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Former seat of the Duke of Buccleuch, begun in 1702 by architect James Smith, incorporating part of the old Dalkeith Castle. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Queen Victoria and George IV have all stayed here.
I waited over four years for this shot. It's an improvement on the previous effort but it's still not right. I should have left some space between the girl on the left and the edge of the frame. Ah well, the wait goes on.
Las galerías McLellan son un espacio de exposiciones en la ciudad de Glasgow , Escocia , están situadas detrás de una fachada de tiendas en la calle de Sauchiehall .
Las galerías fueron construidas en 1855-6,diseñadas por el arquitecto James Smith y financiadas por Archibald McLellan (1795-1854), constructor de carruajes, concejal y mecenas de las artes.
There's not really all that much growing in the windy - and I mean: gales - dunes of Essaouira on the Atlantic seaboard of Morocco just opposite Mogador. A lot of scrub, of course, populated by large herds of goats and various kinds of reptilian life like turtles and lizards. And curiously a couple of colorful naturalised plants originally from Southern Africa and South America. The dunes are just now blazingly alive with the vivid yellows of Carpobrotus edulis, Hottentot Fig. Remarkably, the red variety acinaciformis is much less in evidence. Lots of solitary bees browsing for food in edulis!
Then there's a sizable population of Tree Tobacco or Wild Tobacco, Nicotiana glauca. It's quite amazing how the long tubular flowers 'hold on' to their branches in the fierce winds. And just look at the beautifully green pistils!
I don't know when our Nicotiana was first prevalent on these coasts. But it was introduced to Europe in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden where it flowered in 1828. Seed had been sent over to his father Mr James Smith (†1848), nursery man at Monkswood Grove, Ayrshire, by Robert Smith (on a collecting trip in North America some years later he got lost and was never heard from again...). Smith had sent it on to Europe from Buenos Aires. The elder Smith supplied that seed to Robert Graham (1786-1845), botany professor at Edinburgh. I imagine introduction to Northern Africa must have been by (a) different way(s)...
PS Internet is still painfully slow and intermittent here... Please bear with me!
Record no: D-10 00447
Creator: Octavius Thompson (1825-1910)
Title of publication: Toronto in the camera; a series of photographic views of the principal buildings in the city of Toronto.
Imprint: Toronto: O. Thompson, 1868.
Image description: Image depicts the Bond Street Congregational Church, located on the north-east corner of Bond and Crookshank Streets, which was built in 1863 and designed by Mr. James Smith.
Extent: 105 x 90 mm
Format: Photograph
Rights info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Alleyway next to the James Smith building. Wellington. New Zealand.
There are not many people around in these alcoves at Christmas time. If I were to murder a man I would murder him here. Are you sure this is the right word, alcoves?
Probably by James Smith (of Kenmore), 1843 (see Notes). 2-stage spired tower and rectangular-plan church hall with later (1857) smaller hall by Robert Baldie, in simple Tudor gothic. Chlorite-slate rubble with stone cills, and squared rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. Hoodmoulds, voussoirs and 2-stage diagonal buttresses. Tower: 1st stage with hoodmoulded panelled timber door with shaped plate glass fanlight and steep pediment to W, paired blocked lights to S and large timber-louvered opening to each face above. Reduced 2nd stage with clock to each face and splayed angles, band course above giving way to pedimented cornice and ribbed lead spire with decorative cast-iron weathervane.
Formerly part of the Breadalbane (originally Aberfeldy) Free Church, then used as the church hall. Probably designed by James Smith of Kenmore, the foundation stone was laid by Lord Breadalbane on 13th November, 1843. Attribution to Peter Skeen by Buildings of Scotland.
Record no: D-10 00447
Creator: Octavius Thompson (1825-1910)
Title of publication: Toronto in the camera; a series of photographic views of the principal buildings in the city of Toronto.
Imprint: Toronto: O. Thompson, 1868.
Image description: Image depicts the Wesleyan Methodist Church, located on Elm Street, which was built in 1862 and designed by Mr. James Smith.
Extent: 105 x 85 mm
Format: Photograph
Rights info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
James is ready for @underoathband's Rebirth tonight at @jannuslive, are you? #UØ #underoath #uorebirth #jamessmith #canon1dx #concert @canonusa #music
Built in 1702, and the former seat of the Duke of Buccleuch, the Palace has been leased to the University of Wisconsin for its Study Abroad Programme since 1985.
Grant Brandell and James Smith of Underoath perform on March 16, 2016 at Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida. #underoath #UØ #UORebirth #stpetersburg #stpete #jannuslive #music #concert #jamessmith #grantbrandell
1708-10, possibly James Smith. T-plan church with 4-stage tower. White-painted harling with ashlar margins, chamfered at arrises.
TOWER: advanced from centre of symmetrical, 7-bay SW elevation. Round-arched door at centre with oculus over; louvred opening to each stage above. Slated polygonal spire with decorative gilded weathervane.
NE elevation gabled with round-arched window above 2-leaf door with fanlight.
NE JAMB: gabled, 2-storey jamb projecting from centre with coped apex stack. Windows to each floor by re-entrant angles at each side; further 1st floor window and doorway in lugged, bolection moulded and corniced doorpiece to SE return; flight of stone steps with wrought-iron railings to architraved door. Sash and case windows with small-pane glazing patterns, Gothic pattern to pointed arch windows. Plain raised skews; NE gable steeply pitched.
The T-plan arrangement for 18th century churches, with central tower, stemmed from the example of the Tron Kirk, Edinburgh.
A contemporary parallel to Yester occurred nearby at Carrington, Midlothian. Perhaps the most famous figures connected with the church were James Witherspoon (minister from 1720) and his son, John Witherspoon who became President of Princeton College, New Jersey, and was the only minister to sign the American Declaration of Independence. The former's fine table-slab gravestone is one of many notable 18th century tombstones in the graveyard. Hinge-pins of former shutters remain flanking windows on SW elevation. The possibility of the involvement of James Smith in the design of the church has been discussed, prompted by his contemporary work at Yester House.
Taken from the deck of the MV Isle Of Mull en-route to Craignure from Oban.
The early morning light made the lighthouse really stand out at the prominentary of the island.
Lismore is situated on Eilean Musdile in the Firth of Lorne at the entrance to Loch Linnhe. This is separated from Lismore island by a Sound ¼ miles broad.
On 13 January 1830 the Commissioners purchased, from Charles Campbell Esq of Combie, the small island of Mansedale, lying off the south west point of Lismore, for the sum of £500. The Island extends to approximately ten acres.
James Smith of Inverness was the contractor responsible for building Lismore at the price of £4,260. The light was first exhibited in October 1833 and was fixed white. The report at the time stated the light will doubtless be of great service to numerous vessels which frequent the sounds of Islay, Luing and Mull. It also opened up the firth of Lorne and Loch Linnhe for the western entrance to the Caledonian Canal.
Mr Robert Selkirk, a lineal descendant of Alexander Selkirk, was the first Principal Lightkeeper at Lismore and had been in the service since 1808. Lismore was a Rock Station relieved fortnightly so that the men (4 in all) had 6 weeks on the rock followed by two weeks ashore with their families. The provisions and other light stores were brought by a boatman permanently attached to the Station who also did reliefs.
In 1910 most of the Boards lights were changed to dioptric but Lismore and Fidra were left as the only remaining purely catoptric lights in the service.
The war years provided extra work for the lightkeepers. In 1940 two lightkeepers at Lismore, under most difficult conditions, rescued two airmen clinging to a piece of wreckage in the sea.
June 1965 saw the biggest change at Lismore when it was converted to Automatic operation at an estimated cost of £10,000. Upwards of eleven tons of building material had to be transport from Oban by the MV FINGAL. The lightkeepers were then withdrawn.
The light is now looked after by Oban Depot personnel.
It should be noted that at some sites the Northern Lighthouse Board have sold some redundant buildings within the lighthouse complex and are not responsible for the maintenance of these building.
Aaron Gillespie of Underoath performing at the Ford Amphitheater as part of the Rockstar Mayhem Tour on July 29, 2008.
GRG26/5/4 Photographic Portraits of South Australian Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses who took part in World War One
Number 2101 SMITH, James
Military Police
Place of birth: Yankalilla
Residence: Goolwa
SRSA ref: GRG/26/5/4/2101
James Smith and Sons umbrella, whip, and stick shop, London.
On our early-June visit to London we were lucky to be able to spend time with our oldest son, Brandon, who was there for a few days following a work visit to England. It is a wonderful thing to meet up with your grown “kids” in such a place — for all the usual reasons, but also because sometimes they have new and different ways of orienting themselves to the local environment. At his suggestion and in his company we visited a number of places that we would not have seen. The James Smith & Sons shop, which I might otherwise have walked past with little notice, was one of them.
I’ll start with the obvious — you don’t find many shops in the US that were established nearly two centuries ago! The fascinating signs on the exterior are not just some kind of marketing — that’s actually what they have looked like for a long time. Inside, this is a classic shopping experience. Beautiful umbrellas, waling sticks, canes, folding stools, and more, at prices from reasonable to astronomical, line the shop. Clerks talk to customers, going into great detail about the products. I came “this close” to buying something “just because,” and now I almost regret that I didn’t.
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Aaron Gillespie of Underoath performing at the Ford Amphitheater as part of the Rockstar Mayhem Tour on July 29, 2008.
Aaron Gillespie of Underoath on the main stage @ Warped 09 - VA Beach 22/07/09
Possibly my favourite drummer in the world! Absolutely insane, he's amazing!
This was the second time this year i've seen Underoath and their set was unbelieveable! Highlight of warped!
Credit: PoppyRC
Diane covered Korn and Alice In Chains with opening acts Underoath and Ho99o9 at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY. See the full coverage here theravensview.net/news-%26-reviews/f/korn-and-alice-in-ch...
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©Diane Woodcheke
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Diane covered Korn and Alice In Chains with opening acts Underoath and Ho99o9 at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY. See the full coverage here theravensview.net/news-%26-reviews/f/korn-and-alice-in-ch...
Please do not use any of Diane’s photos without permission.
©Diane Woodcheke
dwoodcheke@gmail.com
Spencer Chamberlain of Underoath performing at the Ford Amphitheater as part of the Rockstar Mayhem Tour on July 29, 2008.
By James Smith, 1855; dome and shopfronts by Frank Burnet and Boston, 1904. Redeveloped behind the façade (after fire) 1988. Rear building by A B Macdonald 1913-14. Polished ashlar with marble shop front. 3-storey exhibition gallery and department store. 9 x 31 x 10 bays occupying whole block with cupola dome on SE corner and 2-storey, 8-bay addition to Renfrew Street at rear. Main entrance to galleries vestibule and shop with sculpted, segmental pedimented doorpiece (1913-14 with bust of Queen Victoria by John Mossman). Mutule cornice.
The 1st gallery for the McLellan collection 1867, in Corporation Buildings/Galleries (Institute of Fine Art). Badly damaged by fire in 1987. Galleries now closed and relocated to the Kelvingrove Museum.
James Smith collaborated with David and James Hamilton in the development of Exchange Square in Glasgow. He married David’s daughter then formed a partnership with James, followed by another with his assistant John Baird II. He also worked independently designing the Ibrox Parish Church. Smith's professional and private life was shaken by the trial of his daughter for murder. Although she was acquitted, the scandal forced his family to move from their home in Helensburgh to Bridge of Allan in 1858, then to Old Polmont in 1860 where he purchased the house of Polmont Bank (now demolished) and where he died in 1863.
James Smith took these photos on board the USS Kearsarge CVA 33 in 1957-58. They document life on board the Kearsarge and a trip to the Far East.
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
www.james-smith.co.uk/acatalog/history.htm
The world famous James Smith and Sons Umbrella Shop was founded in 1830 and is still owned and run as a family business. For 175 years the company has been making umbrellas, sticks and canes for both ladies and gentlemen and their reputation as the home of the London umbrella is well justified.
The historic and beautiful shop is on New Oxford Street in the heart of London’s West End and is a stunning reminder of the Victorian period. The shop retains the original fittings designed and made by the master craftsman employed by the business and is a work of art in itself.
I like to visit some of many old churches / kirks etc that can be found in many locations across the North East Of Scotland, this one dates back to 1828, it has many war graves in it's cemetery, the grounds are well maintained though the church itself is no longer in use.
I visited on 7th April 2018 as I made my way home I noticed it as I waited for the traffic lights to turn green, instead of heading home I spent 90 minutes or so just looking around the cemetery and the building itself hoping to capture some plaques or items of interest, this album is my archive of the site and the visit I had that day.
Name - Nigg Parish Kirk
Category B Listed Building in Aberdeen
John Smith: Architect of the church1828-9
Events: Church built (1828 to 1829)
Nigg Parish Church is located on the south side of the River Dee on the outskirts of Aberdeen. It is built on the site of an older, medieval church and is surrounded by a large graveyard. The site is now set amongst relatively modern housing and industrial premises.
The church is no longer in use and is boarded up and secured.
Description (exterior)
Nigg Parish Church was built by architect James Smith in a modern Perpendicular Gothic style. The church is rectangular with a square, battlemented tower at the north-west end. It was built with large blocks of coursed granite and has a large slated roof.
The large square tower is centrally placed and attached to the north-west facing gable. The tower has four main stages, denoted by stringcourses. There are slender, stepped buttresses at the corners which are topped by tall gableted pinnacles. The north-west face has a wide, pointed-arch doorway with a pointed-arch window (blocked) above. The other faces have numerous tall, narrow pointed-arch (lancet) openings. The belfry has large, louvered pointed-arch openings on three faces and the tower is topped by a battlemented parapet.
The nave of the church has five bays, each with a large pointed-arch window. The windows have been boarded up and fake window glass and tracery has been painted on to hide the fact the windows have been blocked. There is decorative contrasting stonework around the windows and at the base of the church.
There are stepped buttresses with very tall pinnacles at each corner. The north-west gable has slightly smaller pointed-arch windows on either side of the tower and the rear gable (south-east) has a single large pointed-arch window. This is the only window not blocked, and is protected by a metal mesh. Attached to the rear is a small complex of single-storey extensions, thought to include the vestry, kitchen and toilet. These can be accessed by small doors and are lit by plain rectangular windows. The vestry building has miniature buttresses on the corners.
1951 Private
J.A. SMITH
Norfolk Regiment
4th January 1916 Age 18.
Private SMITH, JAMES ALAN
Service Number:……………1951
Died:………………………..04/01/1916
Aged:……………………….18
Unit:………………………...6th Cyclist Bn.
………………………………Norfolk Regiment
Son of Alfred John Smith, of 21, Cavalry St., St. James, Norwich.
Buried at NORWICH CEMETERY, NORFOLK
Cemetery/memorial reference: 48. 193.
Source: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2803321/SMITH,%20JAME...
Soldiers Died in the Great War, an HMSO publication from the 1920’s, records that Private 1951 James Smith “Died” on the 4th January 1916 while serving on the Home Front with the 6th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. “Died” in SDGW terms means anything other than Killed in Action or Died of Wounds.
He was born and enlisted Norwich. No place of residence is shown.
There is no obvious Medal Index Card held for him at the National Archive. There can be a number of reasons for this, but the most usual is that he did not serve overseas.
Some of his Service Records appear to have survived the incendiary attack during the Blitz on the Warehouse where all the Other Ranks Army Service Records were stored.
James Allan Smith gave his address as 21 Cavalry Street, Norwich, when he attested at Norwich for four years service in the Territorial Force on the 17th March 1915. He had no previous military experience. He signed up for the 6th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment and received service number 1951. On the same day he signed the declaration making him liable for overseas service.
He was stated to be 19 years old and was 5 feet 7 inches tall. He had perfect vision and his physical development was rated “Good”.
His next of kin was his father, Alfred John Smith. of 21 Cavalry Street, Norwich.
His Statement of Services sheet simply notes that he died on the 4th January 1916 from Haemorrhage caused by intestinal injuries. He had not seen any overseas service.
The documentation relating to the Court of Enquiry appears to reference him being in the Machine Gun Section of “D” Company, 2/6th Cyclists Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. They were then stationed at Bridlington. Yorkshire.
He was initially admitted to Hospital on the 30th December 1915, suffering from crushed internal abdominal organs and lacerated wound of left eyebrow. The wound was serious in nature and the soldier claimed it was suffered in performance of his military duty at the time.
The Court of Enquiry sat on the 31st December 1915.
President was Captain W. Bunn, while members were Lieut. A.W.T. Bagge and 2/Lieut. A.E. Huggins.
Evidence of No. 1659 L/Corpl Fickling, F. W., 2/6th Cyclist Battn. Norfolk Regt.
On Thursday 30/12/15 at about 12.20 pm, I was driving a motor-lorry No.24 in 2nd line transport in rear of Column of detachment 2/6 Cyclists Battn Norfolk Regt. marching from Carnaby to Bridlington. At this time I was on Prospect St. Bridlington just before turn up Victoria Road. The Car in front of me was about 20yds distant + had turned the corner, two men of the column were cycling between my car + car in front of me. These two men were in file about 6 to 8 yds in front of me; just as I turned the corner one of these men skidded + fell from his cycle ??? in front of me. I at one applied all brakes + threw out my clutch, but the impetus of the car + the greasy state of the road prevented me from stopping in time to avoid a collision. My speed on the march was about 8 to 10 mph. I had slackened this to about 6 to 7 mph in order to go round the corner. I felt my off front wheel go over the man. I do not know whether my back wheel hit him, as I did not feel anything. As soon as I had stopped my car I got out + found the man just behind my back off wheel. I could see his face was bleeding; he was lying in the road and appeared concussed. I did not know who the man was. The road was particularly greasy at that corner + my lorry was heavily loaded.
Evidence of Lieut. H.S. Bloomfield 2/6 Cyclists Battn.
On Thursday 30/12/15 I was O/C 2nd line Transport ???Guard to the column 2/6 Cyclists Battn Norfolk Regt marching from Carnaby to Bridlington. I ordered No.1951 Pte Smith A.J. to ride between 1st + 2nd Lorry Second line Transport. The Second Lorry was driven by No.1659 L/Corpl Fickling F.W. The 2nd line transport passed the corner (Prospect St/Victoria Road Bridlington) at about 12.20 pm. At about 11 am I had seen a cyclist thrown from his cycle by skidding near the same corner. The road was very greasy indeed.
Evidence of No.702 C.Q.M.S. Mindham E.W. 2/6 Cyclists Battn. Norfolk Regt.
On Thurday 30/12/15 I was riding on the lorry driven by No.1659 L/Corpl Fickling F.W. by order of Captain F.G. Thorne 2/6 Cyclists Bn Norfolk Regt. I was seated next to the driver. The lorry in front of us was about 40 yards distant. Two men of the column were cycling in file about 5/6 yds in front of the car I was in. At about 12.30 pm we were on Prospect Street, Bridlington, just before the turning into Victoria Rd. I saw the right hand man of the file cycling in front of me thrown from his cycle by skidding at this corner. I ?? he applied his brake just before skidding. The man was thrown just in front of the car. I saw the driver immediately apply his brakes. I felt the off front wheel go over the man. As soon as the car stopped I got out. The man was lying just behind the off back wheel; I formed the opinion that this wheel must have gone over him. though I had not felt it do so. I then noticed the man’s cycle had been thrown to the right of the road by the skid & that it was practically uninjured. The column had been moving at about 9mph. The car I was in turned the corner at about 4 mph. The road was particularly greasy at that corner.
Evidence of No 1398 L/Corpl Doy A.K. 2/6 Cyclists Battn Norfolk Regt.
On Thursday 30/12/15 at about 12.20 pm I was standing at the corner of Victoria Road + Prophet Street Bridlington just by Dr Godfrey’s house. I had just skidded on my motor cycle. The roads were very greasy. Whilst standing there I saw a detachment of 2/6 Cyclist Battn Norfolk Regt. come round that corner frpm the direction of the station at about 5 mph. I saw one man thrown from his cycle by skidding just in front of a lorry. I saw both off wheels go over the man. His cycle was thrown to the right clear of the lorry. The lorry stopped immediately it had run over the man. I saw the driver get out + I saw that it was No. 1659 L/Corpl Fickling F. I was attending to my motorcycle and happened to look up just before the accident.
Evidence of No. 1877 Pte Hunn E. 2/6 Cyclists Battn, Norfolk Regt.
On Thursday 30/12/15 at about 12.15 pm I was cycling from Carnaby to Bridlington with No. 1951 Pte Smith A.J. We were a file in front of lorry driven by No. 1659 L.Corpl Fickling F W. by order of Lieut. H.S. Bloomfield 2/6 Cyclists Battn Norf. Regt. At this time we reached the corner Prospect St – Victoria Road Bridlington. I went round the corner about 7 yds in front of the car. I was the inner man of the file. Pte Smith the outer man, & in rounding the corner he dropped about 4 yards to the rear. I heard his cycle fall. I looked around + saw the off front wheel of the car pass over him; his cycle was thrown to the right clear of the car. I do not know whether the back wheel went over him, as I could not see. C.Q.M.S. Mindham who was on the car ordered me to go ahead + fetch the doctor. I saw no more.
Commanding Officer 2/6 Norfolk Regt.
I am of the opinion that this accident was in no way due to any fault of the man and that it occurred on duty. I have applied to the O. Dept. for some means of preventing the lorries from skidding and pointed out that without it an accident was inevitable. No notice however was taken of this application.
Bridlington 1/1/16.
Private Smith died at the LLoyds Hospital, Bridlington on the 4th January 1916.
The hospital notes add that he died of “Internal Haemorrhage the result of injury to internal organs by being run over by a motor transport which he was guarding during a Flying Column Movement on Dec. 30/15 about 1 pm. The deceased was riding a Bicyle in front of the Transport + whilst turning a corner slowed up to avoid skidding on a greasy surface - The bicycle eventually did skid thereby practically throwing the deceased under the wheels of the Transport which at the time was travelling at about 4 miles per hour. An Inquest was held + the jury brought in a verdict to the effect that the deceased was accidentally killed + that no blame was to be attached to the driver.”
His personal affects were to be forwarded to Mr. Alfred J. Smith, 21 Cavalry Street, Norwich.
With the War over and the need to issue medals and war gratuities, the Army sent out form W.5080 to the notified next of kin, asking for details of near relatives who were still alive. The form follows the order of precedence for inheritance as it then applied. Father Alfred completed the form on the 2nd June 1920 and had it witnessed by the Clerk in Holy Orders, St James, Norwich.
It first of all confirms there was no wife or children.
Father of the Soldier: Alfred Smith, 21 Cavalry Street, Norwich.
Mother of the Soldier: Deceased.
Brothers of the Soldier : Full Blood.
Charles Smith, aged 35, Thunder Lane, Thorpe.
Alfred Smith, aged 30, Millers Lane, Catton
George Smith, aged 19, H.M.S. Royal Oak.
Brothers of the Soldier : Half Blood = None.
Sisters of the Soldier : Full Blood.
Ellen Smith, aged ???, ??? St, Norwich
Elizabeth Wood, aged 3?, ???. Lakenham
?????? ???? aged 36, ????????
Sarah ?????, aged 34, Wensun Street, Norwich.
Sisters of the Soldier : Half Blood.
????? ?????? aged 30, Botolph St., Norwich.
Edith ?????? aged 28, 21 Cavalry Street, Norwich
Laura Visey, aged 26, Elham, Kent.
No match on Picture Norfolk, the County Image Archive.
No obvious Soldiers Will for this man.
1897 - Birth…………………….
The birth of a James Alan Smith, mothers’ maiden name Precious, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Norwich District of Norfolk in the April to June quarter, (Q2), of 1897.
Possible siblings – children registered in the Norwich District with surname Smith, mothers’ maiden Precious – include:-
Q3 1881 Emma Jane Smith
Q4 1885 Sarah Ann M. Smith
Q4 1887 Gertrude Susannah
Q2 1892 Edith Mary Smith
Q4 1894 Laura May Smith
Q1 1901 George William Smith
The baptism of a James Alan Smith, born March 12th 1897, took place at St James with Pockthorpe, Norwich on the 28th April 1897. Parents were Alfred John, a Sawyer, and Emma. The family were then living at 70 Mousehold Street, Norwich.
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DR1H-NJ?i=434&am...
Then, as now, you had 42 days after the event to register the birth without facing prosecution and a fine. Thus the date of birth in the baptismal records and the period of registration in the civil record are not incompatible.
1901 Census of England and Wales
The 4 year old James, born Norwich, was recorded living at 21 Cavalry Street, Norwich. This was the household of his parents Alfred J., (aged 47, a Wood Sawyer, born New Lakenham, Norfolk) and Emma, (aged 44, a Chocolate Maker, born New Lakenham, Norfolk). As well as James their other children living with them are:-
Ellen F……aged 24…born New Lakenham…Starch Packer
Elizabeth…aged 22….born New Lakenham
Emma…….aged 19….born New Lakenham…Chocolate Maker
Alice……...aged 17….born New Lakenham…Yarn spinner
Sarah……..aged 15…..born New Lakenham….Starch Packer
Gertrude….aged 13…..born New Lakenham
Sophia……aged 10…..born New Lakenham
Edith……..aged 9…….born Norwich
Laura…….aged 6……..born Norwich
George…aged 3 months..born Norwich
It may be a coincidence but the death of a 52 year old Emma Smith was recorded in the Norwich District in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1908.
1911 Census of England and Wales
The Smith family were still living at 21 Cavalry Street, in the Parish of St James, Norwich, however father Alfred John, (56, a Wood Sawyer), is now described as a widower. He states he was married 34 years and the marriage produced 11 children, all then still alive. Still single and living with him are Alfred, (21, a Brewers Labourer), Edith, (19, Starch Packer), James, (14), and George, (10). All the family members are shown as born Norwich.
Pre-war…………………………………
The database Railwaymen Died in the Great War, (British Army) held at the National Railway Museium records that he joined the Great Eastern Railway Company in February 1912 as a Parcels Van Lad.
2/6th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment………….
Formed in Bridlington in October 1914 as a Second Line Battalion. Remained in UK.
www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-brit...
On the day…………………………………
As noted in his service record, James died in hospital at Bridlington on the 4th January 1916 from injuries suffered on the 30th December 1915 when he fell from his bike under the wheels of a lorry.
The edition of the Great Eastern Railway Magazine for May 1916 noted his death. It records him as the son of Alfred John Smith of 21 Cavalry St, St James, Norwich who enlisted March 1915 and who was killed accidentally at Bridlington.
The edition of the Eastern Daily Press dated Wednesday, January 13, 1916 has a picture of a Private James White, a Norwich man who is said to have been fatally injured in an accident at Bridlington. The soldier shown has a Norfolk Regiment cap badge. I have no note of a report on the accident in that days newspaper involving James White. There is no obvious James White in either the CWGC database or SDGW. So possibly this is actually a picture of James Alan Smith.
By James Smith (of Leadbetter & Smith), 1863. A near-symmetrical 15-bay Baronial building composed of a central tower, flanked by 3-storey bays and by 2-storey bays with box dormers. Gabled 2-storey projection to rear. Squared, snecked and stugged sandstone with some ashlar dressings. Crowstepped gables and dormerheads present throughout.
The former Magdalene Asylum. The inmates, who were easily recognised by their common dress and shaven heads, were regularly subjected to abuse if they ventured beyond its walls. The original Asylum, established in 1797 was situated in the Canongate. More recently used by the social work department it currently lies unoccupied.