Hi, or should I say Yebbie Yebbie Yebbie
Mr G.Jackson has sent me a fantastic picture of Taxal and Fernilee School from 1910 (known locally as Horwich End School or even as Fernillee and Taxal School) to put on the forum , along with some memories.
One of the really interesting things about the Whaley Forum is that if you now start to Google stuff on whaley, you will find that the forum turns up time and time again. For the contributors, you, and your words are now to be seen by everybody on this planet with an internet connection. The search terms people use can determine whether they stumble over what they were trying to find and sometimes the order of the words do matter in this respect.
This is why I think it is important to point out the following, just in case someone in the future is trying to find something :
In the picture below, the sign on the picture reads Fernilee and Taxal C.E school rather than Taxal and Fernilee C.E school as we all now know it. Mr Jackson points out that this picture is dated April 12th 1910 Group 4 , and was taken on exactly the same day as another picture of Group 6 which is on this forum which is dated April 12th 1910 Group 6 . I think the reason why the Fernilee and Taxal is now reversed has something to do with the way the church parishes changed .
According to Genuki:
The river Goyt, which flows through Horwich End and Whaley Bridge, was formerly the boundary between Derbyshire and Cheshire, separating the parishes of Taxal (St James's Church) and Fernilee. Originally, Fernilee was united with Chapel en le Frith, which was then a chapelry in the parish of Hope. However when Chapel en le Frith became an independent parish in 1297, Fernilee remained part of Hope, where it stayed until in 1898, when it was transferred to Buxton. Shortly after (1905) it became a separate parish, then in 1966, it was joined with Taxal, in the diocese of Chester. For the purposes of civil administration, however Taxal and Fernilee are now in Derbyshire.
In 1910, when this picture was taken Fernilee appears to have been the predominant parish. Why would you call it Taxal and Fernilee ?
The picture I have from G.Jackson is festooned with post-it notes on the front and back with loads of detail:
First of all the names that he has - please,please throw in any that you may know of or any corrections.
Back Row: Joe Lomas, Jack Hodgson, x, x, x, J.Swindels, ? Dronfield, Unknown Teacher
3rd Row- ?,?, Frances Boothby,?,Vere Longson,Mrs Hibbert (!) : Mr G.Jackson says that Vere(do you mean Vera?) might be the 6th along and Mrs Hibbert(!) might be the 5th - he isnt sure- it might be the other way around.
Mr G. Jackson says that Jack Hodgson,the tall and rather handsome lad second from left on the top row, sadly never had any children. His brothers, Ellis, Dick and Bert , and sister Hannah all did, and according to Mr Jackson, they are all still alive and well. If they see this, then perhaps they might be able to put some names to faces ! I hope so.
Yebbie has appeared on several posts in the past, but now we have a picture and very hopefully the start of a story. Mr Jackson will hopefully help me out, but if I read it right, then on the post-it notes he has provided he says that the three boys on the back row marked x along with the child on the end were all Dronfields. The first boy of the three boys marked x on the back row was known as Yebbie. Yebbie has lots of descendants, who were all apparently called Yebbie. Yebbies were apparently very well known in Whaley.
Is the head teacher a younger Mr Arthur or 'Pop' as people have called him, or is he entirely different?
By the way - notice the clogs - standard footware!
Thanks Mr Jackson - please correct me on anything.
Cheers
Jon.
Edited by user 11 June 2010 11:54:12(UTC)
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