Slide 14 - In the Drawing Room, which we now enter, is a somewhat florid example of an 18th century mantelpiece in various coloured marbles. Over this is a painting which according to an accompanying tablet states it is a portrait of the Honourable…
L - R at back: Winifred Holt (sister of groom), Jim or Joe Mahony (brother of the bride), Derick Holt (groom), Peggy Mahony (bride), Joe or Jim (bride's brother), Annie Mahony (bride's sister), Bernard Holt (groom's brother). Seated L - R: Fanny Holt…
Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt is standing on the left. He was in the 2/10 Manchester Regiment. He enlisted in 1916 whilst living and working as a printer/compositor in Manchester. His mother and his wife's family lived in Luddenden, where they had…
Seated: John Mahoney and wife Maggie (nee O'Rourke). Standing at back L - R: Joe, Annie, Jim, Jack, Mary and Margaret Mary (Peggy) standing next to her mother.
Claude Served with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in the first world war. He is in uniform here so this was possibly taken in about 1915. He would have been 18 in 1915 and Gladys would have been 21 and Monica 15.
Claude and Ada Mary Longbottom (née Cockcroft) sitting on the right with their sons Philip and Maurice (in front).This would have been taken in the mid-thirties., Philip would have been 13 and Maurice 9 in 1935. Back L-R Philip and Claude Longbottom…