Now the trail has gone cold on Mrs Sykes and the Diggle Hotel
Her connection with the Hotel goes back to 1861 when aged just 9 months she was living there with her mother who was the sister of Frederick Radcliffe the licensee.
A decade later she was living with her parents close by in the home of James Broadbent whose sisters were working in the Hotel in 1861.
And sometime during the middle of the 1880s she had married and was herself settled as landlady in the Diggle Hotel.
Hers will be a fascinating story to explore, more so because it will bring in the Radcliffe, Platt, Broadbent and Sykes’ families who she was related to and all of whom were embedded in the story of Diggle.
I had meant to go looking for the story earlier in December but got waylaid by other projects, but Peter’s painting of the Diggle Hotel has set me off again, and who knows maybe someone in Diggle will be able to help.
Painting; the Diggle Hotel © 2015 Peter Topping
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A decade later she was living with her parents close by in the home of James Broadbent whose sisters were working in the Hotel in 1861.
And sometime during the middle of the 1880s she had married and was herself settled as landlady in the Diggle Hotel.
Hers will be a fascinating story to explore, more so because it will bring in the Radcliffe, Platt, Broadbent and Sykes’ families who she was related to and all of whom were embedded in the story of Diggle.
I had meant to go looking for the story earlier in December but got waylaid by other projects, but Peter’s painting of the Diggle Hotel has set me off again, and who knows maybe someone in Diggle will be able to help.
Painting; the Diggle Hotel © 2015 Peter Topping
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
Facebook: Paintings from Pictures https://www.facebook.com/paintingsfrompictures
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