Wigan Album
War Memorials
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Photo: Rev David Long
Item #: 31297
The feat will be repeated from 6pm this evening to mark the centenary of the Peace, and the historic Peal.
To coincide with the centenary, the Imperial War Museum's entry for this commemoration went online today on its Memorials Register site(ref. 84018).
Tommy Grounds, Joe Gray, Bob Taylor
Was T and JW Grounds related to Horace Grounds who lived in Smalley St? Horace's grave in St.Wilfrid's is incribed, ' A Bellringer of this Parish'.
Poet, this information may answer your question. From St Wilfrid's registers on line at Lancashire Online Parish Clerk Project :
Baptism: 23 Feb 1919 St Wilfrid, Standish, Lancs.
Horace Grounds - 1st son of James William Grounds & Margaret
Born: 10 Jan 1919
Abode: Gidlow Colliery Cottages
Occupation: Overlooker
Baptised by: G. A. Ward Curate
Register: Baptisms 1911 - 1943, Page 108, Entry 860
Source: Original Register
Many thanks John. I very much appreciate your time and trouble. Sweet were those
days when skills were passed from father to son.
I'll be seeing a friend of mine tonight, a Standish lad whom Horace encouraged and taught to ring, and, is still ringing to this day at 79 years of age.
Poet, Tommy Grounds was Horace's uncle, Horace and family lived at 25 Bradley Lane and not Smalley St.
No problem, poet. From looking at St Wilfrid's baptism register (online at Lancashire Online Parish Clerk Project) it seems that Tommy Grounds and James William were brothers.
Cheers Roy. One side of the road seems to be Bradley Lane and the other Smalley St.
Horace lived next to Ernie Bibby who looked after the Youth Club.
Correct Poet, I was friendly with Ernie's lad Brian. You're obviously a similar age to me so I feel I should know you, I think you live in C St, contact me if you wish via my e mail address.