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Help with writing on photo please.

Lady Penelope

Lady Penelope

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This photo was taken in 1947 as the Land Army girls were just leaving for work. There are some faint words at the top telling where it was taken but I can't quite read it and I wondered if anyone can work out what it says please? It's believed to be somewhere in Gloucestershire or Worcestershire and another photo mentions Mickleton.

Many thanks.
 

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Thank you Lyn and Brummy-lad. Yes, you're right.

I'm attaching another photo which shows the whole building. I hadn't realised how long after the war the Land Army continued but my friend's Mom wasn't released until August 1948.
 

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Astoness said:
i wonder if the priory is still there pen
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Lady Penelope said:
This photo was taken in 1947 as the Land Army girls were just leaving for work. There are some faint words at the top telling where it was taken but I can't quite read it and I wondered if anyone can work out what it says please? It's believed to be somewhere in Gloucestershire or Worcestershire and another photo mentions Mickleton.

Many thanks.
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Great photos.

My wife's family came from Southam, Warks. If you look at the chapel in the background it definitely doesn't look like any of the churches there so I had a look at Southam, Glos. and there is a medieval chapel there which has a simple belfry & which might be the church in the background of the photograph?

Incidentally, I can't find any mention at either place of a Southam Priory or indeed anywhere else in spite of the very interesting postcard. Anyone any ideas?
 
There is a small "Priory Cottage" only a hundred yards away from the Pidgeon House. Maybe some of the girls were billeted there but took their meals in the much bigger Pidgeon House. - On a map from 1900 the Pidgeon House is still called The Pidgeon House.
 
Just found a newspaper reference to North Gloucestershire Land Army girls on strike in 1945 and one of the places referred to is Southam Priory.

(Will post when I have my laptop on).
 
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