Obituaries of noted Accringtonians.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

The link is throwing a 404 up G. but I can only think she was appearing at the Hippodrome in accy which was near the bus depot, be beggared if I can remember the street name, could it be Argyle Street

Sorry.

On Firefox it shows, and still takes you to her obituary in the Times.

If you Google her name and Accrington, it mentions in several obituaries that her first paid acting job was in Accy, though it doesn't say where that was.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

Sorry.

On Firefox it shows, and still takes you to her obituary in the Times.

If you Google her name and Accrington, it mentions in several obituaries that her first paid acting job was in Accy, though it doesn't say where that was.

Ya I'm using E8 thought it might be something to do with there payment for online use now

[garinda]

Frederick James (Jim) Feather - Actor.

Born Accrington 1920.

Died Ontario, Canada 2010.

Jim Feather - IMDb

Frederick James "Jim" Feather Obituary: View Frederick Feather's Obituary by Toronto Star

[garinda]

Joseph Eccles - cricketer.
Born 1863 Accrington - 1933.

ECCLES, MR. JOSEPH, died on September 2, 1933, aged 70, at Barton near Preston in Lancashire. Born at Accrington on April 13, 1863, he played for the county from 1886 to 1889. In 1887 he scored 677 runs in all matches with an average of 33, his best score being 113 at Cheltenham. In the following season, when he made 184 against Surrey at the Oval and 97 against Middlesex at Lord's, he headed the Lancashire averages with 27 for an aggregate of 525 runs. He was in the Gentlemen's Eleven which won at Lord's by 5 runs, the last four Players--Attewell, Peel, Lohmann and Flowers--falling at one total to C. Aubrey Smith and S. M. J. Woods.
Wisden - Obituaries in 1935

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/...t/player/12601.

Lancashire Cricket Archive

[garinda]

PROFESSOR R.P. JEPSON

Born Accrington 1918 - 1980.

http://health.adelaide.edu.au/surger.../RP_Jepson.pdf

[Bob Dobson]

Herbert Gladstone WRIGHT lived 1888-1962. He attended Accrington Grammar School and became a professor of English at Bangor University. He was an editor and translator of 77 books

[garinda]

Law, Miss A., F.R.S.L., The Old Parsonage, Altham, Accrington

Cambridge Journals Online - Fulltext

Can't find anything about this woman...yet, other than she was listed as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Did find this, which relates to Altham.

In 1926 Chopin's Tempo Rubato was published by a firm called The Old Parsonage Press, Altham, Accrington.

JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie

[garinda]

Originally Posted by garinda

I do have to keep using the search facility on here...to make sure you haven't already mentioned them!

As was the case with cricketer Reginald Hargreaves (1852 - 1926), born at Oakhill Park.

You corrected the statement that he didn't live there with his wife Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, in this thread.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...fame-2164.html

Reginald Hargreaves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reginald Hargreaves | England Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

Alice Liddell was Alice in Wonderland

Incidentally I worked in the costume department on the 1985 film Dreamchild, written by Dennis Potter, and starring Coral Browne, which was based on Alice Liddell's life.

Came across this last week.

The scenes I worked on as wardrobe assistant, in the 1985 film Dreamchild. Filmed in St. George's Hall, Liverpool. Which was meant to be Columbia University, and where Alice Liddell was awarded an honorary doctorate.
Dreamchild (1985) - IMDb

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[garinda]

Major Norman Nuttall - (born 1893 Accrington, Lancs, died 18 Sept 1944.)

Employed by local cloth printer and dyer and just before WW1 was seconded to their Karachi 'office'. On outbreak of war, family folk lore has it that he joined local 'Balukistan' regiment and served out duration as a Captain in (undivided) India. Photos survive in military attire, including a WW2 oil portrait that shows him wearing 1914-18 medal ribbon and another before it, presumably that which he would have earned out in India.
Major Norman Nuttall - Karachi 1914-1818 - Great War Forum

[garinda]

Captain George Edge - Sea Captain/author.

Born 1905. Educated Accrington Grammar School.

http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/medonedge.html

[Bob Dobson]

Robert Tasker: I cannot point you to the obituary for this Accrington ironworker, but I draw your attention to the thread ' The Wringer Mangle'

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I actually met Wilfred Pickles and Mabel (she wore a fur coat).
He was doing a live radio show at Ossy town hall circa 1947, and took time in the day to visit Mount Pleasant Primary School.
He asked us to sing for him, so we sang My Darling Clementine.

If you wonder how I can remember such past detail - just detox your brain

Margaret,would that be Mount Pleasant Clayton -le- moors

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by claytonx

Margaret,would that be Mount Pleasant Clayton -le- moors

No -Mount Pleasant Ossy
..the confusion arises because the name of the school is really Hippings Methodist, but was commonly known as Mount Pleasant

[garinda]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

No -Mount Pleasant Ossy
..the confusion arises because the name of the school is really Hippings Methodist, but was commonly known as Mount Pleasant

My Dad remembered that visit to the school too.

It was to record Have a Go.

There's an audio clip of the Have a Go show on here.

Wilfred Pickles | The Radio Academy

Have a Go

[cashman]

Cheers rindy, a long time since i heard "Have A Go" intro.