Herewith some chunks of Clowne history !
My mother's side were the Johnson's. Horace, on the war memorial was her only brother, died of flu/meningitis(?) at Aldershot before he got to France in 1918. I do have a photo of him and will send if you are not too cluttered up !
Charles Johnson and Agnes Belfitt were my great grand parents, had the first telephone exchange in their front room. Late in life he made notes which still exist with relatives in Derby. I have transcript and will copy attached, later notes added by his daughter Mary, who took over the telephone exchange. She died aged 99, I have a snap taken in old age.
Barnet Kenyon MP was my great uncle, his widow lived with us to 1945 aged 91., Walter Garner and Jane Minor were my grandparents. She was 'in service' in Manchester , her Mistress died and left her £50, about 1900.
She married Walter in1902 and spent the £50 buying the plots at Portland St. They took out £200 mortgage from Clowne Coop and built No 9. I have the deed with 3 family signatures on it- Walter, Barnet Kenyon, and Arthur Calow. It was sold after their death about 1954.
The photos of No 9 show daughter Eunice in front about 1925, then, in colour, my father Harold there in 1980's. He was born there in 1904.
Sidney Minor had a business in North Rd, he was chapel organist.
I hope this is enough to be going on with.
