Spotlight on Fairmount Drive

Fairmount Drive

We have seen from a previous blogpost that Fairmount Drive was one of a number of roads developed by the partnership of Arthur Edward Shepherd and Walter Mounteney, which included Holywell Drive, Highfields Drive, Benscliffe Drive and Shepherds Close. These streets and houses were created around the late-1920s-early-1930s, and by 1933, Arthur Edward Shepherd was living at Highcroft (1), no.1 Holywell Drive, a detached house at the summit of Fairmount Drive, practically opposite the home of Bernard Nixon Wale, who you may remember lived at no.40 Fairmount Drive.

Highcroft, No.1 Holywell Drive, the home of Arthur Edward Shepherd

Walter, the lime and coal merchant, who was the brother of Hilda Pick Mounteney, the second wife of Bernard Nixon Wale, and Arthur, the painter and decorator, had joined forces after the First World War, and in 1926, when Arthur bought shares in the building company of Corah, following the death of Edgar Corah, Arthur’s three sons joined their father’s business. Their early work saw the development of Park Road and Parklands Drive, followed by the demolishing of some Market Street properties. The creation of roads around Fairmount Drive were as a result of the selling off of some lands associated with the Burleigh Estate, some of which Arthur had bought and sold, and re-bought.

Many of the houses in the surrounding streets are easily recognisable as what we know today as typical semi-detached and detached 1930s houses. At the time they were built, Art Deco was really catching on as a type of art and architecture, so it is not surprising that there is a short row of striking Art Deco houses on the beginning of Shepherds Close.

Art Deco houses at the beginning of Shepherds Close

Fairmount Drive comprises mostly semi-detached houses on one side, and more extensive and substantial detached houses on the other. However, today, like many other streets, wherever a space has been found between houses, infill has taken place, so there are some unexpected, newer properties nestled between the original houses. Perhaps because of its position on the former Burleigh Estate, Fairmount Drive is lined with trees, and perhaps because of its straight ascent to the place where Burleigh Hall once stood, and towards the Iron Age Hill Fort, this is why the street is so called. Or perhaps, it is simply named after the house in which Arthur Edward Shepherd’s brother, Albert Marshall Shepherd, was living from around 1927 – ‘Fairmount’ on Westfield Drive?

Fairmount on Westfield Drive, home of Albert Marshall Shepherd

So, what news of Fairmount Drive over the years??

So who was Arthur Edward Shepherd?

Posted 22 November 2020

 So who was Arthur Edward Shepherd?    

       

The birth of Arthur Edward Shepherd on 16 March 1872 was registered in Loughborough. His parents were John Shepherd, variously described as being born in Hoton and Wymeswold in 1834, and Amy Marshall. Amy was born in 1831 in Wymeswold, and was the daughter of John, a farmer in Wymeswold, and his wife Mary, who lived at Brook Street.

Brook Street, Wymeswold

 

John and Amy Shepherd married in the first quarter of 1857, the event being registered in Loughborough. The first of their children who survived into adulthood, was Caroline, who was born in 1858, married John Elliott in 1877, and lived to the age of 92. William was born in 1861; followed by Sarah Ann in 1863. John Henry was born in 1868, followed by Arthur Edward Shepherd in 1872, Frederick Marshall Shepherd in 1875, and Albert Marshall Shepherd in 1877. William and Frederick emigrated to Philadelphia.

Arthur Edward Shepherd spent his early school years firstly at the Church Gate School, before moving to the Board School, on a site that is now occupied by Pinfold Jetty. In 1881, when he was 9, he and his parents and four of his siblings lived at 67 Freehold Street. John Shepherd, Arthur Edward Shepherd’s father was listed as a joiner, and his sister Sarah Ann as a factory hand in a cotton hosiery factory.

Properties now on Freehold Street

Arthur Edward Shepherd finished school in October 1883, and began working for the Co-operative Society at their Wood Gate premises, where he helped the baker, and delivered bread and groceries across the town. In September 1884 there was a big fire in the building and the manager Alfred Reeve was jailed for 5 years for starting the fire. Arthur Edward Shepherd went around the town at night collecting signatures on a petition for Reeve’s release. Whilst Arthur was working at the Co-op, his two brothers, William and Frederick emigrated to Philadelphia. Arthur Edward Shepherd left the employment of the Co-op in 1886, and then spent a year working for Clemersons, which was a furnishers based at 1 Mill Street (now Market Street).

Co-Operative store on Wood Gate

Following this, in 1887, Arthur Edward Shepherd became apprenticed to James Hall, to learn the trade of house decorating. This was an apprenticeship lasting for five years. In 1891 Arthur Edward Shepherd was living at 41 Freehold Street, with his parents and two younger brothers, Frederick Marshall Shepherd aged 16, an apprentice fitter, and Albert Marshall Shepherd, aged 14, an office boy, all of whom were born in Loughborough. In 1890, Arthur Edward Shepherd’s older sister, Sarah had married Richard Farmer Lane, and in early 1891, his older brother, John Henry married Hannah Sharman.

In July 1894, having completed his apprenticeship, and worked as a journeyman painter/decorator for a short time, Arthur Edward Shepherd began his own business, as a master painter and decorator. Initially, he ran this business from his father’s house at 41 Freehold Street, but soon moved to a property on Nottingham Road, no.37, where he also rented a workshop and goods yard. This is now part of Langabeer Court, the bit closest to Hellier Technical Services.

Previously 37 Nottingham Road

Now settled in his own business in his own property, Arthur Edward Shepherd married on 20 October 1894. His bride was Eliza Ann Street, and the couple were married at the Baxter Gate Chapel in Loughborough. The minister officiating was Rev. Reuben Finn Handford, who had been in Loughborough for only just over a year, having arrived from Gorton, Manchester, in June 1893.

Baxter Gate Baptist Chapel

Eliza Ann Street was the daughter of William Street and his wife, Charlotte Cramp Sutton.  Although born in Derby in 1872, by the time of the 1881 census, Eliza is living at 79 Cobden Street Loughborough with her mother and siblings: Eliza is the only one listed as being born in Derby, the other children were Loughborough. William is not at home on the night of this census. When the 1891 census was taken, father, William, a 42-year-old joiner, was at 91 Russell Street, the family home, with wife Charlotte,  41, Eliza Ann’s older brother Joseph, 20, who was either a plumber or a painter, younger brother William Whyman, a 17-year-old joiner’s apprentice, 14-year-old George Albert, an errand boy. Siblings Nellie (12), Walter (10) and Herbert (5) also listed, were all scholars.

Street sign made by the local John Jones ironfoundry

So, Arthur Edward Shepherd and Eliza Ann having married and settled down, they were pleased to welcome the arrival of their first child, Nellie, her birth, on 27 October 1895 being registered in Loughborough.

In 1899 Arthur Edward Shepherd is listed in a trade directory as living at 37 Nottingham Road as a painter, and on 1 February that same year, the family welcomed the birth of son Arthur Shepherd. The following year, Arthur Edward Shepherd’s older brother, Frederick Marshall Shepherd, who has emigrated to the US marries a lady called Ada in the US, and on 26 October 1900, Arthur Edward Shepherd and Eliza Ann celebrated the birth of their daughter Lilian Shepherd.

Around 1901, Arthur Edward Shepherd, aged 29, moved and on the 1901 census is listed as living at 85 Nottingham Road, what is now the newsagents and adjacent building, on the corner of Nottingham Road and Queens Road, which it’s very likely Arthur Edward Shepherd built himself. On the side of the building is a ghost sign, a reminder of Arthur Edward Shepherd’s business. He is living with wife, Eliza Ann, aged 28, and children Nellie (5), Arthur (2), Lilian (5 months) (4). It wasn’t long before the next child came along: Albert Shepherd was born in April 1904. Meanwhile, over in the US, Arthur Edward Shepherd’s brother, Frederick Marshall Shepherd, and his wife Ada, had a daughter, Elsie.

85 Nottingham Road

Arthur Edward Shepherd’s sister, Sarah Ann Lane died in 1907, at the age of 41, followed by his mother in 1908. Also in 1908, Arthur Edward Shepherd and his wife had twin boys, John and William. On the 1911 census return, Arthur Edward Shepherd, his wife, and six of their children were still living at 85 Nottingham Road. On the same census, Eliza’s parent, William and Charlotte Street, were living at 7 Selbourne Street, close to the bellfoundry, where William was a foreman. In 1911, Arthur Edward Shepherd was elected to serve the council at the Hastings Ward.

7 Selbourne Street to the right

In 1913 Arthur Edward Shepherd was asked to take over the running of the 'Robin’s Breakfast'. This was an annual event on each Christmas morning, children of the poor would be given a breakfast of things like bread with butter, pork pie, plum cake and copious amounts of tea, and on leaving would be given a mince pie, an orange and some chocolate to take home with them. He continued doing this for about 25 years, and in December 1915 and December 1916, he wrote letters to the local newspaper, the ‘Loughborough Echo’ about the events.

Lilian, youngest daughter of Arthur Edward Shepherd and Eliza Ann, was working in the Herbert Morris Empress Road works when Zeppelin bombs fell in that area on the night of 31 January 1916. Luckily she was unhurt, despite being flung down by the blast, and spending some time in the work’s basement until the danger was over. 

Herbert Morris factory from the canalside

Later that year, Arthur Shepherd, son of Arthur Edward Shepherd and Eliza Ann, reached the age of 18, and as this was during the First World War, he signed up to the AFC. Meanwhile Arthur Edward Shepherd joined the Civil Defence Force, which drilled in the Market Place during the daytime, and guarded The Brush during the night-time. In December 1916, Arthur Edward Shepherd’s father, John, died at the age of 82.

The Brush at nighttime

Arthur Edward Shepherd was called up to service in the First World War, in 1918, but in August of that year, whilst finishing off some of his contracted businesses, prior to joining the army, he fell from a ladder, and before he could recover, peace had been declared and the war was over. Also in this year, Arthur and Eliza Ann moved to a house called ‘Charnwood’, no.12 Forest Road, which had previously been the home of Gilbert Tucker (jnr.), and where the latter had kept a few cows, and sold their milk. [Update 2023: According to the Bulletin of the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society, of 1963, the house occupied by A.E. Shepherd was the one which was demolished for the Trinity Methodist church]

12 Forest Road [Update 2023: not the home of A.E. Shepherd]

Arthur Edward Shepherd’s decorating business was very successful, so he decided to diversify from decorating, and expand into land development and house building. He joined an informal partnership with Walter Mounteney, the brother of Hilda Pick Mounteney, who was the second wife of Bernard Nixon Wale, the subject of several earlier blogposts. 

There were a number of deaths in the 1920s. Firstly, in January 1923, Charlotte, Eliza Ann’s mother, died at the age of 75. In 1926, Edgar Corah, who owned the building firm of William Corah, died. The company had been established since 1851, and following Edgar’s death, Arthur Edward Shepherd bought shares in the company and with his three sons established his building and decorating firm.

Edgar Corah almshouses on Middleton Place

We already know that Arthur Edward Shepherd’s two brothers, William and Frederick emigrated to Philadelphia, so it’s lovely to learn that William, retired, and his wife Lydia, visited Arthur in 1929. They arrived in Southampton on 14 June, from New York, on a ship called the Olympic, part of the White Star Dominion line. They were aged 68 and 65 respectively, and would be staying at 12 Forest Avenue, Loughborough. When they visited again in 1932, they arrived into Southampton on 8 July, again on the Olympic. Again, they were staying with Arthur at no.12 on what was now called Forest Road.

Meanwhile, Frederick Marshall Shepherd (aged 55), Arthur’s brother, is listed on the US census of 1930 when he was living in Philadelphia, with his wife, Ada (also aged 55), who seems to have been born in Germany, and their daughter, Elsie M., aged 25, who was working as a saleslady in a department store. Frederick is a landlord of a hosiery mill.      

And back in Loughborough, Albert Marshall Shepherd, a member of the Baxter Gate Baptist Chapel, was living at a house called ‘Fairmount’, no.43 Westfield Drive. In 1933, Albert and Eliza Ann moved from Forest Road, to a property called High Croft, on Holywell Drive, and it was to this property that William Shepherd, aged 75, and his wife Lydia A., aged 71, came when they arrived in Southampton from New York, on 11 July 1934, on a ship called Berengaria, of the Cunard White Star line. William is retired.

Fairmount on Westfield Drive

High Croft, Holywell Drive

After the death of William Street, Eliza Ann’s father in April 1937, at the age of 88, Arthur and Eliza Ann made a trip to America and Canada to visit his two brothers, William and Frederick. Arthur and his wife returned from New York on 27 July 1937, on the Bernegaria, which was part of the Cunard White Star steamship line, and which sailed into Southampton.

In 1938, with his business partner, Walter Mounteney, Arthur Edward Shepherd bought Atherstone House in Wards End, which they demolished and erected a new building in its place, the one that still stands today and is now a Wetherspoons pub.

On the 1939 register, Arthur and Eliza Ann were still living on Holywell Drive, their house being listed between a property on one side called Blue Tiles, and on the other Bryn Awl (possibly!). Meanwhile, brother Albert, a widower, was still living at 43 Westfield Drive, and was listed as a director and secretary of a limited company of house furnishers, probably Clemersons.

Blue Tiles, Holywell Drive

Sadly, in April 1939, Arthur and Eliza Ann’s son, Albert, died following complications after surgery for appendicitis. Then, in February 1943, Walter Mounteney, Arthur’s business partner died. Later that same year, Arthur himself had a successful operation.

It was a happy day on 20 October 1944, as Arthur and Eliza Ann celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary. In 1948, they were visited by brother Frederick when he arrived in Southampton on a ship called the Queen Elizabeth, part of the Cunard White Star line, from New York, on 6 July 1948.

1950 saw the death, on 20 April, of Arthur’s brother John Henry, and in October of his sister Caroline Elliott, aged 92. 1951 was an eventful year, when Arthur built a bungalow in the garden of his house called Highcroft (or High Croft), and called it Greenwoods. He also spent 5 months in Harlow Woods OrthopaedicHospital in Mansfield, after tripping and breaking his thigh. 

Another happy occasion came in 1954, when on October 20, Arthur and Eliza Ann celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary.

On 20 February 1962 Arthur Edward Shepherd, listed as being of Greenwoods, 1 Holywell Drive, died. Probate was granted on 27 June 1962 to his sons, Arthur Shepherd and William Shepherd, both builders and contractors, and John Shepherd, civil engineer. His effects amounted to £48,429 15s. 10d.

The following year, on 29 March 1963 death of Eliza Ann Shepherd of Greenwoods, 1 Holywell Drive, died at Harlow Wood Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. [Note – I have not been able to establish if this was the same hospital as Arthur stayed in in 1951]. Probate was granted at Leicester on 10 June 1963 to her sons, Arthur and William Shepherd, building contractors. Effects amounted to £8,253.

The death of Albert Marshall Shepherd, of 43 Westfield Drive Loughborough, brother to Arthur Edward Shepherd, happened in Moseley, Birmingham, on 9 December 1964. Probate was granted on 2 March 1965 to Arthur Shepherd, builder and son of Arthur Edward Shepherd, and the Rev. John Henry Collins. Albert’s effects were £8704.

My investigations and research into the life of Arthur Edward Shepherd has been done as a result of my interest in - amongst many other things - the residential development of Loughborough, and a specific request from someone for more information about a specific street in Loughborough.

During his time as a painter, Arthur Edward Shepherd was involved in many pieces of work like limewashing the pantry and dairy of the Hathern Rectory; decorating the Free Wesleyan Church in Wood Gate, and limewashing the walls of the Herbert Morris Empress Road Works. When Arthur Edward Shepherd went into the house building business, he partnered with Walter Mounteney who was a coal and lime merchant at the time. Some of their first development together involved the area around Forest Road, including building Outwoods Drive.

Once Arthur Edward Shepherd’s sons joined the venture, the building firm developed Park Road and Parklands Drive, and demolished what they described as slum housing on Mill Street, now Market Street. I’m assuming they replaced these buildings with the brick Art Deco buildings that still stand in Market Street today, which are said to resemble a steamship, or the adjacent ones faced with Hathernware – or maybe the whole of that side of the street.  

Parcels of land on the Burleigh Estate had been offered for sale around 1920, and Arthur Edward Shepherd had bought and sold some of these, buying some back in the late-1920s-early-1930s, where they built a new development of houses, centred around Benscliffe Drive, Fairmount Drive, Highfields Drive, Holywell Drive, and the eponymous Shepherd’s Close.

Looking down Fairmount Drive to Forest Road

The story of Fairmount Drive … to be cont’d.

Information researched in the usual sources, plus: Cross, Joy & Staple, Margaret (eds.) (1994). Memoirs of a Loughborough man: A.E. Shepherd, 1872-1962. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of Adult Education.  

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At the Fair

At the fair, 1919

For this week’s blogpost, I was going to post some of my photos of fairs in years gone by, but re-considered this idea, and instead tried to hunt down some reports of the fair 100 years ago, in 1920. However, because libraries and record offices are closed, I haven’t been able to locate any, so I hope reports from the event in 1919 will be acceptable. I've also put some of my photos from last year's fair at the end of this post. 

A review of the fair which was held on 13, 14 and 15 November, appeared in the Loughborough Echo of 21 November 1919. It was quite a nostalgic report, first reminding the reader that the origins of the fair could be traced back many, many years, and that even as recently as 10-15 years ago, the fair was still a statutes fair – described as “The Stattits”, so presumably the local dialect. The statutes fair was an annual event concerned with the hiring of labourers, particularly for farms. So, 10-15 years ago, on Fair Friday, lads and lassies would stand in the Market Place, waiting to be hired by farmers. By accepting the shilling on offer, this gave the farmer the right to hire the servant or worker until the following Martinmas, which was St Martin’s Day, which falls on 11 November.

By 1919, this tradition of hiring workers had now passed, and the character of the fair changed completely, since entertainment like that previously provided at the annual fair, were available more widely, through theatres and ‘picture houses’.

“Booths for the performance of stage plays have vanished, Wombwell’s Menagerie (1) has forsaken the Market Place stand, Wall’s pantoscope [sic] (2) with the painted lady a-dancing, the boxing booth, nay, even the fat woman – all, all have gone, the old familiar faces. In their stead we now have the Cake Walk, (3) the noisy “Scienic [sic] railways”, the helter-skelter towering upward. Machinery has captured the fair, mechanical roundabouts rule where there used to shine the bohemianism of a penny gaff, or the school-girl sensation of a ride on horses, commonly known as roundabouts. To these, the rougher element of the fair, enjoyed by the youth through thick and thin, accompanied the jostling promenaders with squibs of water, confetti, and many other of its kind. Now they are forbidden, the promenaders promenade soberly, whilst the noise of the machinery and the loud organs’ mechanical sounds – all teel that the fun of the fair is of the past and that in its place we not have not [the] glamour of the swashbuckler, no “Maria Martin” (4), no “Pepper’s Ghosts” (5). Thus, the November fair of last week was chiefly an exhibition of mechanism, brilliantly lighted by electricity, in which the chief appeal for support lay in a motor ride on a circular switchback.”

The fair of 1919 also scored a first, being “the first time that a football team in Loughborough has hit upon such an idea.” So what was that idea? In a letter written to the Loughborough Echo, according to F.H. Cayless (6) explains that:

“The canteen of the Loughborough YMCA was much appreciated by the men connected with the various shows which travelled to the town for the annual three-days’ pleasure fair. Demands for food and hot drinks were always numerous, and at times the ladies, who readily gave voluntary help, had as much as they could do to cope with it, particularly on the Saturday.

During the whole period of the fair many weary showmen found the lounge a comfortable resting place, and obviously enjoyed the good fellowship to be found amongst those who regularly congregate there. Particularly this was noticeable on Sunday. Many men stayed in Loughborough the weekend owing to the paraphernalia only being partially dismantled after closing at midnight on Saturday. The weather on Sunday was very inclement, and the lounge became a comfortable shelter during the afternoon and evening.

An interesting feature of the evening was the hearty manner in which the men took part in the usual Sunday evening service. Such well-known hymns as “Jesu lover of my soul” and “Abide with me” were sung. It was intended to conclude with “God be with you till we meet again” but after this had been sung with much feeling there were loud requests from some of the showmen for “Eternal Father, strong to save”, and this had to be sung before the services could be closed.

A novel feature in the fair was a coffee stall run by the Loughborough YMCA Excelsior Football team. During the three evenings of the fair they staffed the stall, and at ten o’clock on Saturday they had to close down owing to the total failure of supplies. It is quite possible that this is the first time in the history of the fair that a stall has been run other than for the purposes connected with the earning of a livelihood. It is certainly the first time a football team in Loughborough has hit upon such an idea. That there was a need for such a venture was proved by the number of customers, over 1,000 people being provided with tea, coffee, sandwiches, or buns, at reasonable prices. During the fair week, the weekly takings of the Loughborough YMCA created a record.”

 

Further to that comment about the “paraphernalia only being partially dismantled after closing at midnight on Saturday” the Loughborough Echo also reported about Corporation Sunday:

“To those residents who knew Corporation Sundays before the war, one circumstance prominent on Sunday last would not escape notice. That was the presence in the Market Place of the stalls used at the fair. The November fair is fixed for the second Thursday in November, and the Corporation Sunday the first day of the week following the ninth November, so that the two events are closely in evidence. Probably the expense now arising from labour prevented the clearing of the streets so quickly as in former years, and as a consequence the Mayoral procession had to keep strictly to the highway. In the procession there was goodly company …”

As well as the procession, there was a service in the parish church, and a further procession to the Town Hall, where light refreshments were served. The sermon, delivered by the Rector, George Wallace Briggs, was of some length. On the subject of the mayoralty, he had this to say:

“We are here to welcome the new Mayor of this borough [Loughborough]. For his year of office the Mayor of each town is placed upon a pedestal above his fellows. But the Mayor has a better title; he is also a magistrate; and, unlike other magistrates, the Mayor, our chief magistrate, is delegated directly by us. At any rate, he is appointed by the Council, which is appointed by the direct will of the burgesses. Therefore, the Mayoralty of the town is the most demonstrable institution that the town has. Pure democracy is, perhaps, impossible; but so far as democracy is possible its highest point is evidenced in the Mayor of each borough. He is our man, our delegate, and, therefore, he is not only responsible to us, but we are also responsible to him, because it is we who have chosen him.

And I should like this morning, in the name of this old parish church, and, I hope, also in the name of the whole Christian community in this town, to tender to our new Mayor our respectful welcome, and to wish him God speed in the very difficult year which lies before him.”

The new mayor, welcomed in 1919 was William Charles Frederick, owner of the Zenobia perfume manufactory, who would serve for two consecutive terms.   

(1) Wombwell’s Menagerie – George Wombwell (1777-1850) collected exotic animals, and toured these around the country. Having bred the first lion in captivity in Britain, he named it William and had a carved lion put atop his tomb in Highgate Cemetery.

(2) George Wall’s Phantoscope – the Phantoscope was also known as the Ghost Entertainment, and comprised illusions and transformations. Mr Wall’s phantoscope wasn’t just a phantoscope – it was a Grand Phantoscope!

(3) The Cake Walk – was a fairground ride which you actually had to walk over, whilst the floor beneath you moved. I think these are still around?

(4) Maria Marten – thank you so much to one of my readers for advising me about who Martia Marten was. Apparently, in mid-Victorian fairs there would have been peep shows based around the murder, although this was clearly not part of the 1919 Loughborough fair. If you are unfamiliar with the name Maria Marten, you might have heard of the Red Barn murders.

(5) Pepper’s Ghost – is an illusory technique, which is still in use today.

(6) F.H.Cayless – the use of initials in the signatory of this letter initially made me think this was written by a male, but, not usually one to make assumptions, when I checked it out, I am now convinced that this was written by a woman, a private governess, by the name of Frances Harridge Cayless, who is listed on the 1911 census as living at 11 Radmoor Road, and at the time of the 1939 register, and her death in 1956, was living at 60 Leicester Road.

A 2019 cake walk?

Maintenance!

A 2019 helter-skelter

It's a dog's life

A barrel organ

The mayor reading the charter of 1221

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Remembering

It feels so strange not to be going to a Remembrance Service this year. I can't think when I first started attending, but it was probably about 25 years ago when the eldest son was in Beavers or Cubs. Over the years, we've been to services in a variety of venues, including in the Baxter Gate Baptist Chapel, the United Reformed Church on Frederick Street, in Queen's Park at the foot of the carillon, and in Hathern Church. There may well have been others!

Today, on Remembrance Sunday, I'm going to look back through my photographs of previous year's events, and maybe see if I can find some photos from some of those services 20-25 years ago. 

And in an unexpected turn of events, I'm able to share with you some pictures from today's ceremony, in Queen's Park. Sadly, the quality is not brilliant, but at least you can see what happened. I should also say that the Carillon was played during the laying of the wreaths. The photos are shared here in the order in which they happened, and you will find them at the bottom of this post.

2019

Melbourne church

In Queen's Park

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

In Hathern

2007

2005

And finally, from 2020

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