Sunday 26 August 2018

Known Addresses of: Lilian Elizabeth Mary Smith (1897-1934)

These 'Known Addresses of:'posts will detail places documented (or known by living memory). They will be updated, but kept in chronological order, as additional documents/interviews reveal additional addresses.

This posts details the addresses of Lilian Elizabeth Mary Smith (1897-1934). Born in Grimsby/Caistor in 1897, she seems to have lived in Grimsby/New Clee all her life before dying in 1934.

Current known addresses are:

02/04/1911     15 Spencer Street, New Clee
26/03/1917     67 Taylor Street, New Cleethorpes (New Clee)

Spencer Street:
1911 Census

15 Spencer Street. Sadly no longer a residential street.

Taylor Street:
Lilian's marriage record, 1917.

67 Taylor Street, 'New Cleethorpes' (New Clee).

Sunday 19 August 2018

Roy Brown: Fox Street and the church incident

In the early 1990s, my dad (Roy Brown) lived in a house on Fox Street, Scunthorpe. At that time we would stay overnight sometimes at the weekend.

While a lot of the time seemed to be occupying ourselves while dad watched telly, we did often walk to the newsagent, which must have been on Froddingham Road. He would buy my the 'Discovering Nature - on the trail with Billy Bumble' magazine, which seems to have been issued in 1991/1992 - which possibly provides dates for this period of time.

On one occasion we were walking back from the newsagent's and were walking past Centenary Methodist Church and an old lady fell down the steps while leaving the church and cut a large gash in her shin. I remember dad rushing inside to get a chair for her and making sure she was ok. I was proud of my dad that day and wish I had more memories like this.

He lived at Fox Street for a while, and had a dog there for a time, he moved around a lot and this is one of the only streets I remember him living. I remember me and my sister (Naomi Brown) playing in an alleyway there, I'm not sure if this was at the back of the houses or down the side of the house.

Here's the first tape of that magazine series:


Sunday 12 August 2018

Ida Magermans: social smoking

When I visited my grandparents bac in 2017, I spent a lot of time talking to them about current events as well as past events.

My opa (Jan Havenith) suffers from COPD from smoking when he was younger and from this he told me that oma (Ida Magermans) used to smoke in social situations. He mentioned that the height of her smoking was while they lived in the US, but that when the returned to the Netherlands, she eventually stopped.

I'm certainly glad that she did. It would be horrible if they both had to suffer this horrendous condition.

Sunday 5 August 2018

Ida Magermans: Workplace in Heerlen, Limburg

Prior to getting married, oma (Ida Magermans) worked in this building, which was a maternity hospital, opened in 1923 by Queen Wilhelmina. Oma worked in the lab doing blood work. She still has this photographed framed on the wall at their home. It must have meant a great deal to her. It was given to her by her colleagues as a leaving present.

At the time is was common for women getting married to leave their jobs and be financially supported by their husbands.

These days the building is a residential living community (Parc Imstenrade), but prior to this 80,000 babies were born here and it's now a national monument (no. 506441).  Here is a Google Streetview of the building and the address is Parc Imstenrade 3, 6418 PP Heerlen.