My Name is Michael Holley and like you to know that I lived in the village of "Ridge" from 1930 to 1938 At that time Ridge was the home for a Narrow Guage Railway steam enging house and also the home of a china clay washing plant I thiunk this Picture may well be the enging house that I refered to . I lived a # 3 Brookside ,an very old thach roof cottage only about 100 yards from the engine house . I am now 83 years old and live in Langley British Columbia Canada .
I went to School in Wareham which was very near the Old Church that is near the River Frome . I would like to trace someone that lived in Arne her name was Violet Gardner , her date of Birth would have been early 1925 and she went to the same School in Wareham
Please be free to contact me (604)534-6466
Monday Oct. 13 2008
Further to my comments re Engine house and my place of residence ,looking at the Google map The name of the street (Then only 3 houses ) lo9oks as if it now called Sunnyside now off of Barnhill Rd .At the time I lived there there were two Steam Tank Engines , the newer one of the two was housed inside the Engine shed and the older one left on the West side of the Shed . As a boy of about 9 years I would light the Engine boiler fire on a Monday Morning at 5 AM and received the pay of one shilling which went a long way in those days to pay for household groceries . At that time the railway went down to the River Frome and in the other direction to the clay pits which was called |Pikes Clayworks )
Most of the men that worked on the railway and in the clay pits had the surname of Gover or Green and lived in Ridge
Michael Holley
mikeholley at shaw.ca
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mholley, on October 13, 2008, said:
My Name is Michael Holley and like you to know that I lived in the village of "Ridge" from 1930 to 1938 At that time Ridge was the home for a Narrow Guage Railway steam enging house and also the home of a china clay washing plant I thiunk this Picture may well be the enging house that I refered to . I lived a # 3 Brookside ,an very old thach roof cottage only about 100 yards from the engine house . I am now 83 years old and live in Langley British Columbia Canada . I went to School in Wareham which was very near the Old Church that is near the River Frome . I would like to trace someone that lived in Arne her name was Violet Gardner , her date of Birth would have been early 1925 and she went to the same School in Wareham Please be free to contact me (604)534-6466
Michael Holleymholley, on October 13, 2008, said:
Monday Oct. 13 2008 Further to my comments re Engine house and my place of residence ,looking at the Google map The name of the street (Then only 3 houses ) lo9oks as if it now called Sunnyside now off of Barnhill Rd .At the time I lived there there were two Steam Tank Engines , the newer one of the two was housed inside the Engine shed and the older one left on the West side of the Shed . As a boy of about 9 years I would light the Engine boiler fire on a Monday Morning at 5 AM and received the pay of one shilling which went a long way in those days to pay for household groceries . At that time the railway went down to the River Frome and in the other direction to the clay pits which was called |Pikes Clayworks ) Most of the men that worked on the railway and in the clay pits had the surname of Gover or Green and lived in Ridge Michael Holley mikeholley at shaw.ca