Help with writing on photo please.

[Lady Penelope]

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.

 

[Astoness]

taken 13th jan 1947 looks something like salhorn/sathom priory

lyn

 

[brummy-lad]

Could it be Southam Priory?

 

[brummy-lad]

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[mikejee]

Jan 13 th 1947, and looks like Satham orf Soatham Priory

 

[brummy-lad]

Doorway seems to match

 

[Astoness]

southam priory looks a good bet to me

lyn

 

[Lady Penelope]

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.

 

[Astoness]

i wonder if the priory is still there pen

lyn

 

[superdad3]

i wonder if the priory is still there pen

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.

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?

 

[Dinger]

Yep SuperDad! Spot On. - Its a building next to the Church at Southam Gloucestershire - Google Streetview doesn't list it but I've found a Property Listing for it - The Building is now called "The Pidgeon House".

https://themovemarket.com/tools/propertyprices/pigeon-house-cottage-southam-lane-southam-cheltenham-gl52-3ny

 

[Dinger]

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.