|
|
CommentsMoorland Road, Weston-super-Mare
published by Paul Tracey - 4 years 7 months 4 days ago. | | Comment submitted on behalf of John Harding - Sydney - Oz
Thanks Pat -
I thought of that too - but if you compare the distance from the bottom detail of the bay window to the lettering it would seem to be written on the shop signage board - (which in the modern photo is the area painted yellow) - where the Paynes would have had their own name rather than one of the lines they sold - so the photo may be earlier than 1939 - not sure when Jack Harding first opened his business but it may have been before the Paynes began trading at No34 -
 
The first ‘Wills Gold Flake’ photo has a bus coming along Moorland Road - it looks an earlier type than more streamlined buses of the ‘30s - admittedly transport companies keep their machines running as long as possible so that may not mean the bus is contemporary with the snapshot - but perhaps Jack is standing there 5-10 years before 1939 - in addition the window shot may not be contemporary with bus shot either - the family albums are a bit disorganised like most peoples’ - it’s only forensic pendants like me who get obsessive about the details!
Anyhow if you have access to earlier Kellys…
And of course there’s the Mystery of the Moorland Pedlar too…
John H | |
Moorland Road, Weston-super-Mare
published by Pat Hase - 4 years 7 months 5 days ago. | | According to the 1939 Register - Albert & Blanche PAYNE have a shop at 34 Moorland Road and while he is a shopkeeper and salesman she makes home-made sweets, cakes and jam. I can only assume that the notice in their window was for a brand of product associated with their business. Have no idea what it might be though! | |
Moorland Road, Weston-super-Mare
published by - 4 years 7 months 7 days ago. | | Moorland Road.
I’ve posted some variations on this theme in the past but as there seems to be a renewed interest in the old street I thought I’d have another go!
My Grandfather and namesake John Harding lived during the ‘30s and the War years at No35 with his wife Louise and their sons - Harold, David, Roger, and Hubert. He was a tailor and outfitter. The business finally closed in the late '50s. Here’s a view of the road - two actually. Both cobbled together from a couple of snaps taken on the same day.
John is not standing outside his own shop - he must have nipped up the road for a packet of Woodbines!
The photo is looking back towards the seaside end and you can see the shop at the corner of Charlton Ave and Moorland Rd - detail here - No35 is further along.
Below is No35 - I’ve circled a section of the left hand window in red because of something intriguing -
Here it is with a further highlight in green -
In the first image we can see a reflection of the upstairs window of No34 across the road and below it some lettering which seems to be signage in reverse - in the second it’s been righted.
Below how No34 looks today with No35 reflected in the two small right hand windows!
But what does it say? - my 1949 Kelly’s has the premises as occupied by ‘Payne Albt. Wm’ and ‘Payne B. confctnr’
I’m assuming that means ‘confectioner’ - a sweet shop perhaps. But by 1949 the Kelly’s is out of date by a decade at least.
Does anyone have an earlier one that can shed some light on ??P? SA?SOM.?
The other thing which haunts me is a memory of the sign outside The Moorland Pedlar at No87 - it was of a Pied Piper sort of chap with a pointed hat I think - we used to have a photograph but it’s disappeared - I’m hoping someone may have a recollection too - even a photo!
John Harding - Sydney - Oz. | |
Weston Worthies - 13 Hannah GOULD
published by - 4 years 7 months 8 days ago. | | I was delighted to read this latest article because Hannah GOULD (nee BEACHAM) and her husband William GOULD were my 5 x Great Grandparents :) So thank you so much for this wonderful research! It has been especially lovely to get such rich details about their life in their cottage which I just imagine what with all the feathers flying about and my 5 X Great Grandfather's wooden leg! I also loved reading on your article Pat, that after William GOULD's death, Hannah was living as a widow along with her granddaughter Maria JONES who, at the age of 13, was living with her as her servant, because Maria JONES was my 3 X Great Grandmother! You describe her as living next door to a tailor. This is interesting because when Maria JONES grew up, she married my 3 x Great Grandfather Sidney JONES who was also a tailor. He had been born in Nether Stowey but moved to Weston, I believe to take up an apprenticeship, so perhaps that's how they met :) | |
Weston Worthies - 13 Hannah GOULD
published by Pat Hase - 4 years 7 months 10 days ago. | | Thank you Peter for the added information about the GOULD family. If anyone else can add to any of the Weston Worthy Profiles I would be happy to receive your comments. They can be seen at http://www.wsmfhs.org.uk/places_view.php?nID=69 | |
Weston Worthies - 13 Hannah GOULD
published by - 4 years 7 months 10 days ago. | | I am not related to Weston Worthy No. 13 Hannah Gould (1761-1844) but I have carried out research for my friend John Gould whose paternal 4xgreat-grandfather, William Gould (c1757-1822), married Hannah Beacham at St John the Baptist church, Weston-super-Mare, on 22 February 1786. The couple had seven children, all born in Weston.
William featured in Ernest Baker's 1822 publication "Historical Notes about the Village of Weston” which included notes of interviews he conducted with various elderly Weston residents. The relevant piece states that "Every day at sunset old William Gould's geese, headed by the gander, would march in from the fields and enter the pen of their own accord. Gould lived in a nearby cottage, and he could often be seen sitting at the door, with his wooden leg thrust out, as he busily plucked geese, often causing a miniature snowstorm down the street"!
William was buried at St John's on 8th June 1822 and left a detailed will which was made on 20 May 1822, only two weeks before William was buried. It therefore seems likely that William decided to make a will because he knew that he was shortly going to die. The will was proven on 27 September 1822 with Hannah being one of the executors. Under the terms of the will, William's house was left to Hannah with the requirement that after her death it should be sold and the proceeds divided up and passed to several of their children. The latter did not include eldest son, William, to whom fishing rights, rods and other fishing materials were left on condition that he should pay £5 per year to his mother, Hannah, for the rest of her life. John Gould, of Milton, a brother of the deceased, was named as a trustee in the will.
The paintings of the Weston Worthies were produced after William's death and so Hannah was a widow when she was painted. She had been born in Worle, but was buried at St John's on 6th September 1844.
William and Hannah's first born son, William Gould (1793-1826), married Ann Vowles at St John's in 1812 and had a son, Edward/Edwin Gould (1816-87), who was the father of my friend's great-grandfather, James Henry Gould, born in Weston in 1845. Like so many people from Somerset in the nineteenth century, James moved to south Wales (in his case, via Bristol) in the 1870s. He died in 1908 in Cardiff where my friend is from and I, a Londoner, now live.
Another of William and Hannah's children - and another of the Weston Worthies - was Ann/Nancy Gould (1786-1861) who married James Burge in Weston in March 1809. Pat Hase's report on the Burge Family - Weston Worthies 04, 05 and 06 - provides much more information, as does an article in the February 2010 issue of Buckets & Spades.
I hasten to add that much of the information I obtained was supplied to me directly or indirectly by Pat Hase and also Society Life Member Brian Austin who were ever so helpful during my research.
Peter
| |
|
Forthcoming Events
|
|
| Library Help Session
Saturday, 5th July, 2025 14:00 - 15:30 | | Physical Members' Meeting
Wednesday, 9th July, 2025 14:30 - 17:00 | | Library Help Session
Monday, 14th July, 2025 10:30 - 13:00 | | Workshop by Zoom: In the footsteps of Hans Fowler Price
Wednesday, 23rd July, 2025 19:30 - 20:30 | | Library Help Session
Monday, 18th August, 2025 10:30 - 13:00 | | <- View calendar for more |
|
|
|
