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Can you help us to identify the gentlemen in this
postcard?
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The postcard was one of several
passed to us for possible inclusion in
the forthcoming book, however the owner (Basil
Gowen) does not know who the people are and asked if we
could find out.
All we know is that the postcard was written from Thorpe Hamlet on 15 Aug
1912.
If you have any ideas please contact us.
Mystery solved?
Diane
Heffernan writes
I was
looking at your website as I am researching my family who lived in Thorpe
Hamlet at one time. I noticed the postcard with the two gentlemen on that
you were asking if anyone knew who they were. I don't know them, but I
enlarged and rotated the postcard and made out the address (upside down at
the top) which is "7 Cozens Road, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich". I then fed this
information into Find My Past in the 1911 census. The family living there in
1911 were Osborn Rumsby (who appears to have signed the postcard), his wife,
Anna, son William aged 9. Also living there were his wife's father, John
Meek aged 62, nephew Robert Edward Houchin aged 6, and brother in law,
Albert Edward Houchin.
The recipient of the postcard is also on the 1911 census at the address on
the card, living with his widowed mother, Mary Ann Lincoln, and his sister,
Martha.
You may already have this information but, if not, I hope it may be helpful
to you.
And we have more
information from Tom Foxe
Hi, I got on your site by accident
and saw a photo of two bearded men which was one side of a postcard
written from 7 Cozens Rd. I enlarged the photo and I think it is taken
in front of no. 11 Railway Cottages. It's difficult to be certain as
the cottages are not in the picture, it would be looking across two
gardens at the corner of Cozens Rd and Railway Cottages.
The cottages all have a wooden
paling at the back like that in the picture, and the building in the
background looks like the Gothic Works at the Lawrence and Scott
factory on Hardy Road. Train spotters often come to Railway Cottages
to see steam trains when they pass, and in times past they would all
have been steam trains so it was probably more popular, and the spot
would be only 50 yards from 7 Cozens Rd. The gardens today are more
mature with shrubbery & trees so you probably wouldn't see the Gothic
Works from there now.
Another contributor to your website
said her family were all railway workers & asked about a "Railway
Area" The Railway Cottages were built c1840 for the railway workers,
though I don't understand why some of them are now addressed Cozens Rd
and some Hardy Rd as they were built before the other houses on these
roads ! I believe the detached house, no 10 Hardy Rd was built for the
construction boss, whatever his position was.
The original Victorian iron railing
on the railway at Railway cottages was removed in recent years and
replaced by an inferior galvanised modern railing, which I thought a
disgrace, as our houses are listed and we are not allowed to change
the appearance without listed planning permission.
I don't think they bothered to ask
anyone for permission, I think they should have had an identical iron
railing made, the new one detracts from the period look of the railway
cottages. A smart builder got hold of a gate out of the old railing, &
put it up in the garden of no 9 Railway Cottages where it looks very
smart and quite the part.
I hope this may be helpful to you,
Regards Tom Foxe, 7 Railway Cottages
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Hamlet Playgroup in 1969 outside the old Crome Centre, now the Thorpe Hamlet
First School. © S Keith
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