968. Behind is one of NCT's similarly bodied exposed radiator D3RV Regent Vs bought around the same time. Whilst TRR's AV470 engine may have been adequate for the relatively flat West Bridgford routes, NCT needed the extra power of the AV590, particularly for the hillier Arnold & Mapperley routes in the north east of the City.
At the end of the following month, TRR953 joined the NCT fleet, when WBUDC involvement in bus operation came to an end.
unframed watercolour 42cm x 28cm approx
Pictured above - Snow covered Fields Above Hagg Farm , Felley Mill Lane , Underwood ,Nottinghamshire in January 1985. The Saturday afternoon on which the
picture was taken was truly gloomy and bitterly cold.
The text below is reproduced from the Haggs Farm Preservation Society's -
now closed Geocities Website -
TITLE : THE CHAMBERS FAMILY'S HAGGS FARM TENANCY .
" a tiny red farm on he edge of a wood.That was Miriam's farm - where I got my first incentive to write " - so recalled D.H.Lawrence . . .
Miriam Leivers was a major fictional character of D.H.Lawrence's novel "Sons and Lovers" . As became his life long habit , Lawrence based his character accurately
upon a person he had knowledge of . The person used as the model for Miriam was Jessie Chambers of Haggs Farm , a young woman he knew better than any other.
In 1898 when John Leivers had decided to end his tenancy of Haggs Farm there were six applications to take it up.They included men from Hucknall,Blidworth and Awsworth.The successful applicant was Edmund Chambers of Breach Road,Eastwood and it was during his tenacy,that lasted until 1910,that the farm's association with
D H Lawrence developed. Edmund Chambers had been born on Breach Road in 1863 where both his father Jonathon and grandfather William had been in business as grocers and pawnbrokers.One of Edmund's first jobs appears to have been as a grocery assistant in Nottingham,where the 1881 census records him as an eighteen years old boarder with Henry Hunt at Penrhyon Terrace.His employment as a provision merchant's assistant was at Burton's of Smithy Row,a high-class Nottingham grocery. On December 4th that same year he married Sarah Oates a twenty-two years old lace hand who at the date of the census had been living with her parents David and Jane at Ortgen Street,Nottingham.On the marriage certificate,Edmund is described as a "provision merchant" and his father as a "gentleman"! The first two children by the marriage,Alan and May,were born in Mapperly near Nottingham in 1882 and 1883, but by the time daughter Jessie was born in January 1887 the family were living in Netherfield on the eastern fringe of the city where Edmund was running a grocery shop. In 1890 the family were in Caythorpe in Lincolnshire but their stay there was short for the 1891 census shows Edmund back in Eastwood and living in the Breach near his widowed mother Elizabeth who was still running the grocery store.Edmund's occupation is recorded as general labourer though at some time before the the move to the Haggs he had established a milk round in Eastwood.It was with financial support from his his mother - "in anticipation of of his inheritance" - that he began farming. Some while previous to his 1898 successful application for the Haggs Farm tenancy he had failed in an application for the neighbouring Felley Farm.In that application he was described as living at the Breach,being a dairyman,was young(he was near thirty)and that he was married.Among his referees he included Dr.Barber,Henry Saxton and Mr.Brentnall of Eastwood.Another(surviving)child had born to to the couple whilst in Eastwood,Molly,born in 1895.On October 13th 1898,six months after the move to the Haggs the birth of another child,Jonathon David,completed the Chambers family.
Elsewhere in this Lenton Sands Lawrence Photostream is a picture of the Chambers Family at Haggs Farm taken on June 29th 1899 . It is reproduced from its original by courtesy of Mrs.Ann ( Chambers ) Howard its then owner . ]
In that photograph the Chambers family members are : -
Rear : Edmund Chambers ( father - wearing hat. ) [born 1863]
All others - left to right : May [born 1883] ; Bernard [b.1890] ; Molly - little girl [b.1896]
Sarah Ann - mother holding baby [b. 1859] ; David - baby on Mother's knee.[b.1898}
Jessie - kneeling [ b.1887 ] ; Hubert - boy [ b.1888 ] ; Allen - at extreme right [b.1882]
A rental dated shortly after the commencement of the Haggs Farm tenancy shows Edmund Chambers holding
just more than twenty acres in Greasley,a little more than John Leivers' eventual final rented acreage.( The
land may have been the two fields opposite Greasley church where Lawrence helped with hay making.) Estate records suggest that initially at least Mr.Chambers had problems regarding his land.He complained that his land was over-run with rabbits and gave notice to quit with effect from Lady day 1903 - a notice subseqently withdrawn.About the same time he again applied for the tenancy of Felley Farm and also for that of another unspecified farm that had been previously in the occupation of John Bentley. Towards the end of 1903 he had written to the Melbourne Estate's agent complaining about his rent relative to the (low)quality of his land.He also had acknowledged a promise of a supply of "basic Slag" that he required as a fertiliser.He had previously written,"the grass requires something more than yard manure to pull it round".A further request of his landlord was the replacement of his farmhouse kitchen copper,for his wife Sarah judged it "worn through".Years later,confirming the poor quality of his land,his daughter Jessie in one of her letters referred to "the unwilling and stinted growth ... and the meagre crops of the stiff clay of the Haggs". After that apparent crisis time Edmund Chambers tenancy seemed more settled.However he finally ended his tenancy in 1910 and moved to the Swinehouse farm in Arno Vale,Woodthorpe,on the outskirts of Nottingham.
During their time at the Haggs the two eldest Chambers daughters were baptised in the then recently built(1890) church at Underwood - first May at the age of sixteen on December 11th,1899 and then Jessie(whilst almost 14 years)on December 1st of 1901.The younger Chambers children attended Underwood school.
Above Picture : St Michael and All Angels Church Underwood circa 1900 -
the church the Chambers family attended .
The Underwood school logbook of 1902 records Jessie Chambers - then aged 15 - as being a monitress in the
mixed school.In November she is recorded as being a pupil teacher under the headmaster
George Stringfellow.She obviously found her duties stressful,for two months later the Head noted that
"Miss Chambers obliged to go home ill through being overworked with a large Standard III" . In October
1903 Jessie was transferred to the infants school "on account of being overworked".
With the infants she appeared to find life easier and was able to progress with the necessities of her own
academic studies.In May of 1906 she passed the King's Scholarship examination.However Jessie Chambers
did not advance to University as she might have,for in the autumn of 1903 she returned to her work in the
mixed school and remained at Underwood school until her family moved to Arno Vale.
Underwood School in 1909.
Miss Chambers is at the right of the picture as viewed .
[ Photograph by courtesy of Mr.George Hardy . ]
Concerning the Chambers children other than Jessie : -
Bernard , Hubert , May and Molly all emigrated to Canada .
The eldest son , Alan , remained in England to run a dairy situated close
by his fathers farm on Breck Hill Road , Mapperley , Nottingham .
The youngest son , David Chambers , had a distinguished academic career ,
For those of you who are familiar with Arnold, this is looking over Calverton Road & Surgey's Lane. Leading over in the distance,just visible is the Travellers Rest, Mellish Rugby Football Club floodlights on Mapperley Plains.
Majestic Cinema, Mapperley, Nottingham. Designed by A J Thraves and opened in 1929, the Majestic seated 721 in stalls and circle. It closed in 1957 and was converted (with minimal alteration) to a store. More recently it has been reopened as The Old Cinema, a paranormal museum with a cafe. On selected nights horror films are screened using some balcony seating.
Mapperley, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK - former Majestic Cinema, Woodborough Road
August 2020