| The Andrews Pages Picture Gallery : Derbyshire |
| A selection of photographs, prints and postcards.
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| Darley Dale, Holly Tree Inn, Over Hackney,
about 1914 |
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The charabanc standing outside the Holly Tree Inn has the Registration
Number R 1511 and the vehicle could be a Napier owned by
Hands of Matlock. The group were most probably locals as
some of the faces crop up in other pictures within the site[1].
It is possible they were going to a wedding as
several of them are sporting buttonholes.
The licensee of the Holly Tree at that time was John William
Wilmot. His wife Elizabeth (nee Wood) and young child
are standing beside the vehicle; the baby is likely to be
Joyce L Wilmot who was born in 1914[2].
John William, originally a builder/stonemason by trade, had
taken over the licence from Tom Bridge[3].
William Holmes had been the Inn's landlord for over thirty
three years, from before 1881 until the licence was transferred
to Tom Bridge at Matlock's Brewster Sessions in February
1913[4].
Others who followed on included Mr. Joseph Frederick
Downing[5] and
Edmund Holmes, who was the landlord in 1928[6].
In the 1950s-1960s the Holly Tree was run (owned?) by John
Eric Evans and his wife Dorothy (Allwood)[7].
They were still there in 1977. It is now a private house.
Photographs of the Holly Tree in the
Vernon Lamb Archive
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Photograph of the Holly Tree Inn, about 1914.
Photograph in the collection of and provided by and © the
Bridge family of Canada. With thanks to Bob Morton and Barbara
and Debbie, both nee Bridge, and to Dale (Bridge) Williams.
Researched, written by and © Ann Andrews.
Intended for personal use only.
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References (coloured
links are to transcripts or more information elsewhere on this
web site):
[1] See, for example, VLA4934 and VLA4960 taken
outside the Three Horseshoes at Lea.
[2] John William Wilmot was shown
in both the
1891 census and the
1901 census for Matlock. He was still living with his widowed
stepmother on Osborne Terrace, Smedley St West in 1911. He married
Elizabeth Wood at Derby St. Thomas later that year. By 1939 they
were living on Edge Road and he was a Journeyman Builder. He
passed away on 10 Feb 1985.
[3] See Matlock:
Thomas Stephen Bridge & his Family, 19th & 20th Century
[4] See William Holmes listed in the
transcript of Kelly's
Directory of Darley, 1891
[5] "Belper News", 8 January
1937. Announcement of his death at his home, Spring Cottage,
Hackney.
[6] "Kelly's Directory of
Derbyshire",
1928.
[7] This information is from Bob Morton.
Susan (Evans) Warner told him that she visited her many cousins
there. |
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