Family Photographs Related To Joan Stringer
Stringer, Joan, b1931, of Cambridge
1850-1955
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Family Photographs Related To Joan Stringer
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Date of work:
1850-1955
Reference number:
GB124.DPA/2439
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Sub-fonds from Fonds: Documentary Photographic Archive (GB124.DPA)
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The donor was born 25 November 1931 at 38 Tennyson Road, St. Marks, Cheltenham. The donor's parents were Hilda Jenkinson (born 1893 in Hulme) and Charles Henry Stringer (born 1889). Charles was the youngest of three children (Florence, the eldest and Edith in the middle) of Charles Henry Stringer, senior, who was a pawnbroker. He was Honorary Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Society of Assis-ant Pawnbrokers in 1876. The family lived over the shop. Charles, the pawnbroker, died in 1893 leaving a widow and young family. His widow kept a shop in York Street, Hulme in order to bring up her family. Both Hilda Jenkinson and Charles Henry Stringer (junior) attended St. Pauls Church in Hulme. Hilda's father Robert Jenkinson worked at Broome and Foster Ltd., cotton warehouse. Charles Henry Stringer was a keen amateur photographer. He trained as a printer/compositor in Hyde and worked as a compositor. During World War I he served in the Artillery. He went to Cheltenham late in 1919 and worked for the firm of Norman Brothers, a small printing works in Chelthenham who specialised in fine colour work. Hilda and Charles married at St. Paul's Church, Hulme on 19 June 1920.
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Record types:
Greater Manchester County Record Office
Language:
English
Record number:
7204727
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