Cards from Jack Townsend to his mother and sister Dora 20-6-1942
- BCA - 2021.3052
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- 1942
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Cards from Jack Townsend to his mother and sister Dora 20-6-1942
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Gladys Amy Townsend and sister Ethel Mary Townsend (Frank Hudson's mother) at Elephant and Castle
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L-R Doris and Cecil Robinson (Frank Hudson's godfather) and Ethel Mary Townsend (Frank's mother)
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To Ethel and Gladys from Albert, below to Albert from daugher Ethel
Postcards sent to their Daddy, Albert Townsend, in WWI by Gladys, Jack and Albert (always known as Son or Sonner) Townsend.
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Albert Townsend's horse drawn carriage service which he ran from Castle View Farm on Bridge Street. He particularly took people to and from Bampton railway station which was about 2 miles outside Bampton on the edge of what is now RAF Brize Norton. He was very enterprising having one of the first, if not the first lorries in Bampton which he used to collect coal from the station for selling. This lorry would be scrubbed spotless, seats fastened to the floor and the children from the Methodist Sunday school taken for a day trip to Savernake Forest for a treat once a year. He also farmed, first keeping pigs behind the Elephant and Castle when he had the license there and then with other farming aspects when he moved across the road to Castle View Farm.
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