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From: "Ady. Redfern." <>
Subject: Re: [STS] Location query.
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:39:52 +0100


Hi Bevan,

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my query, and for the great info
you supplied.
Do you by chance know if I could purchase a copy of this book say from Leek
?
( Next time I am down that way )
Thanks again

Ady - In Sunny Blackpool.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bevan Craddock" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: [STS] Location query.


> Ady
>
> In "Elkstones" - A Miscellany of Stories, Memories and Pictures - compiled
> by members of the Elkstonians, is recorded an article about a Snow Tragedy
> at Elkstones in December 1906, where there is a record of the Inquest into
> the death of Hannah Hulme who died in a snowdrift. One of the witnesses
at
> the inquest was Tom Swindells of HILL HOUSE FARM, ELKSTONE. There is a
> photograph of Hill House Farm in the winter in the book There is also a
> photograph of "This Alpine Garden at HILL HOUSE FARM was tended with
loving
> care by Mrs Edna Ash"
>
> In the 1908 Elkstone Register, Tom and Sam Swindell are listed as living
at
> Hill House. In 1892 Tom Leech is listed in Elkstone Parish Register as
> living at Hill House, Upper Elkstone. In 1894 Thomas Leach was one of the
> first members of Warslow and Elkstones Parish Council.
>
> I have no doubt that HILL HOUSE is still in existence today just off Well
> Lane to the south of Upper Elkstone which leads to Under the Hill and the
> spring. A Tumuli is close by.
>
> Bevan
>
> Bevan Craddock
> Hon. Treasurer
> Staffordshire History (A local history Journal in its 16th year of
> publication)
> c/o Community Council of Staffordshire
> Friars Mill
> Friars Terrace
> Stafford
> ST17 4DX
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ady. Redfern. <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 8:36 PM
> Subject: [STS] Location query.
>
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Can anyone confirm if a place called FELTHOUSE, Grindon, Staffordshire
> still exists ?
> > ( Please excuse my ignorance, but is this place a building or a location
> ? )
> > Also, does HILLHOUSE, Upper Elkstone, Staffordshire still exist ?
> >
> > Many Thanks - Ady Redfern.
> >
> > Looking for Redferns.
> >
> >
>
>

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