Dronfield Eye Issue 166 August 2019

dronfield EYE
Do you
recall this
Dronfield
children’s
tea party?
T
HIS group of Dronfield children in their
best clothes are enjoying a big tea party,
but what’s the occasion?
Dronfield Eye reader Molly Allen would love to
know if anyone can shed any light on the celebration
and venue. Perhaps it was the Queen’s Coronation in
1953?
Molly explained that the photograph came to light
when she was clearing out her late aunt Bessie
Edwards’ home, in Alexandra Road.
Bessie’s only child, Margaret, born in 1944,
is pictured at the head of the left-hand table,
closest to the camera.
Born only months apart, cousins Molly and
Margaret were inseparable as girls, but Molly isn’t
on this photograph.
She thinks it might have been taken at the
Congregational Chapel, or the Parish Church
Sunday School room.
Margaret went on to become Margaret Guyler and
eventually settled in Nottingham where she sadly
died in 1985, aged just 39, leaving three children.
If you can help with information, email
deb@heronpublications.co.uk
Bank memory
T
HIS fabulous photograph of a
corner of old Dronfield
appeared in a recent edition of our
sister magazine ‘My Kind of Town’,
the local nostalgia publication.
It shows the stone-built former bank
at the junction of Lea Road and School
Lane - premises currently on offer
following the closure of the RBS
branch earlier this year.
Do you have interesting old images of
the Dronfield Eye area? If so, why not
share them with our readers?
You can either email them to
mike@heronpublications.co.uk or
take them along to our office at
Enterprise House, 179 Chesterfield
Road, Dronfield.
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