Ena Smith's 90th Birthday
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Title
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Ena Smith's 90th Birthday
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Description
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Ena Smith lived at 6 Creaton Road. She was a stalwart of the church and always rang the bell, hence holding the bell-rope in the picture. She had lived in Hollowell from about the age of 2 and she and husband Jack ran the Red Lion ale house on Guilsborough Hill in the 1930s after her parents retired from running it.
People in the picture, left to right:
Mrs Wallace, Eva Davies (with Rev William Gibbs behind), , ???, ???,William and Vivian Hall, Hazel Grace (Ena's eldest daughter), Ena, George Grace, Joan Rowell, Kathleen Litchfield, Brs Brock, Diana Wells, Renee Bell, ???, Gill Brown.
Front row: ???, Caroline Hall, ???.
The second image is taken from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 31 October 1996. Included in the article are the words:
"Mrs Smith was born in Northampton where her parents kept the Admiral Rodney pub, in The Drapery. She moved to Hollowell when she was aged about two when her parents took the licence of the Red Lion, then one of two pubs in the village. Mrs Smith went to the village school, married a local man and has been in the village ever since. Her daughter, Hazel, was among the congregation."
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Date
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1996
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Place
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Hollowell: Church Hill
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Rights
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Copyright Guilsborough & Hollowell History Society
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Source
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Gill Brown; Kathleen Litchfield
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Identifier
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H0128
