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53 Kirkdale (see previous message)

Here's another picture of a house on Kirkdale, no. 53 to be precise. My great grandparents lived here in the 1920s: Henry Joseph Huntley was an insurance broker, hence the sign.
I would be grateful if anyone could tell me whether this house is still there - unlikely but you never know ...

You may be interested in this cutting about the wedding of my maternal grandparents Arthur Tripp and Mary Huntley in August 1925

This picture of my grandfather A. Tripp was probably taken in Coombe Road, as the family lived there (late 1920s), and I was wondering if that's a church or church hall behind.

Here's the photo!

Here is a picture of my mother as a baby with my grandmother - as they lived at the time (c. 1928) in Coombe Road, I expect that the picture was taken by their house.

I think this picture probably shows the house on the corner of Taylor's Lane called "The Wells" - it's a bit different to the one posted further up this thread showing something to the left. The milkcart in this picture is that of my grandfather A.H. Tripp (or possibly his father L. Tripp)...

After posting my last message here, I saw that only businesses with at least 100 employees were of interest - and the thermometer company only had a few workers back then (it had a lot more later but was no longer in Sydenham, even though my grandfather lived there in Longton Ave. until his death in...

Just a few corrections to my last message - according to my mother, Lowing Tripp was living on the left-hand side of the cottage called "The Wells" and a Mrs Morgan lived on the right (presumably in the 30s). The sign may therefore be at the end of the wrong garden. On the 1911 census Lowi...

Small correction to my last message - the service was in the church hall (evensong) as St Philip's had suffered damage earlier.

My father was playing the organ in St Philip's church at the time of the attack - some of the windows were blown out but he just carried on playing!

Here's the postcard

Here's a postcard that I haven't found in Steve Grindlay's album!
It was posted in 1908.

In response to that earlier message about the picture showing "The Wells" and "Wells Cottage", I am grateful for the posting of the original 1930(?) newspaper picture, which is more accurate than the 1970s copy. It clearly shows a wider Taylor's Lane. My mother had always said th...

My father was living at 63 Longton Avenue at the start of the war (he was 17) and that house was bombed on 11 Sept 1940 (the upstairs of the house was destroyed but it was later rebuilt). My father was in the cellar at the time. His parents later rented no. 85 until 1942/3 when they bought no. 59 (m...

This may be only of minor interest, but my grandfather's thermometer business was run for a few years, from 1927 onwards, in a workshop over some stables behind the "Cottage of Content" pub in Wells (Park) Road. The business, still trading in Cumbria as S. Brannan & Sons, was started b...

Here is an old postcard of Wells Park - late 30s.

The people in the picture, far left, happen to be my mother Muriel Tripp as a girl, with her grandfather Lowing Tripp, mentioned earlier in this thread.

I thought it would be of interest to post this picture. My Tripp grandparents actually lived in Prospect Road and Coombe Rd, whilst my great grandfather, Lowing Tripp, mentioned elsewhere, lived on Wells Road, and the house at 2 Taylor's Lane was inhabited by Lowing's parents-in-law, William and Cha...

The Tripps mentioned in a previous message were my grandparents. My grandfather Arthur Tripp was killed in a tragic accident in 1942 (knocked over by his horse) and my grandmother must have moved away after the war.