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Dave Blower
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CLIFF,THANKS FOR THAT.THE PHOTO IS DEFINITLEY THE LODGE AT GOLDINGS OF WHICH I WILL SEND YOU OTHER PHOTOS IN VARIOUS YEARS AFTER YOURS WHICH SHOWS THE SAME,BUT IF YOU LOOK TO THE LEFT OF THE BUILDING AT THE WOODWORK THERE IS THE SAME SHAPE IN THE CENTRE OF THE GABLE.I HAVE A PHOTO OF THE LODGE WHEN IT WAS THATCHED,WHICH I WILL SEND YOU.
GUESSING AT THIS STAGE I THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN WHEN BARNARDOS TOOK OVER THE MANSION IN 1921,BECAUSE EKINS WERE THE LOCAL BUILDERS IN HERTFORD,AND PERHAPS THEY HAVE REPLACED THE THATCH.THE LADY STANDING BY THE LODGE AGAIN I WOULD SAY THE 20S,BY HER HAT AND THE LENGTH OF HER SKIRT,BECAUSE UP TO AND JUST AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR SKIRTS HAD TO COVER THE ANKLES.WE ALSO HAVE A FORMER GOLDINGS BOY IN AUSTRALIA BOB,WHO ALSO WAS A PRINTER PERHAPS HE MAY SHED LIGHT VIA BARNARDOS AUSTRALIA
SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO BOB,AS WE ARE TRYING TO TRACE HIS GRANDFATHER.CAN ANY OF OUR FORMER PRINTERS HELP PLEASE REFER TO CLIFFS PREVIOUS MESSAGE ON THE GUEST BOOK..DAVE.
(THIS PICTURE SENT IN BY CLIFF WILL BE OUR NEXT FRONT PAGE SHORTLY)
20 August 2006
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Cliff Welham
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Dave,
Thanks for your email. Attached (hopefully) is a photograph of Goldings sent to my father's brother in Australia I would imagine after the Great War 1914-1918. My Australian cousin gave it to me when we visited her some year ago. Written on the back it says 'The Lodge' Goldings.
Please feel free to print any of this information in your Guest Book and lets hope we get some feed back.
Regards Cliff Welham
20 August 2006
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Dave
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Thanks Bob anything you can send is greatly appreciated. you know we Goldings boys can't get enough photographs or stories
Keep in touch
Dave
18 August 2006
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Bob Robertson
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Saw the bit about exhibition at Hertford we are moving to a new factory during the move I found the setting stick that Trevor Powell gave me still in the original box also the eye glass Bill Purkiss gave me when I left to go to my first job at Welwyn Garden City that was 47 years ago in November. Time goes by we have been married 47 years on 14 November. Got a few photos( photocopies) from Barnardos today only one was of me I will post them when they send originals
17 August 2006
- Sunny Australia
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Cliff Welham
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Dear Mr Blower,
We have been looking with great interest at Goldings website. My grandfather Alfred Edwin Welham worked as a Print Minder at Goldings sometime between 1922 and 1926 and lived at The Lodge. We have an old family photograph with the words 'The Lodge Goldings' written on the back but it does not appear the same Lodge as shown in your picture gallery. Do you know if there were more than one Lodge. In some of the family documents his residence is referred to as Hertford Lodge.
In 1991 we had a letter from Barnardos Research Officer telling us that Mr Ron Stackwood, also at some time in charge of the Print Shop, remembered Alfred Welham as his bible class teacher at Christchurch in Hertfordshire in the 30's. Barnardos had no more information on Alfred.
Would you be interested in a copy of our photograph of The Lodge Goldings?
17 August 2006
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