Walkern National School

Historic information on Walkern National School

The picture is a copy of the plans for the extension to Walkern Village School in 1877

The Osbourne's Early Married Life

Detailed Accounts from the Osbourne Family Archives regarding their 1939 touring honeymoon, their first furniture purchases and an inventory of the household contents.

When Mr. and Mrs. Osbourne were married in July, 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War,

they embarked on a touring honeymoon and their outgoings for the honeymoon were meticulously recorded by Mr. Osbourne and that social document has been kept in the family archives, together with records of expenditure etc. during the first few months of their marriage. Details of these are given

below:-

HONEYMOON -

Hire of Car £1. 0. 0

HOTELS

Lygon Arms £4. 5.11

Devonshire Arms £1. 0.10

UIlswater £8.17. 6

Craven Arms £1. 3. 0

Luttrell Arms £1.10.11

New Inn £2. 5. 0

Seymour £1.13.11

Manor £1.14. 4

Petrol - 35 galls.@ 1/7 (1493

miles)!!! £1.16.11

Tips say £2. 0. 0

Odds and Ends £5.11. 8

Total cost of Honeymoon £33. 0. 0

SUMMARY OF INVOICE FROM WARING & GILLOW FOR NEW FURNITURE

P.L.Osbourne 12th June, 1939

1 4' Light Walnut Wardrobe,

Dressing Table to match and

fitted Gent's Wardrobe to match £44. 5. 0

4'6" Walnut bedstead £8. 8. 0

A"Stanhope" settee and

2 easy chairs £25.15.0

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1939 INVENTORY OF HOUSE CONTENTS AT 11 ULVERSTON ROAD, LONDON E.17

(perhaps compiled in case of possible bomb damage)

Maples Dining Room suite £42. 4. 0

Bedroom suite £52.13. 0

Lounge suite £25.15. 0

Slumberland mattress £8. 8. 0

Slumberland base £2.17. 0

Bedroom stool & chairs £5. 7. 6

Curtains (kitchen & bathroom) 8/7d

Rug 16/11d

Carpet and felt £ 9. 9. 0

Blankets £5.13. 5

Pillows 15/2d

Stair clips & screws 8/4d

Tools - Screwdriver, gimlet and

ruler 3/-d

Mirror, hallstand, fire irons, coal

box, medicine cabinet £7.15. 3

Curtains, bedspread and

eiderdowns £8.11. 9

Ironmongery - pail, broom,

brush, dustpan, stain,

brushes, nails, etc. 4/-

Paint etc. for bathroom 7/6d

Stain 3/6d

Mappin & Webb cutlery £11. 7. 4

Door chain 2/9d

Towel rail, rawlplugs, turps. £4. 11. 0

Secotine, plate rack, soap dis,

splash plate 4/6d

Lamp shzades, wireless table,

fly swat £2. 0. 0

Saw 2/6d

A Funeral , Bangalore, India 1918

A series of photos of a funeral party and burning

A T Scrivens was in India with the Army in WW1 and he took the attached in October 1918

1 - Funeral Party of dead woman on way to place of burning. The pot carried by leading man contains burning manure from which the pyre will be ignited.

2 - The corpse placed near the wood on which it is to be burned, note features of woman.

3 - Building the pyre: note, all wrappings now removed from body, simply dressed in everyday clothes

4 - Brahmin repeating prayers etc. before the pyre is lighted.

5 - Burning! Brooks took this in order that Dick Wort might be in it. Its quite a good photo of Dick.

6 - The result! No remarks needed. You'll probably make lots yourself!

The Juggernaut, Bangalore , India May 1918

Photos of The Juggernaut taken April or May 1918 Ulsoor, Bangalore, India.

A T Scrivens photos while in India with the army in WW1

A T Scrivens photos of Belgaum, India 1917-1918

Phots as Belgaum, India

A T Scrivens was sent out to India in 1917 .

Notice people washing in the background at the lake.

The elephant is refered to as a cockroach!

Scene of Crime

My visit to The Somerset Studies Library in Taunton and Evershot Dorset

Last year I went to The Somerset Studies Library where I found all the newspaper reports of the trial and subsequent hanging of my 5 x great grandfather on 28th March 1795. Last week I visited the village of Evershot in Dorset where he robbed the draper's shop. You can still just about see the name of the owner Grace Kellaway painted on the brickwork, although it looks as if another name has been put over the top of the original. If only she hadn't been unwell that night and kept a candle alight in her bedroom, my grandfather and his two accomlices might have got away with the burglary. As it was by the time they got back to Chideock with the spoils it was getting light and they were seen and arrested some days later. It's amazing that after more than 200 years you can just about read the shop sign!

My first bike

I remember getting my first bike. It was a metallic purple colour and it had stabilisers. I must have been 5 years old.

I loved the bike as it gave me a whole new sense of freedom and independence. Once I got rid of the stabilisers I used to cycle around our garden, my mother always stressing to me that I wasn’t to venture out of sight. We lived at the top of a very steep hill and one day my friend, a neighbour around my own age, and I were being a bit rebellious and we decided that we would take our bikes down the hill in front of my house. We managed to get down the hill but on the way back I fell off. I ended up with 7 stitches in my chin and a huge cut on my knee. I still have the scars. I got a week off school and I wasn’t allowed down the hill on my bike until I got a lot older.

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Wonderful toy by Cesca

One of my favourite toys when I was young was a blackboard that my granddad had made for me and my brothers.

Even though I've never been the greatest artist, I used to spend ages drawing on the blackboard and even got very excited when I got boxes of multi-coloured chalk in my stocking at Christmas!

Both my mother and I are left-handed and she always used to tell me how difficult it is for left-handed people to write neatly, so I made it my mission to practice my handwriting on my blackboard, dreaming that I was a teacher in a classroom full of children. I remember my mum coming into my room one day and saying how impressed she was with my hand-writing, which made me very happy.

The blackboard is still in my parent's garage to this day, wrapped up in plastic, waiting until I have a left-handed child so I can give it to them to practice their handwriting on.

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Memories of childhood toys by Jackie

My father, who worked with metal, made my brother a red and black crane with a turning turret mecanno winding mechanism.

His [my brother's] name was painted on the side in yellow. My brother passed it on to his son, who only has daughters, but who knows in this era may be a lady engineer.

I remember playing shops with all kinds of small items using three cornered paper, rolled up and screwed round at the pointed ends, filled with sultanas and peas.

We had a sled which my father made us but it didn’t seem to snow enough.

During and after the war dolls were very hard to come by and so when you were deemed old enough, these were passed on to cousins etc with new knitted doll’s clothes from whatever spare wool they could get their hands on.

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Connie Conker and Tommy Tortoise by jackie

My mother made her granddaughter “Connie Conker” and “Tommy Tortoise”.

Connie was made from a large conker for the body and a smaller one for the head. Then a material hood and cape were glued on and matchsticks for arms and legs. Tommy was made similarly from a large acorn and a small acorn (with the end still on to serve as a hat). Likewise, matchsticks for legs. These had matchbox beds.

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