Beeston Notes -

This page contains miscellaneous notes which provide supplementary infornation which add to and support other pages on this site. They are grouped by topic so that they can be read in their own right or simply provide a target for links provided on other related pages.

Industry

Family History

MARTIN John, Mary & Thomas : Additional epitaph on Churchyard Memorial:
Here Lays theire bodys Mouldering in the dust
Theire souls we hopes is placed Amongst the just
Let us lament ... in grief and sorrow
And Live today as if he to die to Morrow

Notes : Thomas Martin's date of death may read 1757 or 1737 although 1777 is in line with a baptism for a child of that name in 1774 in Beeston. John Martin's year of death could read 1779.

People

Fred Reavill - extract from the Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal citations for 1911 "Case 38074 - At 9 p.m. on the 1st April, 1910, a young man and, young woman accidentally walked into the canal at Beeston, the night being very dark. Frederick Reavill went in and saved the man, again going in, he tried to find the woman, but failed, and she was drowned." (Quoted from the citations for 1911 transcribed at http://www.lsars.eurobell.co.uk/bronz11s.htm )

William Bower - a report in the Beeston Gazette of 1908 includes Wiliam in a list of prominent residents who contributed towards the expense of a "tea for the children of the community" at the opening of the recreation ground ( probably Dovecote Lane). His contribution was 5 shillings. Beeston Rylands Cricket Club scoresheets, given in the sports listings in the same year, include a B, M & A Bower, apparently the sons of William and Amy (Barry Edward, Maurice and Ambrose).

William Bower - Boat Inn - Records at Nottinghanshire Archives of Brewster Sessions include plans of public houses. (Ref: C/PS/B/34/1-103) Those for the period April - August 1932 include the Boat Inn, Beeston (Ref: C/PS/B/34/7). Unfortunately, these records have a 100 year block on access. As William Bower died in 1935 by which time he had moved to 7 Trent Road which tends to indicated that he retired in or slightly before 1932 following which the rebuild took place.

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