My grandfather Albert Turner with My Grandmother Agnes. I cannot give the location. Possibly in the entrance of the Loves hotel in Broompark, but i am thinking some other location in Ushaw Moor. No buildings in Broompark had a double door and brickwork like that except perhaps the Loves hotel.???? Albert was a very distinguished gentleman and a very good businessman who lent money and also a collector of fine antiques and collectables.
But also a maker of fine whiskey and loved a drink.
Some said that he was one that could turn a sows ear into a silk purse. But he was a worker and worked his gut out just as the rest.
It may be the entrance of St Lukes' Church
ReplyDeleteThe flower the lady is wearing.......a wedding may be????
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Denise it looks more like a church or chapel entrance, next time I'm in Ushaw moor I shall compare photograph with buildings and update. GREAT PHOTOGRAPH.
ReplyDeleteI know the mans face but I cannot place him.
ReplyDeleteHope i am not confusing people with the 2 different user names. Shouldnt have used westaus. my Grandparents were the first to move to the area and at first lived in a field on the left either just before Relly bridge or just after - heading toward Stonebridge. Albert knew the farmer and had a big caravan there -about 1954. I stayed there on occasion and he had a horse and cart and often drove it down to the Stonebridge inn and if he got drunk he would tell me to drive him home which was no big feat as the horse went home just by shouting home. He would just flake out in the back and then get a bollocking from Grandma as he was only supposed to be going for a couple. Then he moved into Broompark and one of the only 2 houses in those back streets with an upstairs bathroom and flushing toilet. He was also a driver of earthmoving machines such as draglines. He was offered a job working a machine for the Durham council but ended up getting my Dad that job and also us a house in Broompark. Then he put his son Albert junior on to another job and also a house there too.He also ran the bigger allotment with the egg collection shed and passed that on to my dad along with the house with the bathroom as they left and bought a big house in Lancashire Road in Blackpool and turned it into a guest house.
ReplyDeletePerhaps that photo could have been a wedding .? I checked the front of Stonebridge inne from their website and it doesnt seem to be there unless it was the back entrance.
Looks like entrance to st Luke's church
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