AU10/91/10

Letter from F.G.Brightman in Luton to Andrew Underwood: - Schofield Morris was Wesleyan minister when he first joined the choir in Ampthill and Miss Florence Goodacre was organist, followed three or four years later by [Alston] Yorke the schoolmaster at the Wesleyan School; the photograph AU has sent includes: Henry Stapleton; William Sugars; George Sugars; Kiddy; Miss Wootton and her sister; Winnie Tompkins; Miss Sugars; - William Sugars was a partner in Sugars & Lucas, painters and decorators in Church Street; [Stephen] Kiddy worked for Prudential Insurance Company and lived across the road from the Friends Meeting House; James Wootton was the postman and came from Clophill, living in Arthur Street when in Ampthill; Henry Stapleton married a Miss Wootton and joined the police force in Canterbury [Kent]; - a man named New currently lived in Dunstable Road, Luton; his grandfather was Arthur New who lived in Arthur Street, Ampthill and was MRCVS [a veterinary surgeon], the grandson was a fruiterer and greengrocer; - he had not included Harold Phillips in his list of Ampthill firemen [see AU10/91/3], he was collector for the Brigade when it was maintained by public subscription, a job the writer did for a few years

18 Aug 1973

From: 1900 To: 1973

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Underwood, Andrew Grimmer,
Brightman, Frank G.,
Morris, Schofield,
Goodacre, Florence,
Yorke, E.Allston,
Stapleton, Henry,
Sugars, William,
Sugars, George,
Kiddy, Stephen,
Tompkins, Winnie,
Sugars,
Wootton,
Sugars & Lucas,
Prudential Assurance Company Ltd,
Wootton, James,
Phillips, Harold,
New, Arthur

fruiterer, greengrocer, photographs, named portraits, church choirs, Methodist individuals, church organs, general police, Sugars & Lucas, painters, postman, veterinary surgeon, local fire brigades, LUTON, AMPTHILL, CLOPHILL, Ampthill Church Street, Ampthill Arthur Street, Luton Dunstable Road, Canterbury