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and my last offering for today... Item number: 180025079767 WW1 Soldier in France - cards to family in Birmingham This is a group of 4 items relating to the Halling family of Aston Manor, Birmingham. The couple were married at Aston Old Church in 1915, after which the husband left to serve in France Item number: 110030063190 Documents, medal & photographs Wragg family history (lovely collection!) Item number: 160027217336 VINTAGE PARCHEMENT -THE HOUSE OF BYROM - FAMILY TREE (also includes PARR family and dates back to long before records began)

Found some more bits... Item number: 150028089766 Letter sent on behalf of Captain J.B.Taylor of the Somerset Light Infantry in the June of 1917. Captain Taylor was at the time a Prisoner of War in Germany, in fact he had been a POW since 1914. The letter was sent by his mother to the Royal Society of Arts in London, Item number: 140025534867 WWI BEF Framed Letter from Lt Sidney Wren of the Royal Engineers to a Mrs Bradfield telling her that her son Sapper H.H. Bradfield had been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry. Written in ink with a dip pen on 101st Infantry Brigade Headquarters headed notepaper. Framed and glazed. No date but presumably 1914. Item number: 150030640051 Interesting letter from a soldier at pontefract Barracksto his loved one, dated 1942 (addressed to Winnie) Item number: 180025990127 1904 THOMAS SHINGLER OF UPPER TEAN STAFFORDSHIRE LETTER Item number: 150030891841 1795 Neatly written Entire Letter from JOHN RICHARDSON on board HMS MARS lying in the NORE charged 9d to RICHARD RICHARDSON at COPPENHURST HALL Near CHESTER Item number: 220025623740 Pullout Letter Card 1947 Plymouth pc (addressed to Mr & Mrs Willsher of Brighton from George) Item number: 250026428755 This is a truly delightful collection of over 77 personal letters, receipts and documents dated from 1829 up to 1900s the majority are dated from the middle of the 1800's. They are all connected to a French woman called Mathilde de Bernardy who appears to have originated from Geneva in Switzerland who married a Gentleman who lived in Paris but originated from England (his job title is agent d'affairs).

Hi Pat Nice to see you are still around. I am still here but have been busy with a new job lately. I have abandoned my London family as I have got no further with them since we last spoke. Hope you are doing better with yours! Lyla

Item number: 270027399444 Family Bible WITH REGISTERED FAMILY BIRTHS DEATHS AND MARRIAGES DATING BACK TO 1842 1 FAMILY (looks like SNOW family) Item number: 160028274119 Family Bible Contains a Family Register section and this consists of 4 pages covering details of a family name of WALTON from the Cheadle Hulme area - earliest date being 1829 - latest being 1907. Other areas mentioned, Manchester, Co. Northumberland, Mersey. Item number: 130024358758 Description This is fascinating item! It is a very detailed scrapbook/journal of a young woman who travelled aboard the S.S. Sussex to visit Paris in 1913. She describes in great detail every aspect of her visit, the journey, the places she visited, the family with whom she stayed with, the friends she made and her feelings of the cultural change she experienced. Throughout the scrapbook/journal she has inserted a variety of of items relating to her visit including,newspaper articles, postcards, photographs, tickets. She has also sketched some items including the fashion that she saw, she seemed to take a very keen interest in this aspect of her visit. There is far to much information in the album for me to list so if you have any specific questions I will be more than happy to answer them. Item number: 330025113955 1883 HUGE SCRAPBOOK This scrapbook belonged to Alice Southey, 1883. It is a very large album, the outer covers of which are the worse for wear and so is the album. However, although the paper is very battered there are 35 pages, still bound together, of beautiful Victorian scraps.

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