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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 32 of 42 Sun 21st Jul 2019 5:56pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1833 As usual, while looking for one thing on the British Newspaper archive some thing else pops up. May 1956.
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Dawn Gingell Yealmpton All posts by this member | 33 of 42 Sun 1st Sep 2019 8:47pm Member: Joined Sep 2019 Total posts:2 Hello, I'm new to this page.
My parents were Salvation Army officers and ran the then hostel from 1967 until the museum took over in 1970. I recently took a long detour to look at the site and have since been trying to marry family photos taken outside in the gardens. It's difficult. I wonder if anyone has photos taken durin the 1960s or any which show how the later workhouse buildings link up the ancient monastery sandstone ones.
An aerial one like one member has already prosted would be ideal.
Many, many thanks.
I was only three when we moved from there but can remember snatches, mainly a spiral staircase which was too scary to venture and a large room we used as a playroom upstairs. My cousins tell me we had to go down some steps to get to the front door and our kitchen was dark.
Thanks again
Dawn
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 34 of 42 Sun 1st Sep 2019 9:38pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 Hi Dawn ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 35 of 42 Sun 1st Sep 2019 9:51pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 On 21st Jul 2019 5:56pm, Annewiggy said:
As usual, while looking for one thing on the British Newspaper archive some thing else pops up. May 1956.
It's weird looking at pictures of excavations of stuff there are photographs of. There is a lot of good documentation on Whitefriars. |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 36 of 42 Mon 2nd Sep 2019 9:16am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3773 Yes I actually visited the site, but you were not allowed near, no one wanted to answer questions, unless you could nail one of the diggers when he left the site. Different ball-game altogether in those days, so reading that, and although brilliant, it's not quite the same today as 1956. |
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Dawn Gingell Yealmpton All posts by this member | 37 of 42 Mon 2nd Sep 2019 4:55pm Member: Joined Sep 2019 Total posts:2 On 1st Sep 2019 9:38pm, Helen F said:
Hi Dawn
Thank you very much for that helpful advice. I shall get on to it right away!!!!!
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Diesel74 Cornwall All posts by this member | 38 of 42 Thu 5th Sep 2019 1:42pm Member: Joined Aug 2019 Total posts:3 When I was at Blue Coat School, we had various tours of Whitefriars and were told stories about the quality of the wool of the herds looked after by the friars there. I remember it as a gallery, too, but feel sorry for the city council - not usually this generous - in that funding has been slashed so badly during not only austerity but the previous Labour government, too, that vitally important buildings in our city's past are left to rot.
But then, that was the cry of my grandmother when even before World War Two historic buildings were being bulldozed in the name of progress.
And in the redevelopment post-war.
I wrote a blog post recently that the city of my childhood, youth and formative years was gone. And not replaced by anything better than was there IMHO. At least developers can't demolish what's left of Whitefriars, although when I worked at the CET I understood some allowances were made on the site for Cov Uni expansion.
Mark
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 39 of 42 Thu 28th Nov 2019 11:08am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5604 Here's some photos I took in 2008 - views of Whitefriars not commonly seen ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 40 of 42 Thu 28th Nov 2019 4:07pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 MR, ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 41 of 42 Thu 28th Nov 2019 11:49pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 Great colours and angles of the building MR ![]() |
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 42 of 42 Wed 2nd Sep 2020 2:03pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1531 ![]() |
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