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For the time being this is as far up the Ashland Sub as the FOXY goes. Nine empty cars were spotted here at the wood yard and they went to work loading them right away. Taking advantage of a trackside cafe the crew tied down the 4187 on the main track and "went to beans". The crossing of the South Fork of the Flambeau River is in the foreground. June 6, 2022.
Royale Wilshire
Olive Philips, a Los Angeles leader of the anti-liquor Woman's Christian Temperance Union, had the upscale Arcady apartment-hotel built on the site of the Higgins mansion, which was moved down Wilshire to Windsor Square in 1924.
Philips took an apartment herself and advertised the Arcady for people who are accustomed to fine living. A 1928 ad for the Arcady in the Los Angeles Times described deluxe service with "all the work being taken care of by a thoroughly-trained crew of maids, butlers, housemen, pages, valets, laundresses and porters." Rates in 1930 were $5 a day and up for a room and $150 a month for apartments.
The building has since served as a Howard Johnson's hotel and Fifield Manor, a home for elderly members of the First Congregational Church at Lafayette Park.
It was recently renovated as the Wilshire Royale luxury apartments, with work that included relighting the celebrated rooftop neon signage.
This photograph was in an unmarked album of 128 photos. Few were dated: two photographs from 1924; eight from 1925; six from 1926; and three from 1932. The images all appear to be centered on Stuart Guy Fifield family and friends. -- Lokks like maybe the house in Penacook.
This photograph was in an unmarked album of 150 photos. Only five photographs were dated—three copies of the same image of Janice Dawe in a sled from 3 April 1920 (she would have been two weeks shy of one year old,) one from Bear Brook New Hampshire dated March 1922, and the last from Northwood New Hampshire on 22 May 1922. Excepting the 1920 picture, the images all appear to be from around 1922 and are centered on the Stuart Guy Fifield family. Stuart's house on Washington Street Penacook
OAK HARBOR, Wash. (April 18, 2016) Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Flying Officer Michael Hoddinett, RAAF Wing Commander Grant Fifield, RAAF Air Commodore Mike Kitcher, director, General Capability Planning, Capt. Scott Farr, commodore, Electronic Attack Wing, Pacific, and RAAF Flying Officer Spencer Harry pose next to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129's EA-18G Growler 577, sporting an Australian paint scheme. The VAQ community is excited to continue the partnership with Australia, both in EA-18G training and in our operational EA-18G squadrons. The RAAF will soon have this capability in the South West Pacific Area of Operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Hetherington)
The program that was published when this building was dedicated in 1912 included the following:
History of the NSGW Building
by Lewis F. Byington, Past Grand President
The new Native Sons’ Building, just completed and situated on the east side of Mason Street, between Geary and Post Streets, is unquestionably the best appointed and arranged fraternal building in California, and for the lodge and social purposes the most centrally located of any in San Francisco. It stands on the same block as the St. Francis Hotel and within a radius of two blocks are Union Square at the heart of the city, the Hotel Bellevue, the Stewart Hotel, the Olympic Club, the Bohemian Club, the Union League Club, and the Elks’ Club, the Columbia, Alcazar and Orpheum Theatres, and most of the leading hotels, clubs, restaurants, and places of amusement in San Francisco.
It is a “Class A,” steel frame structure, eight stories in height, with a beautiful and ornamented façade of granite, terra cotta and brick. Around the two main entrances to the building are placed medallions of distinguished men, who are thus honored and commemorated for their services in connection with the discovery and civilization of California. They are: Cabrillo, discoverer of California; Father Junipero Serra, civilizer and founder of missions; General John A. Sutter, typical pioneer; General John C. Fremont, U.S.A., the Pathfinder; Admiral John Drake Sloat, U.S.N., who raised the American flag at Monterey; James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold; Peter Burnett, the first American governor of California; General M. G. Vallejo, typical Hispano-Californian; General A. M. Winn, Founder of the Order of the Native Sons of the Golden West.
Set in the front of the building at the height of the second story are six terra cotta panels, the work of Domingo Mora and his son, Joseph J. Mora, artistically designed and depicting important historical events, namely: “The Discovery of California”; “Civilization”; “The Raising of the Bear Flag”; “The Raising of the American Flag”; “The Pioneers”; “The Discovery of Gold.” The sculptured heads of grizzly bears, which mark the line of the third floor, have been designed as emblematic of California, while the sculptured phoenix, placed over the doorways, typifies San Francisco.
The phoenix was a wonderful bird, fabled to exist for 500 years, the only of its kind. It built a funeral pile of spices and aromatic gums, lighted the pile with the fanning of its wings, and was burned upon it, but from its ashes revived in the freshness of youth. It is the emblematic bird of San Francisco, adopted and placed upon its seal in early days after the city had been four times destroyed by fire. During a recent visit to Europe, Mr. James D. Phelan, the president of the Hall association, found in the Vatican at Rome the most ancient sculptured representation of the phoenix and which is attributed to the famous Greek sculptor Praxiteles. Mr. Phelan secured a splendid reproduction in marble of this work of art and presented it to the Hall Association, and it is now in the new building.
The building contains one of the largest and best-appointed assembly halls for dances, concerts and entertainments in California; also fourteen well-lighted, handsomely furnished, and artistically arranged lodge rooms; the offices of the Grand Secretary; Library and Reading Rooms. Over the main assembly hall is the largest steel truss ever built in California, and which supports the floors above. The eighth floor is arranged for club room purposes and is admirably designed for this object. The rooms are spacious, high and well lighted, both from above and from the front and sides. In the front an artistic loggia has been placed from which the city to the west may be viewed, while at the rear a pergola, over which vines will be twined, furnishes an artistic, sheltered, open-air places for the members to sit. The Grand Parlor has taken steps to secure all books, data and records bearing upon the history and development of California and these doubtless will be stored here. In time, an Historical Museum will also be maintained within the building.
In the main hall are twenty circular windows, which it has been decided to use for art glass portraits of twenty Native Sons and Native Daughters who have won distinction in the arts and sciences, literature and drama. The names of the following have so far been selected: Gertrude Atherton, literature; Sybil Sanderson, music; Mary Anderson, drama. Upon the walls of the upper floors will be hung portraits of the distinguished men and women, not natives of California, who have in this State won distinction in literature, science and the arts. The grandeur of the Yosemite and our mountains and lakes may also be depicted upon other windows and these features will add materially to the beauty of our building and will make it unique among the structures of the country. The building will stand as the home of the Order in the State, and as the noblest and most enduring monument to the perpetuity of the organization and for the advancement of its principles of Friendship, Loyalty and Charity.
The architects of the building are Righetti and Headman (E.H. Hildebrand, associate). The superintendant of construction was Mr. P.J. Walker and his foreman Mr. J.S. Fifield.
Since the destruction of the Native Sons’ Building by the fire of April 18, 1906, it has been the desire of the members to see erected in this city, and upon the lot where that building stood, a home for the fraternity, within which the local lodges may meet and where members from all over California may find an hospitable welcome amidst pleasant and comfortable surroundings. That desire has now been realized.
The Hall Association of the Native Sons of the Golden West was incorporated April 5, 1893, for the purpose of securing a site upon which to erect a home for the Order. The first Board of Directors selected was composed of the following members of the fraternity: John H. Grady, Henry Lundstedt, Dr. C.W. Decker, W.W. Shannon, T.E. Keough, George D. Clark, John T. Greany, John A. Steinbach, W.H. Miller, J.R. Kropp, Adolph Eberhart, Lewis F. Byington, T. C. Conmy, John H. Nelson, T.P. Leonard, Joseph B. Keenan, H..J. Seitz, G.H.S. Dryden, W. J. Wynn, W. E. Foley, Daniel Suter, C.H. Hobson, J.P. Donovan, R. Horber, C.H. Mass, J.W. Reinfeld, H.G.W. Dinkelspiel, Sol. Bloom, J.R. Howell, Louis Nonnenmann, H.E. Coffey, Jas. P. Sweeney, L.L. Dennery, L.M. Bannan, W.P. Johnson, and A.E. Holmes.
The Association purchased from the Congregation Ohabai Shalome, for $42,500, the lot located on the east side of Mason Street, sixty-eight feet and nine inches north of Geary Street, and having a frontage of sixty-eight feet and nine inches and a depth of one hundred and thirty-seven feet and six inches. One of the first synagogues erected in this city stood upon the lot.
Competitive plans for a lodge building were invited and those submitted by Mr. A.C. Lutgens were selected and the handsome five-story “Class C” building erected which stood until destroyed in the early morning of April 19, 1906, by the disastrous fire which then swept the city. It was erected at a cost of about $82,000, and contained a large assembly hall, the offices of the Grand Secretary, the Library and Reading Room and seven lodge rooms. The corner stone was laid on Washington’s birthday, 1895, and the building was dedicated February 9, 1896. Shortly after its completion, Irving M. Scott presented to the Hall Association a magnificent painting by William Keith, California’s greatest landscape artist. It depicted one of California’s fruitful valleys and was entitled “The Heritage of the Native Sons.” It was burned with the building.
When the Association concluded to rebuild upon the old site, it was determined to erect a “Class A” building in line with the spirit of progress which animated the citizens of the new San Francisco. The capital stock of the Association was, therefore, increased to $400,000 (50,000 shares of a par value of $8.00 each).
The corner stone of the new building was laid February 22, 1911. It is the old corner stone saved from the fire with a new stone covering it. Upon the old stone appears the inscription:
HALL OF
NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
A.D. 1895”
And upon the stone above is carved:
BUILDING DESTROYED BY FIRE, APRIL 19, 1906
CORNER STONE RELAID FEBRURARY 22, 1911
“Program: Dedication of NSGW Building 1912”. Published by NSGW, San Francisco, Cal.
written on back: "Fifield Farm, West Unity, New Hampshire where Aunt Jerusha fifield (married David Smith) was born, lived and died."
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Liverpool on Thursday the 10th. August 1911 to:
Miss A. Kirk,
c/o Mr. Deakin,
The Tucker,
Bamford,
Derbyshire.
The pencilled message on the divided back was as follows:
"Dear Alice,
We have just had a
lovely day here at
Llandudno, it has
been splendid.
Hope you are getting
on alright.
With love from
Mary".
The Pier Pavilion Theatre, which is to the left of the Grand Hotel, burnt down in 1994.
Llandudno
Llandudno is a seaside resort in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. The town's name is derived from its patron saint, Saint Tudno.
Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales, and as early as 1861 was being called 'the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places' (a phrase later also used in connection with Tenby and Aberystwyth; the word 'resort' came a little later).
History of Llandudno
The town of Llandudno developed from Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements over many hundreds of years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula.
The origins in recorded history are with the Manor of Gogarth conveyed by King Edward I to Annan, Bishop of Bangor in 1284.
The Great Orme
Mostly owned by Mostyn Estates, the Great Orme is home to several large herds of wild Kashmiri goats originally descended from a pair given by Queen Victoria to Lord Mostyn.
The summit of the Great Orme stands at 679 feet (207 m). The Summit Hotel, now a tourist attraction, was once the home of world middleweight champion boxer Randolph Turpin.
The limestone headland is a haven for flora and fauna, with some rare species such as peregrine falcons and a species of wild cotoneaster (cambricus) which can only be found on the Great Orme.
The sheer limestone cliffs provide ideal nesting conditions for a wide variety of sea birds, including cormorants, shags, guillemots, razorbills, puffins, kittiwakes, fulmars and numerous gulls.
There are several attractions including the Great Orme Tramway and the Llandudno Cable Car that takes tourists to the summit. The Great Orme also has the longest toboggan run in Britain at 750m.
The Development of Llandudno
By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand people, served by the new church of St. George, built in 1840. The great majority of the men worked in the copper mines, with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture.
In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from Liverpool, presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marshlands behind Llandudno Bay as a holiday resort. These were enthusiastically pursued by Lord Mostyn.
The influence of the Mostyn Estate and its agents over the years was paramount in the development of Llandudno, especially after the appointment of George Felton as surveyor and architect in 1857.
Between 1857 and 1877 much of central Llandudno was developed under Felton's supervision. Felton also undertook architectural design work, including the design and execution of the Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.
The Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway operated an electric tramway service between Llandudno and Rhos-on-Sea from 1907, this being extended to Colwyn Bay in 1908. The service closed in 1956.
Llandudno Attractions
The Beach and The Parade
A beach of sand, shingle and rock curves two miles between the headlands of the Great Orme and the Little Orme.
For most of the length of Llandudno's North Shore there is a wide curving Victorian promenade. The road, collectively known as The Parade, has a different name for each block, and it is on these parades and crescents that many of Llandudno's hotels are built.
Llandudno Pier
The pier is on the North Shore. Built in 1878, it is a Grade II listed building.
The pier was extended in 1884 in a landward direction along the side of what was the Baths Hotel (where the Grand Hotel now stands) to provide a new entrance with the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre, thus increasing the pier's length to 2,295 feet (700 m); it is the longest pier in Wales.
Attractions on the pier include a bar, a cafe, amusement arcades, children's fairground rides and an assortment of shops & kiosks.
In the summer, Professor Codman's Punch and Judy show (established in 1860) can be found on the promenade near the entrance to the pier.
The Happy Valley
The Happy Valley, a former quarry, was the gift of Lord Mostyn to the town in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. The area was landscaped and developed as gardens, two miniature golf courses, a putting green, a popular open-air theatre and extensive lawns.
Ceremonies connected with the Welsh National Eisteddfod were held there in 1896, and again in 1963.
In June 1969, the Great Orme Cabin Lift, a modern alternative to the tramway, was opened with its base station adjacent to the open-air theatre. The distance to the summit is just over 1 mile (1.6 km), and the four-seater cabins travel at 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h) on a continuous steel cable over 2 miles (3.2 km) long.
It is the longest single-stage cabin lift in Great Britain, and the longest span between pylons is over 1,000 feet (300 m).
The popularity of the 'Happy Valley Entertainers' open-air theatre having declined, the theatre closed in 1985. Likewise the two miniature golf courses closed, and were converted in 1987 to create a 280-metre (920 ft) artificial ski slope and toboggan run. The gardens were extensively restored as part of the resort's millennium celebrations, and remain a major attraction.
Marine Drive
The first route round the perimeter of the Great Orme was a footpath constructed in 1858 by Reginald Cust, a trustee of the Mostyn Estate. In 1872 the Great Orme's Head Marine Drive Co. Ltd. was formed to turn the path into a carriage road.
Following bankruptcy, a second company completed the road in 1878. The contractors for the scheme were Messrs Hughes, Morris, Davies, a consortium led by Richard Hughes of Madoc Street, Llandudno.
The road was bought by Llandudno Urban District Council in 1897. The 4 mile (6.4 km) one-way drive starts at the foot of the Happy Valley. After about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) a side road leads to St. Tudno's Church, the Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine and the summit of the Great Orme.
Continuing on the Marine Drive the Great Orme Lighthouse (now a small hotel) is passed, and, shortly afterwards on the right, the Rest and Be Thankful Cafe and information centre.
Below the Marine Drive at its western end is the site of the wartime Coast Artillery School (1940–1945), now a scheduled ancient monument.
The West Shore
The West Shore is a quiet beach on the estuary of the River Conwy. It was here at Pen Morfa that Alice Liddell (of Alice in Wonderland fame) spent the long summer holidays of her childhood from 1862 to 1871.
There are a few hotels and quiet residential streets. The West Shore is linked to the North Shore by Gloddaeth Avenue and Gloddaeth Street, a wide dual carriageway.
Mostyn Street
Running behind the promenade is Mostyn Street, leading to Mostyn Broadway and then Mostyn Avenue. These are the main shopping streets of Llandudno. Mostyn Street accommodates the high street shops, the major high street banks and building societies, two churches, amusement arcades and the town's public library.
The last is the starting point for the Town Trail, a planned walk that facilitates viewing Llandudno in a historical perspective.
Victorian Extravaganza
Every year in May bank holiday weekend, Llandudno has a three-day Victorian Carnival, and Mostyn Street becomes a funfair.
Madoc Street and Gloddaeth Street and the Promenade become part of the route each day for a mid-day carnival parade. Also the Bodafon Farm fields become the location of a Festival of Transport for the weekend.
Venue Cymru
The North Wales Theatre, Arena and Conference Centre, built in 1994, and extended in 2006 and renamed "Venue Cymru", is located near the centre of the promenade on Penrhyn Crescent.
It is noted for its productions of opera, orchestral concerts, ballet, musical theatre, drama, circus, ice shows and pantomimes.
The Llandudno Lifeboat
Until 2017, Llandudno was unique within the United Kingdom in that its lifeboat station was located inland, allowing it to launch with equal facility from either the West Shore or the North Shore as needed.
In 2017, a new lifeboat station was completed, and new, high-speed, offshore and inshore lifeboats, and a modern launching system, were acquired. This station is close to the paddling pool on North Shore.
Llandudno's active volunteer crews are called out more than ever with the rapidly increasing numbers of small pleasure craft sailing in coastal waters. The Llandudno Lifeboat is normally on display on the promenade every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from May until October.
The Ancient Parish Church
The ancient parish church dedicated to Saint Tudno stands in a hollow near the northern point of the Great Orme, and is two miles (3 km) from the present town.
It was established as an oratory by Tudno, a 6th.-century monk, but the present church dates from the 12th. century and it is still used on summer Sunday mornings.
Llandudno's Links with Mametz and Wormhout
-- Mametz
The 1st. (North Wales) Brigade was headquartered in Llandudno in December 1914, and included a battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had been raised and trained in Llandudno.
Skirting the Fricourt salient, the British 7th. Division took the village of Mametz in the afternoon of the 1st. July 1916. However Mametz Wood to the north-east of the village held great German resistance. This blocked all Allied progress in a northeasterly direction.
After eight days of fierce combat, with heavy losses, did the 38th. Welsh Division capture the wood on the 12th. July 1916.
A monument to the 38th. Welsh Division was inaugurated on the 11th. July 1987. The monument takes the form of a plinth surmounted by a red dragon, the emblem of Wales. With its wings held aloft, it carries in its claws pieces of barbed wire, attesting to the fierce nature of the fighting.
The hostilities brought about the total destruction of Mametz village by shelling. After the war, the people of Llandudno (including returning survivors) contributed generously to the fund for the reconstruction of the village of Mametz.
-- Wormhout
Llandudno is twinned with the Flemish town of Wormhout which is 10 miles (16 km) from Dunkirk. It was near there that many members of the Llandudno-based 69th. Territorial Regiment were ambushed and taken prisoner.
The Site Mémoire de la Plaine au Bois near Wormhout commemorates the massacre of these prisoners on the 28th. May 1940. The men had been retreating towards Dunkirk ahead of the advancing Germans.
About 100 troops, having run out of ammunition, surrendered to the Germans, assuming that they would be taken prisoner according to the Geneva Convention.
However they were all imprisoned in a small barn, and the SS threw stick-grenades into the building, killing many POW's.
However the grenades failed to kill everyone, largely due to the bravery of two British NCO's, Stanley Moore and Augustus Jennings, who hurled themselves on top of the grenades, using their bodies to shield their comrades from the blast.
In order to finish off the remaining soldiers, the SS fired into the barn with rifles and automatic weapons. A few survived to tell the tale, but no-one was ever indicted for war crimes because of insufficient evidence.
A replica of the barn can be seen at the site of the massacre.
Llandudno's Cultural Connections
Matthew Arnold gives a vivid and lengthy description of 1860's Llandudno - and of the ancient tales of Taliesin and Maelgwn Gwynedd that are associated with the local landscape - in the first sections of the preface to 'On the Study of Celtic Literature' (1867).
Llandudno is also used as a location for dramatic scenes in the stage play and film 'Hindle Wakes' by Stanley Houghton, and the 1911 novel, 'The Card', by Arnold Bennett, and its subsequent film version.
Elisabeth of Wied, the Queen Consort of Romania and also known as writer Carmen Sylva, stayed in Llandudno for five weeks in 1890.
On leaving, she described Wales as "A beautiful haven of peace". Translated into Welsh as "Hardd, hafan, hedd", it became the town's official motto.
Other famous people with links to Llandudno include the Victorian statesman John Bright and multi-capped Welsh international footballers Neville Southall, Neil Eardley, Chris Maxwell and Joey Jones.
Australian ex-Prime Minister Billy Hughes attended school in Llandudno. Gordon Borrie QC (Baron Borrie), Director General of the Office of Fair Trading from 1976 to 1992, was educated at the town's John Bright Grammar School when he lived there as a wartime evacuee.
The international art gallery Oriel Mostyn is in Vaughan Street next to the post office. It was built in 1901 to house the art collection of Lady Augusta Mostyn. It was requisitioned in 1914 for use as an army drill hall, and later became a warehouse, before being returned to use as an art gallery in 1979. Following a major revamp the gallery was renamed simply 'Mostyn' in 2010.
Llandudno has its own mini arts festival 'LLAWN' (Llandudno Arts Weekend). It is a mini festival that rediscovers and celebrates Llandudno’s past in rather a unique way; via art, architecture, artefact, sound, performance, and participation.
The festival takes place over three days of a weekend in late September, originally conceived as a way to promote what those in the hospitality sector refer to as the ‘shoulder season’, which means a lull in the tourist calendar.
In January 1984 Brookside character Petra Taylor (Alexandra Pigg) committed suicide in Llandudno.
In 1997, the English cookery programme "Two Fat Ladies" with Jennifer Patterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright filmed an episode in Llandudno.
The Veto Bill
So what else happened on the day that Mary posted the card to Alice?
Well, on the 10th. August 1911, by a margin of 131-114, the House of Lords passed the Parliament Act 1911. It was also called the "Veto Bill" because it allowed the United Kingdom House of Commons to put limits on the Lords' power.
More than 300 eligible peers declined to participate. However, 88 Liberal peers were joined in voting in favour by 29 Tories and 13 of the 15 Anglican archbishops and bishops who cast votes.
Conservative MP George Wyndham later remarked:
"We were beaten by the
bishops and the rats."
A. N. Sherwin-White
The day also marked the birth in Fifield, Oxfordshire of the British historian A. N. Sherwin-White. He died in 1993.
A bronze statue of a Welsh Black bull has taken up residence on the banks of the River Wye at Builth Wells. The 1.5-tonne statue was unveiled during the Royal Welsh Winter Fair by Welsh Black Cattle Society president Evan Tudor. Created by local sculptor Gavin Fifield, it is based on the prize- winning bull, Caerynwch Tywy- sog 6th, which is owned by society vice chairman, Phillip Arrowsmith of Bwlch y Diarth, Doldow- lod, Llandrindod Wells, and was Bull of the Year in 1999, and Bull and Animal of the Year in 2002. in 2014 vandals ripped the tail off.The damage happened some time during the evening of 21 July. The tail has since been recovered but police were appealing for help about how the damage was caused.
This photograph was in an unmarked album of 150 photos. Only five photographs were dated—three copies of the same image of Janice Dawe in a sled from 3 April 1920 (she would have been two weeks shy of one year old,) one from Bear Brook New Hampshire dated March 1922, and the last from Northwood New Hampshire on 22 May 1922. Excepting the 1920 picture, the images all appear to be from around 1922 and are centered on the Stuart Guy Fifield family.
This locomotive was built by Aveling & Porter in 1917. The company are better known for building traction engines. It is an 0-4-0WT compound locomotive with an enclosed cab, steam brake and flywheel. The locomotive was built for Vickers Armstrong Ltd. who were an armaments manufacturers at Erith in Kent and is named after its chief financier. In 1932 it was sold to British Oil and Cake Mills, also at Erith, Kent and was withdrawn from service in 1966 and sold into preservation. Its owner completely rebuilt it with a new firebox, coal bunker and tender. This work was completed in 1993.
Info from preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com
Grade II Listed:
"War memorial. c1920. Limestone.
A tapered octagonal shaft with moulded capital and a cross, on an octagonal plinth cut through by a square base with diagonal buttresses at centres of the sides, carrying 4 pinnacles. All set on a broad 3-step hexagonal base, the lowest step with nosing, on a final hexagonal platform which has been rounded, and protected by 6 stone bollards.
The cross carries a central shield of arms, and the base has a series of 6 bronze plates with the names of the fallen inscribed, dated 1914-1919. A further plate has been added covering the years 1939-1945.
The memorial is at the meeting of the town's three main streets ... " British Listed Buildings
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See Dave Smith's Roll of Honour for the men of Tewkesbury (pdf file, last accessed 14th April 2015)
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"In honour of the men of Tewkesbury who gave their lives for us in the Great War"
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E. Andrews
A. H Askew
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/715614/ATTWOOD,%20CHA... C. Attwood
C. Bailey
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/846926/BALL,%20TOM T. Ball
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/483022/BALL,%20WILLIAM W. Ball
P. Barnes
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/461838/BARNFIELD,%20W... W. J. Barnfield
W. H. Bastable
T. Beesley
W. F. Birt
T. Bishop
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J. Broadwell
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1640556/BROOKES,%20AL... A. L Brookes
R. Clarke
A. Cleal
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/162754/CLEMENTS,%20F%20C F. C. Clements
J. Cole
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/716251/COLEMAN,%20JAM... J. Coleman
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/840879/COLEMAN,%20RAY... R. N. Coleman
F. J. Collins
J. Cook
J. H. Cook
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/638448/COOPEY,%20ALBERT A. Coopey
A. H. Cornish
J. S Dale
C. L. Davey
S. Davies
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/23631/DAY,%20ARTHUR%2... A. C. Day
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1609534/DAY,%20RICHARD R. Day
W. A. Day
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/517018/DEE,%20FRED F. Dee
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1629867/DEVEREUX,%20BERT B. Devereux
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1609882/DEVEREUX,%20L... L. F. Deveraux ?
F. Dickinson
A. J. Didcote
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/92048/DIDCOTE,%20HARR... H. F. Didcote
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/716510/DIDCOTE,%20WIL... W. B. Didcote
G. Eagles
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2911756/EVANS,%20T T. J. Evans ?
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/78541/FITTON,%20WILLI... W. Fitton ?
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/78541/FITTON,%20WILLI... A. J. Fletcher
C. G. Garratt
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/638473/GREEN,%20FRANK... F. N. Green
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/187458/GREEN,%20W%20C W. C. Green
H. A. Greening
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1743053/GREENING,%20JOHN J. Greening
L. Gurney
F. E. Hale
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/501740/HALL,%20R R. Hall
T. Hall
T. Harrington
A. Harrison
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/838902/HATHAWAY,%20SA... S. Hathaway
F. Hawker
P. C. Hawker
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/838902/HATHAWAY,%20SA... W. Hawker
A. G. Hodges
W. Hodges
A. E. Hooper
T. J. Horne
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25.01.17 Basra Memorial
9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regt
family memorial in Tewkesbury cemetery
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www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/858323/HURCOMBE,%20CH... C. Hurcombe
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/617658/HURCOMBE,%20H H. Hurcombe
D. R. Hutchinson
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/177566/HYETT,%20H%20W H. W. Hyett
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/796045/JEYNES,%20JAMES J. Jeynes
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1758863/JONES,%20ALFR... A. L. Jones
G. H. Jones
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1633835/JONES,%20JOHN... J. L Jones
L. Jones
P. H. Jones
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1633931/JONES,%20WILLIAM W. Jones
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/358373/JORDAN,%20WILL... W. H. Jones
A. Jordan
A. E. Jordan
W. Keylock
W. King
G. Mann
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/804417/MANN,%20LOUIS%... L. V. Mann
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1657708/MANN,%20NICHO.... J. Mann
J. Matty
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/104742/MAYALL,%20FRED... F. Mayall
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27.08.16 Thiepval Memorial
1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt
MOORE, L. W., Capt., Gloucester Regt. Studied at Guy's for 3½ years, and on the outbreak of war he enlisted as private in the Gloucestershire Regt. Was quickly promoted to a second lieutenancy. Went to the Front in March, 1915, and served with his regiment until the time of his death, August 29th (sic), 1918.
Lieut. Moore, who was acting Captain of his company, was only 23 years of age last November. He was educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School and King's School, Worcester. Upon the completion of his school career he took up his studies for the medical profession, and was for 3½ years at Guy's Hospital before the outbreak of war, when he at once sought his country's service. For four years he was a member of the local company of Territorials, and whilst in London he joined the medical unit of the London University O.T.C. The Commanding Officer of the latter recommended him for immediate commissioned rank, but he enlisted as a private in his county's regiment, and was quickly promoted to a second lieutenancy October 3rd 1914. He went to the Front in March, 1915, and had served with his regiment until the time of his death. As a youth he was assistant scoutmaster of the 1st Tewksbury Troop of the Boy Scouts."
(The Guys Hospital Gazette, September 23rd, 1916)
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www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/593728/MOORE,%20THOMA... T. H. Moore
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1646488/NEALE,%20F F. Neale
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1765631/NEW,%20THOMAS T. New
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/358319/NEWMAN,%20C%20J C. Newman ?
T. J. Osborne
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/808021/PAPPS,%20AUSTI... A. C. Papps
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/689725/PARKER,%20WILLIAM W. J. M. Parker ?
J. J. Parnell
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/808357/PARROTT,%20THOMAS T. Parrott
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/623692/PARSONS,%20JOHN J. Parsons
F. Perkins
W.W. Pitman
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1560779/PRESTON,%20HA... H. Preston ?
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1619711/PRICE,%20FRAN... F. T. Price
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1481866/PRICE,%20WALT... W. A. Price
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/274356/PRICE,%20WILLI... W. H. Price
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/829856/PRIESTLEY,%20D... D. L. Priestley
S. N. Priestley
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/687239/PROSSER,%20WIL... W. J. Prosser ? WG or WJ?
A. C. Purser
F. T. Raggatt
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1644033/REYNOLDS,%20A... A.E. Reynolds
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/357762/RICE,%20CHARLE... C.W.M. Rice
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1767562/RICE,%20ERNEST E. Rice
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1551927/ROBERTS,%20WI... W. Roberts
A.H. Rowley
H.E. Rowley
H.G. Rowley
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/536804/SALLIS,%20ALFR... A.C. Sallis
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/328632/SALLIS,%20ARTH... A.F. Sallis
A.J. Sallis
C. Sandford
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08.09.16 Abbeville (died of wounds)
1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt
family memorial in Tewkesbury cemetery
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W. Sheldon
J.A. Simms
T. Simmons
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/102094/SIMONS,%20CHARLES C. Simons
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01.02.16 Tewkesbury
HMS Vivid
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/399862/SIRCOMBE,%20AL... A.E. Sircombe
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4027220/SMITH,%20ALBERT
A. Smith
H.G. Stubbs
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/244762/SWEET,%20RICHA... R.B. Sweet
A.G. Taylor
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23.08.18 Harbonnieres
32nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Family memorial in Tewkesbury cemetery
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Pte R/258858 Frederick William Taylor
11.04.17 Tewkesbury
Army Service Corps
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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G.H.Taylor
R.J.W.Taylor
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Pte 2096 Harry Sidney Thompson
04.10.20 Tewkesbury
Depot, Gloucestershire Regt
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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J.W. Timms
L. Tysoe
G. Turberville
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Pte 18270 Thomas Charles Underwood
25.03.15 Tewkesbury
13th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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C.W. Wagstaff
J. Wagstaff
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/322798/WALKER,%20JOHN J. Walker
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/161247/WALLACE,%20ART... A.W. Wallace
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2148833/WARNER,%20HOWARD
H. Warner
H.J. Waylen
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3057446/WILKINSON,%20... A.C. Wilkinson
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/507104/WILKINSON,%20F... F. Wilkinson
B. Williams
E. Williams
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2970137/WILLIAMS,%20R... R. Williams
T. Williams
C. Wise
A. Woodhull
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Pte 16440 Frederick J. Woolcott
25.08.20 Tewkesbury
1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
transferred to (385768) Labour Corps
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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Photos:
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Not on the war memorial - but check
16.03.19 Tewkesbury
Devonshire Regiment
transferred to (135062) Labour Corps
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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10.03.20 Tewkesbury
17th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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Pte 108664 Albert J. E. Parsons
13.08.19 Tewkesbury
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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Worker 11334 Kathleen Rose Sollis
20.03.18 Tewkesbury
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
CWGC headstone in Tewkesbury cemetery
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South chancel window depicting Christ's call to the fishermen by Roger Fifield, 1985.
St Catherine's church dominates the centre of Burbage, particularly its tapering west steeple which is such a landmark of this attractive village. At first glance it appears to be a substantial medieval parish church, but most of what we see today is actually the result of a major rebuilding in 1842 by architect M. Habershon.
There are parts of the medieval building still preserved but they are difficult to detect as the rebuilt church has weathered enough to appear more ancient than it is. The tower is largely still the 14th century one, and the chancel arch within is another reminder of the old building (replete with quirky head carvings on its capitals). Most of the rest is early Victorian, aside from the large extension recently added to the north side of the church, albeit in a sympathetic style which works well as a continuation of the space within.
The interior is light and uncommonly broad owing to the aforementioned extension off the north aisle which adds so much to the internal space. The chancel is fairly small by comparison with the spacious nave and accessed through the arch with its amusing carvings. The old font remains and there is an incised alabaster slab of the Elizabethan period in the south aisle. The south door is attractively carved and dates from 1633. There is some Victorian glass in the south aisle and east end and a more recent window in the chancel.
The church is normally locked outside of services aside from certain weekdays when there are coffee mornings. I was lucky enough to check as a midweek morning service had finished and was thus able to look around inside properly for the first time (despite being familiar with the exterior for so many years thanks to the view of it from a friend's window nearby).
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The Swiftwater Covered Bridge is located in southeastern Bath, carrying Porter Road over the wild Ammonoosuc River just north of New Hampshire Route 112. The 174-foot (53 m) long bridge, the fourth on the site, was built in 1849; the first two bridges, dating back to 1810, were washed away by floods. It may have been built under the auspices of Joseph Fifield and John Carbee, town officials responsible for highways and bridges at the time. The bridge is said to have survived the use of explosives to clear logjams on the river. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
This gem photo is from Hester Ann Ellingwood Fifield (1820-1895)'s Photo Album.
www.flickr.com/photos/30484128@N03/6050449493/
The back of the card is blank.
Gram Fifield, and her husband, Edward, were foster parents for my Great-grandmother Rose Ella Andrews after her father died in the Civil War and her mother died soon after. My maternal grandparents saw I was interested in old photos and gave me Gram Fifield's album.
In the 1960s, when I got this album, my mother told me that the Serious Young Woman possibly had been named Ellen Wood.
Fifield Furniture, 500 East Coolbaugh Street, Red Oak, Iowa. This building was originally a National Guard Armory. Built in 1896 at a cost of $6,000, the original building was only one story high. In 1905, Pratt and Pratt, a Red Oak Contractor, used screw jacks and blocks to raise the entire roof, and a second floor was added. The building was used as a theatre and civic meeting house in addition to the headquarters for Iowa National Guard, Company M. The National Guard eventually moved elsewhere and the building became a furniture store in 1960s. Fifield Furniture is now permanently closed.
Taken from Looroll and then cropped for dual-monitor usage.
Artist: Mike Fifield
Website: www.cognitivedistortion.com
e-mail: fifield_m@yahoo.com
Thanks Mike!
L to R: H.F. Fifield, Engineer Maintenance of Way; McCauley, Freight Traffic Dept; H.C. Aherne B&M Transportation Co.; (kneeling) Richard Jackson, Law Dept; (F.J.?) McNulty, Purchasing Dept; (R.H.?) Harris, Mystic Terminal Co.; R.F. Cowan, Freight Traffic Dept; S.G. Phillips, Chief Engineer; Unidentified, Accounting Dept; Unidentified; H. Alpert, Vice President and General Counsel; (Kenneth D.?) Beers, Freight Dept; Patrick B. McGinnis, President; W.F. Wilson, Vice President and General Manager., North Station Office Dept; I. Fox, Signal Engineer; A.B. Virkler Legate, Executive Assistant to President; (head showing) unidentified; Unidentified, Signal Dept; P.J. Mullaney, Vice President, Traffic; Maynard Bullis, Clerk of Corporation; Carl Crosby, consultant to Mystic Terminal Co.; Gus Theriault, Accounting. Dept.
Digital image made from photograph in Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society Archives. Cat. No. 1978.0.115. Gift of W.F. Wilson. Copyright Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. Learn more about the B&MRRHS at www.bmrrhs.org. Photo 1409
This photograph was in an unmarked album of 150 photos. Only five photographs were dated—three copies of the same image of Janice Dawe in a sled from 3 April 1920 (she would have been two weeks shy of one year old,) one from Bear Brook New Hampshire dated March 1922, and the last from Northwood New Hampshire on 22 May 1922. Excepting the 1920 picture, the images all appear to be from around 1922 and are centered on the Stuart Guy Fifield family.
Hannah Tyler Frost (1843-1882), Mahala Frost (1864-1933), Sumner F. Frost (Born: 1841 Albany, Oxford County, Maine. Sumner spent six years seeing the world as a sailor. Later he served in F Company, New Hampshire 14th Infantry, in the Civil War. Sumner died May 14,1905 and is buried in: West Riverside Cemetery in Milan, New Hampshire. My wife and I visited his grave not too long ago.
The photo is from the album of Gram Fifield (Hester Ellingwood Fifield,1820-1895, Dummer, Coos County, New Hampshire. Hester and her husband, Edward, adopted Sumner and his sister Alvina (my g-g-grandmother) after their father died. Later Gram Fifield raised Alvina's children too after Alvina's husband died in the Civil War and Alvina died soon after.
After the Civil War Sumner listed his trade as "peddler" on the United States Census.
"...peddlers were itinerant merchants who roamed the country when its interior markets were still underdeveloped and extremely diffuse. Beginning in the colonial period, such men—frequently of New England origin—traveled from farm to farm with their trunks strapped on their backs or, as roads improved, in wagons. Trunk peddlers who sold smaller items like combs, pins, cheap jewelry, knives and woodenware, knitted goods, and books...."
-- Answers.Com
Paint progress on "The Beast" - ALIEN 79 -1:18 scale. Closed mouth "lipped" version - Group shots containing the transparent dome. I painted the dome as it would be a living part of the organism, not just a cool see through cover...looking organic, not just transparent. It's living material so you'd think it would have veining, textures, and various waves of color throughout the fleshy dome. Used swirls of clear gloss mixed with earth toned colors inside the dome to give some dimension to the vacuum formed piece. Pretty cool effects when the light moves through it. The rest of the head sculpt used an oily black as a base and additional earth tones and grays- this will play through the rest of the body and the rest of the head sculpts. #alien #bigchap #nostromo #alien79 #painting #giger
This tintype is from Hester Ann Ellingwood Fifield (1820-1895)'s Photo Album.
Another photo of perhaps the same child from the same photo album:
www.flickr.com/photos/30484128@N03/6862642922/in/photostream
The back of the card is blank. There is no Civil War tax stamp, as had been required from 1864 to 1866, .
Gram Fifield, and her husband, Edward, were foster parents for my Great-grandmother Rose Ella Andrews after her father died in the Civil War and her mother died soon after. My maternal grandparents saw I was interested in old photos and gave me Gram Fifield's album in the 1960s,
Happy 13th!
Last Friday, the Environmental Horticulture Department had their annual Poinsettia Show and Sale. Several greenhouses were filled to the brim with all varieties of cultivars.
Some of us look forward all year to this event. The event is billed as the largest Poinsettia show in the US.
The train from Wausau was late getting in to Prentice so the Prentice-Ashland train didn't get on the road until 3:00 PM and only got as far north as Fifield. The wood yard there was quite busy and appeared to be in need of a switch.
A nice mix of swing,Americana, country and a dash of bluegrass
Una mezcla de swing, americana y country con una pizca de bluegrass
Janice Dawe This photograph was in an unmarked album of 54 photos. None were dated but a rough estimate of Janice Dawe’s age seems to be four or five years old. This would date the photographs to around 1924. The images all appear to be centered on the Stuart Guy Fifield family.
Janice Dawe
This photograph was in an unmarked album of 54 photos. None were dated but a rough estimate of Janice Dawe’s age seems to be four or five years old. This would date the photographs to around 1924. The images all appear to be centered on the Stuart Guy Fifield family.
Out of the Archives: In June 1923, before licenses were even required for all drivers, Board of Water Supply employees operating City-owned vehicles had these ID photos taken for their chauffeur’s license applications. Photographing 3 or 4 people at a time must have economized on time, film, and printing supplies while leaving us some interesting portraits.
Licenses for all drivers were not required in New York State until 1924.
Left to right: Assistant Engineer Frederick J. Rehn, Assistant Engineer Gilbert H. Fifield, and Division Engineer William B. Hunter. (Image ID: p011052)