Local People
The Rudyard Lake Archive has many pictures of the people who have lived round the lake over the years, from the more prominent residents like Fanny Bostock and the Reverend Boothman of Cliffe Park Hall to the ordinary folk in more modest dwellings.
Where we know the people in the pictures we have added the names:
Coxon and Holmes
Freddie Boulton of Shady Oakes
Revd. E. Duncan Boothman
Revd. E. Duncan Boothman (younger)
1900 Allan May, Travis Sandeman outside Greenfields
Marion Heath and Jane Austin – Rock Cottage
Fanny Bostock – Painting
Fanny Bostock – Painting (younger)
Inside the shop on the Dam head
John Cooper playing Boules
Rudyard Ladies Football Team
Front Row: Ada Bell, Hilda Shaw, Elsie Shaw, Bessy Shaw, G Thomson
Back Row: F Neil, Ena Fryer, G Goodwin, Nellie Rogers, PC Jackson, Blanche Salt, L Thomson, G Bilket, Miss Hall
Rudyard Football Team – 1922
First intake of miners at Horton Lodge
Mr William Tellwright
Mrs Mary Austin c. 1890
Alderman Chesters-Thompson
A Boxing Day Pantomime
“The Wasps”
Front row: Peggy Elkes, Violet Bailey, Grace Heath, Miss Hine, Mary Sandeman, Nellie Rogers
Back Row: Travis Sandeman, Dennis Elkes, Joel Winkle, Len Vickers
Charlie Young
Charlie Young II
Brookes and Walker families
The Blue Birds – 1921
1921 Blue Birds Concert at Rudyard Tennis Club.
From left: Alice Knowles, Bert Brown, Nellie Rogers, Peggy Elkes, Travis Sandeman, Blanche Salt, Mrs Wood, Len Vickers, Dora Heath, Hildred Salt
1905 – Greenlands, Dunwood Lane, Rudyard. William Sandeman’s House
by Alan Weeks.
