Now I will have to take advice on this one but I think Beach Lawns at Weston-Super-Mare may be all that is left of a trail I have been on for the last half an hour.
It began and looks as if it will end with the detail in this picture postcard which was sent to Mr and Mrs Turner c/o Mrs Hanman at 15 Oxton Street, Harpurhey in the August of 1933.
Eve wrote to the Turner’s "Dear Eddie and Bessie.
Having a very nice holiday. Had a visit from Flo and Frank yesterday. How’s this for a lovely spot?”
And as you do I went looking for Oxton Street but it has vanished and appears to have had a short existence. It dates from some time at the beginning of the last century but is now no more.
Nor without a surname will I be able to find Eve or for that matter Fred and Flo, leaving only an outside chance that the Turner’s or Mrs Hanman will turn up in the historical record.
Not that I will be deterred, there are always the city’s burial records, the directories and the census returns.
The 1939 Register had quite a few Turner’s so with patience and a bit of luck something might come out of the shadows.
So for now I am back with Beach Lawns. We did Weston some years ago but I have no recollection of this bit so I shall have to ask my friend Lois who has lived there on and off for a long time.
Location; Weston-Super-Mare and Harpurhey
Picture; Beach Lawns at Weston Super Mare, circa 1933 from the collection of Ron Stubley
Eve wrote to the Turner’s "Dear Eddie and Bessie.
Having a very nice holiday. Had a visit from Flo and Frank yesterday. How’s this for a lovely spot?”
And as you do I went looking for Oxton Street but it has vanished and appears to have had a short existence. It dates from some time at the beginning of the last century but is now no more.
Not that I will be deterred, there are always the city’s burial records, the directories and the census returns.
The 1939 Register had quite a few Turner’s so with patience and a bit of luck something might come out of the shadows.
So for now I am back with Beach Lawns. We did Weston some years ago but I have no recollection of this bit so I shall have to ask my friend Lois who has lived there on and off for a long time.
Location; Weston-Super-Mare and Harpurhey
Picture; Beach Lawns at Weston Super Mare, circa 1933 from the collection of Ron Stubley
I shall take a photo of it as it now and send it to you!!
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