Inside Peel Tower and some pictures from the top

These are the pictures from the Peelers event. if you return to the original blogsite - more information!
Doorway onto the balcony

Halfway up misty breath!

Don't look up

Or Down!

Just below the top

Looking up the Valley towards Ramsbottom

Bull Hill on the left

Looking to the left of Bull Hill

Towards Bury from the South

Looking down from the top

And again!

Looking down!

Closer to the bottom

The door to the balcony

The last corner before the bottom,
It seemed colder and stiller here for some reason

The first step up!

Almost at the bottom

Bull hill in the distance.
Legend tells that there was a gibbet at the top -
But no evidence has ever been found!

Looking back towards Peel Tower,
Other runners following me!

I think the remains of Grants tower are over there.
That is the Irwell valley. After the turn round place at Helmshore
the route took us back via Summerseat.

St Paul's Marton

At the bottom of this file are some more photos of the church as well as the Picken monument in the grounds.

The Small granite plaque on the wall facing the memorial says:
"This stone was laid
by J. P. DIXON ESQ. J.P.
of the Mount Marton
on
June 27th 1808"

The inscription on the Memorial reads:
THIS CROSS,
THE GIFT OF MR. & MRS J.P. DIXON
OF "THE MOUNT"
IS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN PROUD MEMORY OF
THESE MARTON MEN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919

The names are below:
A. Ashbridge
H. Ashworth
W. Atkinson
T. Bailey
J. Ball
H. Birchall
J. Bickerstaffe
C. Blackhurst
W. Blaylock
J. Boardman
R. Boardman
T. Boardman
H. Bowden
J. Bowden
U. Braithwaite
R. Bamber
J. W. Cardwell
C. Cardwell
F. Cardwell
F. J. Cardwell
P. Cardwell
H. Cardwell
T. Cardwell
T. Cardwell(2)
W. Cardwell
W. H. Cardwell
J. H. Cookson
E. B. Dixon
A. A. Dochard
J. Fisher
H. Fitzgerald
W. Foulds
H. Harland
T. Hall
T. Hill
J. W. Hornby
A. Irving
J. Irving
F. S. Johson
E. Leeming
H. Lightbown
J. Lund
R. P. Moister
R. Myerscough
N. Robey
G. Rawcliffe
J. Stirzaker
E. Sanderson
R. Sanderson
A. Stafford
J. Singleton
J. Threlfall
G. Topping
R. Topping
G. Wade
R. Wade
J. Wade
H. J. Warren
P. H. Warren
S. Waddington
T. Whiteside
J. Whiteside

Looking towards the Boars Head from the church Grounds

Looking from the Picken Memorial

The Picken Memorial

No Pews!

The Altar separated by a glass screen

The Organ

Another view of the church interior

Another view of the memorial

Great Bedwyn

These are the inscriptions on the War Memorial.

Great War 1914 -1918
R.S.M H. J. Bartholomew D.C.M.
Sergt. W. T. Bushnell
Cpl. J. Biggs
Bombr. F. A. Lovelock
L. Cpl. A. E. Broadway
C. C. Bull
F. Cope
A. E. French
J. L. Gigg
L. M. Williams
C. J. Skippence
J. Goodman
E. C.(G?) Lovelock
F.C. Bushnell    Wilts
F. H. Edwards    Wilts
A. C. Hatter       M. C. C. (M. G. G.)
H. G. Hatter       London Scottish
W. J. R. Hoare     R. Berks
A. Hunt              R. F.
F. Hunt             Wilts
L. Hart              Wilts
H. Mills             Wilts
F. W. Rodgers    K S L I
G. J. Stagg         Wilts
G. Webster        RMI
T. Webster         Devons

There are also inscriptions behind the central column which I did not photograph - Don't know why?

On the front of the column is the list of the fallen in the Second World War
R.F Burgess  Acting P/O R.N.
F.J. Cambridge  M.N.
T. P. Baker        M.N.
W. T. G Cope  STOKER P/O
J. A. Collier   C.S.M. Wiltshire Regt.
R.E.F. Ruen   Cpl R. Berkshire Regt.
W.A. Grace    Sapper  R.E.
D. McLeod Craik  F/O   R.A.F.
P.A.D. Lawrence  Sgt A/C R.A.F.
D.E.L. Trench   F/LT    RAF
W.J. Hart   F/Sgt  R.A.F.

These are a collection of pictures in the Great Bedwyn Churchyard that I believed may have been related to my wife's Mills Family, The names include Pocock, Lovelock and Mills. It seems that none of the Mills are directly related to my wife's family, even if the names and the dates are almost right! The Mills family are rather large. Pococks and Lovelocks are directly related so a lot of teasing out information here!
Samuel William Pocock

Samuel Pocock,  Mary Tuckwell


Charles Lovelock

Fanny Mills, Ellen Alna Wilmott, John and Charlotte Wilmott

Tristian Robert Lovelock


Frederick Thomas Lovelock

Elsie Mary Lovelock & Richard Lovelock

Ellen Mills, Edward Walter Mills, Edward A. J. Mills, Reginald Ernest Mills

Maurice Lovelock

Lawrence Lovelock

Raymond Arthur Lovelock

Kenneth Frederick Lovelock

Pat Lomax who became Pat Martyn-Clark - my mother

The early days: More pictures will be added as they get scanned!
Pat in fancy dress

Pat with Granny Max (Hannah Yoxhall)

Pat with Granny Max

Pat with Granny Max

Pat with her mother - Jane Lomax nee Dunn

Pat with her Mother

Pat with her Mother

Pat with Tom Lomax her father - Grandpa Tom at Ashwood Park. I think Ashwood Park must be the one at near Durham. Family friends lived at Hartlepool, Tom went to work as a Borough Surveyor in West Hartlepool.

Pat and a Parrot