DESERTERS

 Taken from the Derby Mercury 4 December 1778. A guinea reward on top of any standard reward for informing on these two men must have seemed a great temptation to many people. Wonder if they were caught!

PARADISE SQUARE

Sounds like a good time was had by all in May 1935 at this party on Newbridge St, renamed 'Paradise Square' for the occasion.

Newbridge Street no longer looks the same but it still runs alongside Whittington Hill.

Many families lived on this street and the Loomes family was one of them. Robert Loomes fought in WW1 and came home injured and lived on Newbridge Street for many years whilst his brother Christopher , who was awarded the DCM, was killed later in the war but his widow continued to live on Newbridge Street.

GAMESTERS

 Found this piece in the Derbyshire Courier 18 May 1912. Sad thing is by 1918 two of these lads had died in WW1. Arthur Booth and George Barker (16 and 15 respectively in 1912). Really makes you think they were just 'boys'!

Remembrance Day 2020

With Remembrance Day nearly here I thought it would be a nice idea to repost all of the pictures I have of the men from Old Whittington and Brushes War memorials who died in WW1, also remembering the men of Whittington who gave their lives in WW2 and other conflicts.

Their stories can be read at https://oldwhittingtonops.com/the-fallen-of-old-whittington-1914-1918/

 

Sale of  the  White Horse Inn

I found this piece from Sheffield Daily Telegraph 4th June 1892, especially interesting as my great grandfather Harry Parker was landlord of the White Horse Inn in 1892, in fact my grandfather Percy Parker was born there just a couple of weeks after this advert was placed.

The blacksmith shop was run by great grandfathers brother in law Walter Herbert Booth.

Would be interesting to find out who bought the property.

The picture below is a few years after my great grandfather lived there.

I couldn't resist this piece from Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald 9 June 1877. I am not sure who "A Listener" was but they certainly did not like the musical offerings of some people at the Chapel!

WHITTINGTON WEDDING 1897

Found this in the Derbyshire Times Chesterfield Herald 24 April 1897, and was amazed at the amount of detail in the description of the wedding.