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Scrapbook no.2: James, Crisp and Rabbitt. Page 152: Two colour photograph views of the Embankment, Bedford [1986] Page 153: Colour photographs. View of the Great Ouse at Bedford. Two interior views of St Pauls Church, Bedford. Page 154: Photocopies. Apprenticeship Indenture of Frederick James to George Wells & Co., Cabinet Maker, of High Street, Bedford for 5 years from 4 September 1888. Programme for The Mikado at Bedford Corn Exchange 20 November c.1885. Menu for St Pauls Choir Supper 13 May 1909. Page 155: Original portrait photograph of Frederick James (1872 - 1943). Photographer R Atkins Wellsley, Midland Road, Bedford. Two original black and white photographs, one of Frederick James with his dog 'Chum' sitting on his back, and one of Chum. Original black and white photograph of Hilda James (b.1904) as a baby, and copy photograph of portrait of Hilda James as a young girl. Page 156: Letter to Fred James from Lieutenant Corporal Bill Armstrong 16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment A Company 20572, from a camp at Hoylake, Cheshire 27 May 1915. Describes his living conditions. Signed 'from your shopmate Bill'. Colour photograph of gravestone of Mary Amelia James, beloved wife of Frederick James died November 3rd 1904 aged 31 years and also of Frederick James at rest 2 March 1943 aged 70. Page 157 - 8: 11 original black and white snapshot photographs of Felixstowe in the 1920s. Page 160: Sepia copy photograph of Edith Norman James (1901 - 1981)c.1907. Page 161: Photocopy of photograph of girls at Grange House, Bedford High School for Girls 1962. Hilda James was Assistant Matron. Signed by the pupils. Page 162: Original black and white photograph of Edith James (1901 - 1981) in Civil Defence uniform. She ran a private school in Leighton Buzzard. Sepia copy print photograph of the Norman family in 1926. Page 163: Sepia copy print photographs of Mary Amelia James nee Rabbitt (1873 - 1904) and Marianne Rabbitt. Colour photograph of Hilda Amelia James (b.1904) and Winnifred Maude Salmon nee Walford (1909 - 1989) at Christie House, Bedford 1986. Page 165: Copy of letter from Anthony Wingfield to Charlie and Fred James (aged 17 and 16) on their leaving home to live in Bedford. 9 Nov 1888. Sepia copy print photograph of Charles James (1871 - 1933), photographer Frederick Thurston. Page 166: Sepia copy print photograph of Charles James holding a shotgun. Copy of his obituary from the Leighton Buzzard Observer 9 May 1933. Page 167: Sepia copy print photographs of the James family. One is of the family on the beach, another with the children in a trap drawn by a goat. Page 168: Sepia copy print photograph of Edith Sophia James nee Norman ((b.1870). Original black and white photograph of Edith Sophia James nee Norman with Eva Salmon nee James. Two postcards of All Saints Church,. Leighton Buzzard. Page 169: Sepia copy print photographs. Hilda Amelia James (b.1904) as a child. George Stephen James (b.1879) who emigrated to Canada and served in WW1 with Canadian forces. Postcard of ice palace at Montreal, Canada, sent by George James to Frank James Salmon in 1909. Page 170: Sepia copy print photograph of William Gell James (b.1865) as a young man. Original black and white portrait photographs of Margaret Emily James(daughter of William) and her husband Albert Leech, a newsagent from Cambridge. Page 171: Crisp family tree 1857 - 1966. Page 172: Sepia copy print photographs. Charles Milton Crisp( 1899 - 1966) aged 2 years 10 months. Beatrice Crisp nee James (1873 - 1904). Doris Elizabeth Crisp nee Milton with her son Billie. Page 173: Two colour photographs of 21 Grove Place, Bedford, home to Frederick and Hilda James from 1900 - 1983. Page 174: Rabbitt family tree 1825 - 1943. Sepia copy print photographs. Mary Ann Rabbitt (nee Barlow 1831 - 1907) and Mary Amelia Rabbitt (later James 1873 - 1904). Portraits with colour tint of Mary Ann Rabbitt (nee Barlow 1831 - 1907) and Edward Rabbitt (1825 - 1898) a foundrysmith and publican in Bedford. Page 175: Sepia copy print photographs. Edward Rabbitt(1825 - 1898). Louisa Marianne Rabbitt (b.1868) in nurses uniform holding a baby, c.1915. She cared for Belgian refugees during WW1. Louisa Marianne Rabbitt with the bedspread she made for the 1920 Peace Fair. Copy of obituary of Edward Rabbitt from Bedfordshire Times 19 Aug 1898. He was landlord of the Saracens Head, Bedford. Page 179: Three sepia copy print photographs. Two unknown, one of Ada Florence Rabbitt (b.1875). Page 180: Insert sepia copy print photograph of family group in park. Colour photographs of the Saracen's Head, St Pauls Square, Bedford c.1991, and the gravestone of Edward Rabbitt died 6 Aug 1898 and Marianne Rabbitt died 13 Feb 1907. Page 181 - 184: 9 sepia copy print photographs of unidentified Rabbitt and James family members. Photographers: W Salmon, Bedford, D Lindley, Bedford, E Walker, Bedford, E S Balls, Bedford, Blake and Edgar, Bedford. Page 185 - 6: 6 sepia copy print photographs. Frederick James and his friend Mephi lighting their pipes. The same men in a rowboat on the lock on the Great Ouse at Bedford, and on the river by the bank. View of the suspension bridge at Bedford. View of Batts Ford and two steam locomotives on the river bridge. Page 187 - 188: Sepia copy print photographs of the river near Bedford Page 192: Guide to Earls Barton Parish Church Page 193 - 194: 4 colour photographs of Earls Barton Church and graveyard. Sepia copy print of Eva Salmon, 'AUnt Lil' and 'Aunt Jenny' in a car c1910. Page 195: Two colour photographs of Woolastonv village and Village Museum. Page 196: Colour photograph of Norman James Batchelor Salmon c.1991

c.1992

From: 1992 To: 1992

No. of pieces: 1

item

James,
Crisp,
Rabbitt,
Wells, George,
James, Frederick,
James, George,
Wellsley, R Atkins,
James, Hilda,
Armstrong, Bill,
James, Mary Amelia,
James, Edith Norman,
Rabbitt, Mary Amelia,
Rabbitt, Mary Ann,
James, Hilda Amelia,
Salmon, Winnifred Maude,
Walford, Winnifred Maude,
Wingfield, Anthony,
James, Charles,
Thurston, Frederick,
James, Edith Sophia,
Norman, Edith Sophia,
Salmon, Eva,
James, Eva,
James, George Stephen,
Salmon, Frank James,
James, William Gell,
James, Margaret Emily,
Leech, Margaret Emily,
Leech, Albert,
Crisp, Charles Milton,
Crisp, Beatrice,
James, Beatrice,
Rabbitt, Edward,
Barlow, Mary Ann,
James, Louisa Marianne,
Rabbitt, Ada Florence,
Lindley, Donald,
Balls, E S,
Walker, E,
Blake & Edgar Limited,
Salmon, Norman James Batchelor

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