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- Mr & Mrs William Aldridge c.1940s - (BS0524) Note the old Simmons beer sign outside the Farmer’s Man
BS0524 Willian Aldridge Bike Wife
- Bert Passey (centre) with his scrapyard vehicles - (BS0525) c.1950 across Brook Street by Wisteria Cottage. Who are the other two family members?
BS0525 Bert Passey Scrapmerchant Vehicles Brook Street Wisteria Cottage
- A picnic in the garden of Mr Haines's "Summer House" - (BS0526) Thought to be about 1928 (See “Benson, A Century of Change” page 27). The cottage and garden were beside the Old Coalyard, where office of Waterfront boat-hiring office is in 2010.
picnic river Haines Coalyard
- Ned Passey on Pennyfarthing c.1953 - (BS0528) See “Benson – A Century of Change” page 236 and Appendix C. The Club still rides the bikes (2010) on the 2nd Sunday of each July.
BS0528 Ned Passey Pennyfarthing
- Mary Passey and Tony Cook - (BS0529) Photographed on 30 April 1962 in Brook Street - opposite Farmers Man.
BS0529 Mary Passey Tony Cook Brook opp Farmers Man 30Apr1962
- Millstream - Bert Rye's retirement - (BS0532) Peter Rose making the presentation. See Chapter 8 of “Benson – A Century of Change”
BS0532 Presentation Rose Bert Rye
- Millstream Surgery - foundation laying - (BS0543) Doctors Anne Millar & Peter Rose with children from Benson School in 1986. These children had carried out a project on buildings and visited the site during development. The children buried a time-capsule on the site.
BS0543 Drs Rose Millar Millstream foundation laying
- Millstream Surgery - foundation laying - (BS0543s) 1. unknown, although someone suggested Bobbie Beale 2. [unknown girl] 3. Claire Ackerman 4. Andrew Winton 5. Unknown boy 6. Anne Millar 7. Peter Rose 8. Louise Busby 9. Sarah Howard 10. Sarah Screene
BS0543 sil
- Revd George Palmer’s and Nora’s Golden Wedding – Apr 89 - (BS0556) Inez Taylor on left, but who is on the right?
BS0556 Palmer's Golden Wedding Celebrations
- Amy Clarkson, Head Librarian 19??- 19?? - (BS0557)
BS0557 Library Amy Clarkson
- Robert George Stephen Dixon(1898 – 1978) - (BS1442) Gladys (his daughter) said he came from Dorchester. He married Beatrice Annie Mumford and they had 6 children, one of whom died as a baby. Gladys Hodgins was their third daughter and lives on Sunnyside, This part of the Mumford family appear to have stayed in and around Benson. Beatrice was the sister of Arthur Mumford, from the War Memorial, and Gladys was his niece born in 1926 so she didn’t know him
BS1442

A Century of Change: 1900-2000

Adults