This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.*
Now it is that time of year again and we are thinking of a summer holiday.
It’s an attractive thought given that the rain is coming down like stair rods.
Of course not that we ever went far when we lived in Well Hall.
From spring till the end of the summer dad drove coaches across mainland Europe from France to Italy with an option on Belgium, Holland and Switzerland.
It was a job he had dome since the 1920s and from sometime around 1952 began talking discerning travellers on holidays, seeing the sights and getting a flavour of Brussels, Paris and Milan.
I say faraway places but for most people back in the 1950s and early 60s the Italian Lakes was far away.
All of which left me and my sisters with holidays in Derby with our grandparents.
Today, for us Italy has a special place given that half the family are Italian and so it is a natural choice most years as a place to visit.
And that of course got me thinking of the people who also lived in 294 from when it was built in 1915 till we moved settled there in the March of 1964.
The previous owners immigrated to Canada and until I have done lots more research on the other families I think Canada will be the furthest destination for any of the previous occupants.
Not that I am surprised. Holiday opportunities for most people during the 20th century were limited and it was not till the coming of cheap air flights and package holidays that most of us could contemplate that far away break in the sun.
Location; Well Hall & Chorlton
Pictures; Il Broletto from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/One%20hundred%20years%20of%20one%20house%20in%20Well%20Hall
It’s an attractive thought given that the rain is coming down like stair rods.
Of course not that we ever went far when we lived in Well Hall.
From spring till the end of the summer dad drove coaches across mainland Europe from France to Italy with an option on Belgium, Holland and Switzerland.
It was a job he had dome since the 1920s and from sometime around 1952 began talking discerning travellers on holidays, seeing the sights and getting a flavour of Brussels, Paris and Milan.
I say faraway places but for most people back in the 1950s and early 60s the Italian Lakes was far away.
All of which left me and my sisters with holidays in Derby with our grandparents.
Today, for us Italy has a special place given that half the family are Italian and so it is a natural choice most years as a place to visit.
And that of course got me thinking of the people who also lived in 294 from when it was built in 1915 till we moved settled there in the March of 1964.
The previous owners immigrated to Canada and until I have done lots more research on the other families I think Canada will be the furthest destination for any of the previous occupants.
Not that I am surprised. Holiday opportunities for most people during the 20th century were limited and it was not till the coming of cheap air flights and package holidays that most of us could contemplate that far away break in the sun.
Location; Well Hall & Chorlton
Pictures; Il Broletto from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/One%20hundred%20years%20of%20one%20house%20in%20Well%20Hall
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