Bonsall Photo Archive

Can you help identify people and places?

• tell us who people are?
• where and when the photos were taken?
• tell us anything about the occasions when the photos were taken?

Photo Archive Contents

The archive has grown to 143 photographs including views of the village, Bonsall people and their daily lives, outings, celebrations and carnival

Page 1 Views of Bonsall

1. Bonsall Lodge at the foot of the Clatterway, viewed from Holly Finnes. Postcard by Frith
2. The Clatterway. Postcard by Frith
3. A view of the village looking north from Black Tor, Study Farm in the foreground. Postcard by Frith
4. View of the village from Study Drive. (Photograph loaned by J. Land)
5. The Fountain. Postcard by Frith
6. The Fountain monument. Postcard by Frith
7. Yeoman Street, looking north up the hill from The Fountain. Frith's postcard. (Photograph loaned by J. Land)
8. The Cross, looking at Dobb Lane and Green Hill. (Photograph loaned by J. Land)
9. The Cross, with The Queen's Head pub just beyond, The King's Head on the right. (Photograph loaned by J. Land)
10. The High Street, the Manor House on the right. (Photograph loaned by J. Land)

Page 2 Views of Bonsall

11. The Queens Head
12. Bonsall Cross, viewed from the bottom of Church Street.
13. St James's Church
14. Postcard showing interior of St James Church (loaned by Slack family)
15. The Mount Guest House, looking down on it from Stoney Croft. (Postcard by Frith, loaned by J. Land)
16. School and The Fountain. (Photograph loaned by Millward family)
17. Two children on top of a horse-drawn cart outside the Barley Mow. 1930
18. Outside the Barley Mow. (written on back) Mrs Webster
19. Clearing snow in Abel Lane, March 1934. (Photograph loaned by the Taylor family)
20. Via Gellia mill (Photograph loaned by the Taylor family)

Page 3 Views & Bonsall People

21. Via Gellia
22. Postcard, view of Via Gellia from the top of the hill.
23. Slaley Hall surrounded by scaffolding during building or restoration, early 20th C. (written on back) Slaley Hall (Photograph loaned by the Slack family)
24. 'The Study' - home of the Prince family. It burnt down and only the stone bay window survives as part of Study Farm.
25. Family in cottage garden. (Photograph loaned by C. Balmer)
26. Little girl with dog, late 19th, early 20th C. (Photographed loaned by D. Moore)
27. Group collecting for lifeboats. Mid 20th C. (Photographed loaned by D. Moore)
28. Tinted photograph. Back row: Lizzie Bunting, Julia Walker, Hilda Sheldon, Winnie Brooks, Ada Poundall, Hannah Bunting. Second row: Hilda Young, Margaret Brown, Nelly Brown, Lizzie Crofts, Pamela Massey. Front row: Ada Gregory, Minnie Brown, Maud Kidd, Eliza (or Elya?) Bunting, Emma Holmes.
29. Millward family group c1940s Left to right: Jack Millward, Lucy? Millward (aunt to Jack), Mrs Gregory's mother, Muriel Millward. (Photograph loaned by Mrs S. Gregory)
30. Group of men, women and children in garden.

Page 4 Bonsall People

31. Herbert Millward as a soldier (written on back) b1890? Poem? m. Edith Allsop 9 children. (Photograph loaned by Mrs S. Gregory)
32. The War in South Africa The Selected Contingent of 2nd Derbyshire Volunteers. (Photographed for "THE DERBYSHIRE TIMES," February 24th, 1900.)Back row: Pte B. Goodlad, Pte W. Mannifold, Pte E. Jones, Pte W. Taylor, Pte F. S. White, Pte G. Cox, Pte A. Turner, Pte E. White. Middle row: Pte Piggford, Pte Brailsford, Pte F. White, Pte J. Frith, Pte C. Depledge, Pte A. Taylor, Pte T. Cotterill, Pte H. Goodlad, Pte R. E. Casterton. Front row: Pte E. Ormesher, Pte J. W. Millward, Pte J. Holmes, Sgt J Austin, Sgt-Major Wells, Crpl O. Taylor, Pte Littlewood, Pte W. Mason, Pte S. Farnsworth, Pte E. Norton. (Photograph loaned by Mrs S. Gregory)
33. WWI Birthday postcard sent to Pte Frank Millward with the 24th Machine Gun Company, BEF, in France by his mother. (Photograph loaned by Millward family).
34. WWI soldier - Somewhere in France. With Fondest love, all good wishes and the best of luck From Leonard. Adressee Mr Frank Millward, 3rd Batt Notts & Derbys, Cleadon Huts, Sunderland, England. (Photograph loaned by Millward family)
35. Group of WWI soldiers "taken on the 17th day of Oct 1916 at Abbert (Albert?)" (Photograph loaned by Millward family)
36. Group of WWI soldiers. (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
37. Group of WWI soldiers. (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
38. Family in garden. (Photograph loaned by Millward family)
39. Coach and four - are they going along the Via Gellia? (Photograph loaned by J. Land)
40. Man and woman on horseback. (Photograph loaned by J. Land)

Page 5 Bonsall People

41. Man on horseback. (Photograph loaned by J. Land)
42. Six women and a baby. (Photograph loaned by Millward family)
43. Group of men around The Cross. (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
44. Man holding baby. (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
45. Haymaking. (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
46. Haymaking (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
47. Haymaking (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
48. Two children (Photograph loaned by Mountney family).
49. Man (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
50. Man holding baby (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)

Page 6 Bonsall People

51. Two men with a wheelbarrow (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
52. Two women outside a cottage (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
53. Toddler (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
54. Girl (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
55. Three women walking in a lane (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
56. Two men sitting on a bench (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
57. John Mountney, taken at Hollies Farm (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
58. Two men with motorbike & sidecar (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
59. 1935 Joe and Ernest Slack and their father making hay in Round Low. (loaned by Slack family)
60. Women in cart drawn by a cow (written on the back) 'What do you think to this one?' (Photograph loaned by Slack family)

Page 7 Bonsall People

61. Man milking a cow in a field (written on back - very faint) Gr? Hubert? 1930 P.S. (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
62. Man with horse and child (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
63. Man with horse and cart1940 (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
64. Man driving tractor 1937 (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
65. Three young men in garden (written on back) Wishing you a Happy New Year (signature) A J Henstock (?) Dec 31/90 Hanley (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
66. Old lady in garden (written on back) Lucy Henstock died August 1916 83 age P.S. Photographed by J. Sheldon, Bonsall. (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
67. 1933 Three generations of the Slack family (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
68. The late Charlie Bartram and his mother and sister about 1909. (written on back) Aunty ?Luce ?Lucy May Queen (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
69. Class photograph, boys and schoolmaster (loaned by Smedley family)
70. The Cross with a few people sitting around it, Queens Head in the background (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)

Page 8 Bonsall People

71. Frank and Sarah Ann Sanders with daughter Elizabeth, High Street. c1898 (Photograph loaned by Hallam family)
72. Ann Rolley, mother of Sarah Ann Sanders (Photograph loaned by Hallam family)
73. School or Sunday School group. (Photograph loaned by Hallam family)
74. Harold Smith, the butcher at 3 High Street (Wharmby’s shop) taken in 1935. (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
75. Butcher Harold Smith, 1935. (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
76. People and car (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
77. Butcher Harold Smith at work, 1935 (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
78. Girls in classroom with teacher (Photograph loaned by Tomlinson family)

Page 9 Outings, Celebrations & Carnival

79. Outing to Blackpool, setting off from the Pig of Lead 1946
80. Fancy dress, play or concert party (Photograph loaned by Di Moore)
81. Children's Nativity (Photograph loaned by Millward family)
82. Nativity play, adults

Page 10 Outings, Celebrations & Carnival

83. Army reservists (?) outside the Queens Head
84. A very old photo of people around the Cross. (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
85. May Day celebration (?) around the Cross. (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
86. May Day celebration (?) around the Cross. (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
87. May Day 1905 (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
88. May Day celebration (?) around the Cross.(Photograph loaned by Mountney family)
89. Wedding party c1930s posing on The Cross. Names written on the back: (Top row ) May Millward (on left) Florrie Holbrook.
    (Middle row) Alice Spencer (on left) Horace Gratton (pageboy) Nancy Webster, J.W. Millward.
    (Front row) John Pugh (pageboy) Hilda Bond, Tom Wheeldon, ? Haroy. (Photograph loaned by Smedley family)
90. Carnival ‘wedding party’(Photograph loaned by Smedley family)
91. Carnival royalty (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
92. Carnival royalty (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
93. Nehemiah Doxey beside 1953 well dressing (Photograph loaned by Hallam family)
94. Boys School well dressing 1954 (Photograph loaned by Hallam family)

Page 11 Outings, Celebrations & Carnival

95. Troupe of little girls with flower garlands. (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
96. Carnival Queen and Princesses riding in a decorated open car. (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
97. Programme for Bonsall Wakes July 29 1933 (front and back pages).
98. Inside pages Carnival programme 1933 (122KB file size)
99. Bonsall Wakes Charity Carnival and Well Dressings, Wakes Saturday August 1st 1931. Front and back pages. (129KB file size)
100. Carnival programme 1931, inside pages (141KB file)
101. Concert party (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
102. Concert party (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
103. Concert or fancy dress party (Photograph loaned by Slack family)
104. Children’s nativity play (Photograph loaned by Tomlinson family)

Page 12 Outings, Celebrations & Carnival

105. Cricketers outside The Fountain Inn (Photograph loaned by Tomlinson family)
106. The Park (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
107. Carnival day, top of Yeoman Street, c1960s (Photograph loaned by Taylor family)
108. Carnival c1960s (Photograph loaned by Land family)
109. Carnival c1960s (Photograph loaned by Land family)
110. Carnival c1960s (Photograph loaned by Land family)
111. 30ft overshot mill wheel at the Bonsall Colourworks on The Clatterway (now rebuilt as a private house)
112. A poem about Bonsall (Photograph loaned by Mountney family)

Page 13 1950s photos from the Latham family

113. Yeoman's Stores 1948 (now the garage next to Dale End House).
114. Football Club Dinner in The Fountain clubroom includes Tom Latham, Sammy Elliott, Teddie Thorneycroft,Tommy Poundall, Mr Rickard from the Kings Head, Ian Buxton and Roughy Moore. Can you identify any of the others? Email Bonsall History Project,or tell any member of the Project.
115. Carnival 1952 or 53. Front row: Roughy Moore, Tom Latham, Lillian Gregory (nee Dunkerley, her Mum lived at Edbumperall and ran the garage before Sammy Elliott). Back row: Owen Millward, Daisy Baker, Tommy Austin, Alf Bunting
116. Well dressing 1953
117. Well dressing 1958
118. Well dressing
119. Well dressing
120. Well dressing
121. Well dressing

Page 14 The Study & Miss Prince 1922

122. Miss Prince
123. The Study
124. Percy Olive, chauffeur
125. Percy Olive
126. Watercolour painted by Miss Prince
127. Watercolour painted by Miss Prince
128. Clearing snowdrifts in Church Street - anyone know which year?
129. School leaving certificate 1934.
130. Jack Webster

Page 15 Elections, Soldiers & Sailors

131. Abraham Webster's election leaflet 1919.
132. Abraham Webster's election leaflet 1919.
133. Charles White's election leaflet
134. Charles White's election leaflet
135. Presentation to Charles White.
136. Inkstand and teaset presented to Charles White, 1911
137. Grandad
138. Funeral card for Joseph Bunting. Died aged only 4 months old in 1897
139. George, soldier from WWI
140. Arthur, soldier from WWI
141. Willie Eberwiser, German POW. One of the men who rebuilt the steps up 'Stepping Lane'.
142. Walter Baker, killed when the Neptune hit four mines off Tripoli in 1944.
143. The story of Norman Walton, best friend of Walter Baker and the only man to survive the sinking of the Neptune.
144. Harold Land, served in 121 Company, Pioneer Corps, during WW2
145. Norman Land who served in the 5th Suffolk Regiment during WW2

The Bonsall History Project has been supported by the Local Heritage Initiative