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Wilding's Wheels
Wilding's Wheels
Photo: Rev David Long
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Item #: 27858
From the Programme for the Standish Bazaar, May 1911.
I've gone back among the ads I missed in the earlier batch to find this one after seeing a pic of his cycle shop among the Standish pics in the Album.
One reason is to ask if anyone knows whether he had a son named Edmund who was killed in WW1. He's on the Peace Gate and the Cenotaph memorials, but I can't identify him on the War Graves site.

Comment by: jackdog on 11th May 2016 at 11:16

Seems that Tom Wilding was single in 1911 and living with his mother Sybil in High St. May have married in 1914, a woman called Lloyd. If so, it seems they had no sons, only two daughters.

Comment by: jackdog on 11th May 2016 at 11:26

There is an Edmund Wilding in Church St on the 1901 census, aged 14. With parents Henry and Jane.

Comment by: Roy on 11th May 2016 at 17:00

Correct Jackdog, Tom Wilding married Cordelia R Lloyd in 1914 in Wigan, their first daughter with the rather fancy name of Olwyn Rowena Elizabeth Cordelia Lloyd Wilding was a teacher at Standish 'Grammar' School on Green Lane, and taught me, and hundreds of other Standish lads in her time, i think every lad in the school could say her full name without hesitation, as you say she only had one sister, both stayed single all their lives. What i cant fathom out is why Olwyn RECL Wildng was born in 1915 in Abergavenny, South Wales and not Standish. I presume the Edmund Wilding that Rev Long is referring to, is probabbly the one in the 1901 census.

Comment by: Loz on 11th May 2016 at 19:03

What is 'Incandescent Goods'? Is that the Hi Vis that we know today?

Comment by: Rev David Long on 11th May 2016 at 19:15

There's a Baptism in St Wilfrid's Registers on LOPC for Edmund W., for 14 November 1886 - 4th son of Henry (collier) and Jane. So that looks like the one. But he's not on the CWGC site - so perhaps the family put his name forward as a war casualty for the Memorial, but the Army didn't judge him so for their purposes (saved them paying his widow a pension).
I've found a few of those on the Standish Memorials.

Comment by: Mick on 11th May 2016 at 19:45

Loz - incandescent goods sounds to me like the old bike lamps, and the carbide they used to fuel them.

Comment by: Ellen on 12th May 2016 at 01:43

Oh my goodness! I too was wondering about "incandescent goods"... I had consigned those carbide lamps to distant memory--and they had been lost!!

Comment by: Linda massa on 12th May 2016 at 06:35

Roy you are absolutely right we all could say her name without hesitation. She was my Guide leader.

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