Witheridge - Photograph Index

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WI0301	Gordon Pyne, Cedric Tudball, Harry Kelly, Norman Chapple, John Leach, Eric Manley, Les Pyne, Roy Manley at Chapner.
WI0302	Gordon Pyne, Hilary Jones, Francis Kelland.
WI0303	The Reeds outside the Hare and Hounds. The youngest is Cecil, Vernon is on the right, Basil on the left and Florrie at the back.
WI0304	Marion Rice in the 1920s in the pram made by her father, Jack Rice, who was carpenter, wheelwright, postman and lamplighter
WI0305	1928. Eliza Margaret Rice, working at Middlewick. She was born in 1911 at Ebringtons Row. She recalled the time when a Tiger Moth landed in the field by Middlewick. She married Arthur Bryant.
WI0306	Betty Rolle and Enid Grant.
WI0307	1914. The two families of George Henry Selley. Left to right: Fred, Stanley, Bert and Francis, Stephen, Emily and George (parents), Sidney, Constance, Vera. All six boys served in the 1914/18 war. Picture taken at Cannington House.
WI0308	Eric and Stanley Selley and Michael Cutcliffe at the back of Cannington House, West Street.
WI0309	About 1895. Mrs Emily Selley (second wife of George Selley, Cannington House) and her four stepsons, Herbert, Stanley, Francis and Fred.
WI0310	The wedding of Leonard Beedel and Vera Selley (late 1920s) taken outside Fern Cottage. Left to right Gwyneth Selley, ? , Constance Selley, Leonard Beedell, Vera Selley.
WI0311	1934. Christening of Thelma Selley. Back L to R: Isaac Kerslake, Mrs Kerslake holding Thelma, Mary Selley, Stephen Selley. Front L to R: Eric, Rita, Freda, and Stanley Selley.
WI0312	Ann Selley, born 1824, died 1900.Fredas Great Grandmother. Emily Anns mother. South Molton.
WI0313	Ralph and Evelyn Tarr
WI0314	Mrs Bill Thomas
WI0315	Sarah Trawin before leaving England in 1911. Sarah Trawin went to Canada. At the start of the century (20th), the Trawin family were living at 19, The Square. Previously they had been at Leigh House and at Lashbrookes. They were in the wool trade, and some remember Trawins Linhay beside the main road on the village side of New Bridge, where they stored their wool. They came from a wool family in South Molton, which in 1861 included a wool agent, two woolcombers, two wool sorters and two wool weavers. Sarah Trawin was born in 1885 and attended Witheridge British School (Top School, Chapel School) from 1892 to 1900, when she became a Monitoress. Later she completed her four years as a pupil teacher and was then appointed an uncertificated teacher. In 1904, like other schools, the school received a wall map of Canada from the Canadian High Commissioner for Emigration. This may have been the spur that took Sarah's older brother, Frank, to Canada in 1906, where he farmed. In 1911, Sarah, her sister Annie and their young brother Arthur (he was 15) decided to emigrate and join Frank. The school was sad to see Sarah go, and on her last day she was presented with a handbag, a dressing case and an album containing views of Witheridge and a list of subscribers. Her brother Arthurs descendants still have the album. Annie returned to England and Witheridge) fairly soon, and in 1924, Frank came back to take over the family wool business. Arthur returned briefly, once, in the course of his service in the Canadian forces in the last year of the war, 1918. Annie lived at Leigh House in the 1930s, and is still remembered in Witheridge. It is Arthurs descendants who, in 1995, made contact and asked for information on their family and where they lived in Witheridge.
WI0316	Sarah (Sally) (Trawin) Whitome.
WI0317	Sarah Trawins brother Frank in Canadian Army uniform.
WI0318	Annie (Nancy) Trawin (1883/1964).
WI0319	Arthur Trawin (Oct 17th 1895 to Nov 4th 1976), son of Henry and Sarah.
WI0320	Sarah Trawins sister Ella, who joined her brothers and sisters in Saskatchewan in 1912.
WI0321	1925.The Trawins outside their home, Leigh House, The Square. Left to right; Harry, Annie, Ella, Sarah (Henry Tapp Trawins widow). The car is Frank Trawins Bullnose Morris Tourer.
WI0322	Cedric Tudballs Tree.
WI0323	1950s. Ivan Vanstone and Bolster outside Bow Cottage.
WI0324	Bill and Olive Vernon.
WI0325	Samuel James Way, Left, and his brother in law, Reuben.
WI0326	1914/1918 War. Samuel James Way, Devon Yeomanry.

WI0327	Samuel J. Way and Tinker at the back of his workshop.
WI0328	Samuel and Sarah Way, outside The Old Vicarage.
WI0329	Betty Ways Grandfather in North Street, Ways Field on left.
WI0330	Betty Way and Alan Vernon.
WI0331	Betty Way and Swannie (Lance Corporal Swan).
WI0332	Jack Carnachan, Mrs G. Rodd, Mrs Betty Alleyne at Thelbridge Inn in September 2000.
WI0333	Eileen Southcott, Joanna Malseed, Betty Way.
WI0334	Betty Way with her father and grandfather.
WI0335	James Ways 2nd wife, Sarah Jane, Betty Alleyne's step grandmother.
WI0336	Samuel Way, father of Betty Alleyne, at the back of Ebringtons Row.
WI0337	Andy Mitchell and Ways pony outside Ways house, The Square.
WI0338	On right Irene Way, her god daughter, Denise.
WI0339	Anne Dryer holding 'Topsy'. Margaret Baker on board, Betty Way looking over horses mane, Andy Mitchell on windowsill at 10 The Square.
WI0340	Mr and Mrs Sam Way and Betty.
WI0341	Plovers Barrows, West Street. Screen.
WI0342	Plovers Barrows. Probably Witheridge's oldest house dating from the 16th Century.
WI0343	From the 1840 Tithe Map.
WI0344	The Black Dog pub in the square was old in 1850, and no attempts were made to match the then modern Angel Hotel. One Witheridge resident remembered that in the early days of the 20th century, it was a rough cider pub, with low ceilings inside and dark as a dungeon. Each round was a two-quart jug of cider per man. The interior consisted of a big kitchen with several settles. The beer and cider were drawn out the back. The last landlord, Mr Ephraim Clark, allowed roadsters (as tramps were called) to spend the night in the attic, but made sure they handed over their cigarettes and matches before they went up, for fear of fire. The pub closed at the end of the 1914/18 war, failing to get its licence renewed because the Police objected that there were too many bolt holes to watch.
WI0345	The Square 1890s. The children are from the British School which had no playground.
WI0346	Witheridge butchers, taken at the back of Cannington House in the 1880s. On the right stands Mr George Henry Selley, who took over the butchers business at Cannington House in the 1880s. Beside him is his first wife Edith May Selley (1867 to 1891) who had had five children at the time of her death aged 24 years. Mr Selley (1864-1940) married again and his second wife also bore five children. Also present is Mr Ernest Hill (slaughterer), and Mr Wreford of Bradford.
WI0347	This is our earliest photograph, taken in 1886. The thatched houses on the far side were burned down in February 1886. They were occupied by Mr J Churchill: saddler, Mr J Dinner: wheelwright, Mr W Way: carpenter, Mr H Trawin: wool merchant.
WI0348	The Square about 1900, with oil lamps and cobbled pavement.
WI0349	Trafalgar Square, Witheridge circa 1900.
WI0350	This is a copy of a watercolour painting of Witheridge Square before 1911. The original belongs to Mrs Judy Roake of Victoria, Australia. It was the property of her grandmother, Ellen Edith Gard, who was born in Witheridge on May 8th 1886. On the 14th January, 1911, Ellen and her sister Alice and Alice's husband, Albert Green, set sail on the Wilcannia for Australia. The painting has been in Australia ever since. Judy Roake has asked that this note be attached to the print as she says I would like to think that my Grandmas name was remembered in her home village. I know she loved Witheridge, she was always proud that she came from there.