Photographic Archive

1930s - Building the houses on Smith Street

Back row: Harry Bannister, Ted Hayter, ?, ?, Ernest Martin

Front row: ?, ?, Tom Bott, Biddy Cook, ?

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1996

The occasion of the unveiling of the plaque to Amphillis Twigden.

The two young men are Thomas Fowkes (on the left) who played the Harpsichord, and Kevin Johnson who played the trumpet.

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1975

Left to right: ?, Mrs Amos (not Church View), Stephen Holt, Sid Holt, ?, Mary Holt (who died in 1984)

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1985 - Remembrance Sunday, Bob Hadnett

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1985 - Remembrance Sunday

The choir includes the Kench twins (Wendy Kench and Susan Kench), Goldie Cochran, Humphrey Bennett and Joan Savage (churchwardens). Holding the crucifix is Bob Balderson

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1985 - Remembrance Sunday, Bob Balderson

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1988

Spratton Church's 6^th Bell with Mrs Irene Eaton, daughter of Harry Bannister. The bell cost nearly £4,000 and was paid for by generous donations, of which the largest was given in memory of Harry Bannister, a Spratton bell-ringer, who died in 1959 aged 79 years. A major donation was also made by Cara Harriman

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1988

A new treble bell weighing five and a quarter hundredweight was installed in 1988 and rung for the first time by C William Brown, better known as Bill. Bill Brown was taught bell ringing by his father in 1911 when he was 10 years old and he continued ringing until old age. He was captain of the Spratton bell-ringers and also master of the Guilsborough Branch of the Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers.

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