We've been contacted by Ben Mckenzie who would like information on the postcard below.
Ben say's that the postcard was sent from Hyde in 190? - last digit is not clear. In the top left hand corner is written Godley Val? - difficult to read the letters. It was addressed to Elizabeth Howard Taylor and the writer asked if she recognized anyone in the photograph.
Left Side Of Card
Right Side Of Card
Any background information would be most welcome.
I feel i recognise that building in the background but cannot place where it is.It's got a very distinctive shaped roof,hasn't it !
ReplyDeleteIt looks to me like the roof of the Bankfield, but I don't see that it could possibly be so.
ReplyDeleteIt does indeed, Dave ! from the angle it could be from the top of Grange Road North (fairbrother street) as that is a big hill/incline and you would look down on it.... interesting... to the maps I go ;)
ReplyDeleteWell I think that the man on the extreme left (top picture) looks like Buffalo Bill!
ReplyDeleteYour post of 25 August 2010 on the Bankfield quotes Thomas Middleton as saying there were pleasure gardens behind the original hotel. If the roof was unchanged when it got its new look, then the Bankfield could well be the place.
ReplyDeleteIt is the Bankfield looking down from where Tinker's Passage is. Taken about 1902.
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ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to put a damper on the Bankfield theory, but much as it looks like it, there are quite a few differences to consider.
ReplyDeleteThere is some lattice type tiling on the Bankfield, none on this
The large chimney behind is different.
There appears to be some kind of opening in the tower on the post, I can't see any on the Bankfield.
There is no sign of the other chimney at the back.
I can't possibly see location for the group of people.
The only point for it is the location nearby of Godley vale
I'm reminded of a grave yard, what look like chimney's on the left of the picture might be monuments or fancy gravestones that seemed to be popular back then. If the building on the right is a chapel.. we can forget having something to compare it with as Tameside Council will have had it demolished by now.... :O)
ReplyDeleteWhere exactly is Godley Vale? I can't find it on current maps but the 1910 OS map shows Godley Vale House at the point where Vale Avenue meets Sheffield Road. Could the building in question be Godley Vale House?
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the roof of the Bankfield by the way. It actually has a series of triangular-shaped projections just less than halfway down from the apex.
Barry in Oz. I have blown up the centre part of the photo and the background buildings appear to me to be elaborate gravestones or tombs. I also note that many of the females are dressed in black with black hats.
ReplyDeleteThe conical roof of the building on the right isn't dissimilar to the now departed cemetery chapel.
ReplyDeleteIs that a blemish on the photo, or is there an enormous pair of knickers hanging from the tree at the top of the photo in the middle?
ReplyDeleteTrust you to notice them, Dave lol
ReplyDeleteRe the knickers in the tree.
ReplyDeleteIf that really is Buffalo Bill on the left, perhaps the bloomers belong to Annie Oakleaf :-)
Where was the postcard sent from? If not known, where does the owner of the postcard live at present?
ReplyDeleteHaha @ Bills comment.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I meant where was the postcard being sent in the uk.
ReplyDeleteWhile this is nothing to do with the postcard, I thought the following might be of interest regarding some of your older post. I don't use the blog but my son Matthew was questioning me about the owners of some now demolished farms. From my records I can tell you that in the early 1900's the following farmes were owned by:-
ReplyDeleteNewton House Farm, Moses Chadwick; Bradley Green Farm, Sarah Barnes; Harbour Farm, Arthur Andrew; and Leigh Fold Farm, John Bagshaw. Most of these families farmed their land until at least the time of the first world war.
Thank you for that informative comment... I'll make a note of this for future posts.... great comments on this post and Dave and Bill's comments had me chuckling..
ReplyDeleteI also think that the building on the left is Godley Vale house which stood on the corner of Sheffield Rd and and what is now Brookside Close. The house on the right could be Brookside.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jenny.. I will try to find you a map which shows the co-op cottages as soon as I can.
ReplyDeleteHi Tom. I have now found the location of the Co-op cottages! Thanks anyway
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