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Dear George ...: April 2013
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Thursday, April 4, 2013. George is to receive a salary of £20 a year. George discusses his future plans in an incomplete letter to Sill. I am writing away we have only just closed shop and it is now nearly ten oclock and I must go and get my supper or I shall not have any. I shall not post this letter until Monday as I have no stamps and shall not be able to get any until then. Views inside a traditional ironmongers shop courtesy of The Bygones Victorian Museum and J.B. Banks and Son Ltd. 17, The Hayes,.
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Dear George ...: So what was the rest of the family up to?
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Monday, January 9, 2012. So what was the rest of the family up to? Take time out to read about another branch of the Bevan family. The Anchor Brewery once stood on what is now the site of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. With its closure in 1981 a 365 year history of brewing was brought to an end. Courage, the then owners, transferred their operations to a new brewery at Worton Grange, Reading. Look at Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton! None I may have a conviction that Mr. Micawber's manners -'. By 1815 Barcl...
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Dear George ...: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Christina Elizabeth Frances Bevan. Last week a follower on twitter sent me an intriguing message – ‘here’s something to pass on to all your Bevan clan’ - he wrote with a link to a feature in a national daily newspaper. However, Christina's true identity came to light when Stephen Riddle, a retired technician, contacted Colin Harding, curator at the National Media Museum with a set of stereoscopic slides by O’Gorman. It was a far cry from the lifestyle of Sylvanus Bevan, 80 and h...
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Dear George ...: January 2014
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Saturday, January 25, 2014. The present protraction (which you term Liberal selfishness) has originated from following too much the devises of the Tories, and thereby, exhausted our finances, so we are bound to retrench, and home requirements are delayed as well as those abroad. On Saturday morning last as Dutch Galley Yatch. The same rig as a Dandy. Was abandon off our coast in a sinking condition the crew came in to the quay and got on board the lass. On hearing their report Capt. Tom. We have been ver...
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Dear George ...: March 2013
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Saturday, March 30, 2013. Family letters are abuzz as George comes to the end of his apprenticeship and Sill wants him to read the marriage advertisements. I received your letter duly but cannot comply with your request as I never attempted anything of the sort, and do not know what form. Pitton tea meeting will be held on Thursday next and some two or three of us are thinking to go, if all is well. I expect to spend the Whit Sunday and Monday in Swansea with Jane to rest a bit. I shall like to know whet...
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Dear George ...: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014. Sill is a 'free agent'. The Salthouse Silvanus mentions is a pair of cottages that once stood on the western end of Porteynon Bay. Said to have been built on the site of a fortified mansion house and stone quay belong to the Lucas family, the original structure, built in the 17. Century, was destroyed in the devastating Great Storm of 1703. A pair of cottages was built on the ruin during the 18. Century and, according to local guides, occupied until the mid 19. For five hundre...
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Status, Scandal and Subterfuge: Anthony Bingham Mildmay in Swindon
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Status, Scandal and Subterfuge. Thursday, December 27, 2012. Now if only Anthony, Lord Mildmay of Flete could have met his distant kinsman Frederick, St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, what a conversation they would have enjoyed. Anthony Bingham Mildmay, Lord Mildmay of Flete. Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke. He was descended from the Farley Chamberlayne branch of the St John family. His great grandfather was Humphrey St John Mildmay, the son of Henry St John who married wealthy heiress J...
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Status, Scandal and Subterfuge: July 2014 in Swindon
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Status, Scandal and Subterfuge. Sunday, July 27, 2014. It would appear that the Lady St. Johns had a penchant for gardening. And while it was down to the men to make sweeping changes to the parkland, it was the women who attended to the finer details. Lady Johanna, wife of Sir Walter St John was a keen gardener. Letters written from her home in Battersea to Thomas Hardyman her steward at Lydiard indicate how involved she was with the planting and development of the garden. The main gated and pillared ent...
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Status, Scandal and Subterfuge: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester in Swindon
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Status, Scandal and Subterfuge. Saturday, July 26, 2014. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, died on July 26, 1680, aged 33 years old. It had been, how can I put it, an eventful life. The son of Anne St John and her second husband Royalist hero Henry, Viscount Wilmot, John was a bit of an embarrassment to his mother. Upset her was that he wouldn't renounce all of the above on his death bed - and boy did she try hard to persuade him. Back home in London he was the toast...
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Dear George ...: How it all began
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Friday, December 2, 2011. How it all began. Several years ago I acquired an archive of family letters and books collected and preserved by Dr Mary Bevan (pictured below). Mary was born in 1925 in Colwyn Bay, the only child of George Herbert Bevan and his wife Constance. Having graduated from Oxford University, she went on to Medical School in Manchester where she qualified in 1950. The Bevan family roots in Gower stretch back over 350 years to Jenkin ap Evan, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. P...
