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Mark Tooze said:
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Martha Pardoe is mentioned on this one.
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Jan 1954 Church Walk, Ward End compulsory purchase for improvement of highways

June 1958…House Building Committee proposes to buy compulsorily a caravan site in Church Walk in Ward End. The land has been used as a
Caravan site for more than 25 years, now wanted for permanent houses.

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Pedrocut said:
Jan 1954 Church Walk, Ward End compulsory purchase for improvement of highways

June 1958…House Building Committee proposes to buy compulsorily a caravan site in Church Walk in Ward End. The land has been used as a
Caravan site for more than 25 years, now wanted for permanent houses.

July 1951
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Herbert died in 1957, so both the houses stood empty for many years. There was a chap by the name of Joe Dainty who lived at the Pardoe’s property. For many years. The story’s goes he was left at the house as a small boy and the Pardoe’s gave him accommodation. He acted like a caretake for the houses until they were demolished on the 60’s. They built a church hall on the site which in turn is now gone and houses built on the site.

With all of that made up ground from Herberts sandpit I hope the site engineers did their job.
 
Hello Morturn, i got my Cress mixed up with Sage. It seems stories vary between food poisoning from contaminated duck to stuffing contaminated by a toad .Here is the piece in the book.
 

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Harry Gower said:
Hello Morturn, i got my Cress mixed up with Sage. It seems stories vary between food poisoning from contaminated duck to stuffing contaminated by a toad .Here is the piece in the book.
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Many thanks for that snippet from the book, it generally fits the family stories that I know about. A couple of Pardoe lads married a couple of the gypsie girls from the caravan site too. Gypsies or travellers and traders seems to fit with a few other bits too. The boxing shed would have been for Tommy Pardoe.

The poisoning incident was documented in the local papers, and an inquest was held for the children, but no conclusion was made as to the source of the poisoning.

I did meet Joe Dainty once when I was young, half scare me to death at first, but he seems to be very fond of my grandad.
 
Morturn : I have a family tree link to Pardoes in Goalford, St Lawrence, Ludlow. The 1841 census shows Samuel Pardoe born c1795 and his wife Martha born c1795, and their 8 children living in Goalford. It may have been a common surname in that area, but is there any connection to your Pardoes?
 
BrummieGeoff said:
Morturn : I have a family tree link to Pardoes in Goalford, St Lawrence, Ludlow. The 1841 census shows Samuel Pardoe born c1795 and his wife Martha born c1795, and their 8 children living in Goalford. It may have been a common surname in that area, but is there any connection to your Pardoes?
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Hello

They are in my tree as the children of Samual and Mary Pardoe my 4x great grandparents. In my tree it looks like they had ten children.
 
Oh wow ...all them Caravans that people lived in. Gives me a new perspective of where Wifes Gran lived when she split from Husband in Ladywood and turned up in Newcastle Under Lyme living in a caravan...Her and partner with up to 7 children....but one died aged 8 and another in 1st year - both just before they moved to a house......
 
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