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Post by Admin on May 18, 2009 20:21:58 GMT
I really must thank Mary and Cougarman for their wonderful additions to the archive. Mary for sending me lots of pictures of the Long Lee area which I have NEVER seen before..................... AND Cougarman for his wonderful pictures of our old school Highfield and lots of other wonderful ephemera.......... Thank you both so much. Jan  |
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maryb
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Post by maryb on May 19, 2009 10:27:14 GMT
Hi Jan, glad you got them ok.They are brilliant are'nt they.I really thought you might have already had them.
I was wondering how old the omnibus was.The school one looks about early 1940's going on there clothes.
I have been trying to get info on J Haigh who took them.
In 1901 there was a J Haigh on High Spring road Long Lee born 1866 and he had a son J Haigh born 1900.
The elder one died I think 1939 and at one piont either he or a relative must have owned the shop in the photo in Long Lee Lane.
Best Wishes Mary.
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2009 10:32:23 GMT
They are absolutely brilliant......no I had not seen any of them before, just shows what is lurking that we do not know about..............
I am so pleased to have received them from you.......
Thanks for your continual support.
Jan x
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Post by Dalesman on May 20, 2009 6:56:13 GMT
As a friend of mine once very truly observed, "House clearances are the enemy of history" and so if any of us has anything, however seemingly trivial to us, that may be of interest to others it should be out there in the public domain for them to enjoy.
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Post by Andy Wade on May 20, 2009 7:17:10 GMT
As a friend of mine once very truly observed, "House clearances are the enemy of history" and so if any of us has anything, however seemingly trivial to us, that may be of interest to others it should be out there in the public domain for them to enjoy. That makes me wonder if anyone has written to any of these house clearance companies to ask if they would contact us to take away boxes of 'rubbish' and emphemara. I've seen these at cheap auctions where they will sell a box of 'junk' for a quid and someone then rummages through it for car boot sale items and chucks the rest. Often they don't sell and will end up in the bin. Stewart Wright (whom I bumped into in Keighley library), once told me that he has loads of WW1 soldier's picture cards that a lady was chucking out into a skip! I think it's how he got started on the whole history trail with his research. |
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Post by Dalesman on May 20, 2009 10:28:32 GMT
Might be worth circulating local clearance companies for any local history ephemera they might come across. Mind you they might want paying for it!
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Post by Admin on May 21, 2009 11:22:17 GMT
I actually buy some ephemera from E Bay, which is sold on behalf of a local clearance company....................
Might not be a bad idea though -
Thanks all.
Jan
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