Photo Album - St Ives People

Photo Album - St Ives People

View images of St Ivians from the 1800s onwards. Some family names appear more than once under different dates. You can also search the Surname Index, where any surname with a photo or photos below has 'Photo Album' against it.

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Wallis Stearn Worts & Emily Metcalf, c1876.
Wallis was a higler, to read more about his life, click here.

Ted Worts (brother of Wallis Stearn Worts) & son Ernest, 1891.
Ted was a castrator, then licensee of The Dolphin in the late 1880s.
Tragedy hit the family in 1904 when both Ted & Ernest died of illness.

Edward Kiddle (2nd from left) relaxes with friends, c1895. Edward took over the Bridge Street family firm of furnishers & upholsterers when his father died in 1904.

Burn's Night, Corn Exchange, St Ives, c1900. Participants unrecognised.
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Edward Kiddle & family, at Riverview, St Ives, c1905.
Comments on photo, top left to right. George, served 8mths, enlisted 2 Dec 1914 at age 19, 4th Bedfords. Charles, enlisted 2 Dec 1917 5th Bedfords, shellshock, Gallipoli. Norah. Vincent, enlisted aged 16yrs 5th Bedfords, gassed in France.
Bottom left to right. Winnie. The unhappy? father (Edward), 5th Bedfords, & Jack the mathematician. The mother & the spoilt baby. Robert, killed in France aged 23yrs, & Ena the pet. Geoffrey the mimic.

All Saints Rovers Football Club, 1907.
John W Noble is seated left on the grass, aged 17 years. All Saints Rovers were the football club of the Parish Church. They had a first team & reserves playing Saturdays & Thursdays (half day closing).

Linton Lantaff, c1915. Linton's name is on the St Ives War Memorial.
To read about his life, and how he died, click here.

Reginald Secker, c1915. Reginald's name is on the St Ives War Memorial.
To read about his life, and how he died, click here.

Frank William Sims, c1917. Frank's nam on the St Ives War Memorial.
To read about his life, and how he died, click here.

Five players from St Ives Town FC, 1926. Looks like a 5-a-side team. Front left is Harold Foster of 10 St John's Road. Possibly a Mason middle back.

Albert (Dick) Culpin on the right, possibly Bill Chapman centre. Dick Culpin was a grocer. His shop was in East Street & is now the Welcome Chinese Restaurant.

A group of political supporters, sometime in the 1930s.

Tom Scotney & Son employees, 1930s. The celebration of William Scotney's 70th birthday (though may have been Golden Wedding Anniversary)

Front row from the left, third along Cyril Broughton, seven along Sheila Scotney (Tom's daughter). Second row from the front, from the left, fifth along Ken Scotney (Tom's son), six along Frank Woolstenholmes. Third row from front (excluding man standing) from left, fourth along Tom Scotney, then William Scotney (Tom's father), then Mary Scotney (Tom's mother). Fourth row from front from left, seven along Eileen Kitteringham (née Laborne).

Scotney's were a timber construction company founded in 1920. In WWII they supplied purpose built prefabricated buildings & special wooden boats for D-day landings. In later years they specialised in packing cases. Competition from the plastics industry caused the firm to close in the mid-1970s.

John 'Baggy' Reynolds, 1935. John was originally a fowl dresser, preparing chickens & the like for sale & consumption. At the time of this photo, he described himself as an 'all-round farm labourer, working at Westwood Farm.

A group of farm labourers from the mid to late 1930s. George Lantaff is second from the right, Mr Harradine, the boss, is behind.

George was a farm labourer with the Andersons before working at the chicory factory. He was called up in 1939 and fought in Burma with the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. George was killed in action at Budalin on 8 January 1945, aged 33yrs, and is buried at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma.

Four generations of the Noble family at a Golden Wedding celebration, 1937.
Mark Osgerby Noble (b1865) of Green Street, John William Noble (b1890) of Darwood Place, William Osgerby Noble (b1910) of Needingworth Road,
& Lita Mary Noble (b1936).

Harry & Sarah-Jane Anderson, née Worts (seated) and their 13 children at Westwood Farm, St Ives, c1937. From left to right, Bob, Phyllis, Len, Flo, Alf, Jean, Tom, Josie, Jack, Jeff, Gerry, Harry & Ted Anderson

Edward Kiddle, Mayor of St Ives 1938-1941, inspecting soldiers.

The Bundy family, 1940s.
Fanny Bundy (b1873, d1954)) of 45 Little Farthing Close. Fanny had 11 children, 7 of whom survived. With their mother are Phyllis Wright (née Bundy), Violet Rankin (née Bundy) & Jenny Brand (née Bundy).

St Ives Darby & Jones Club outing c1950.
Second from right in stripe dress is Ethel Holmes (née Hall?), former Lady Mayor 1945 & 1946. Third from right in front is Susan Kitteringham, who passed away later in 1950. Second from left in front with white shoes is possibly Mrs Mitchell.

St Ives Scouts football team, early 1950s.
Left to right, back row, Geoff Hookham, Danny Papworth, Don Biggs, Tony Cooper, Bill 'Pud' Burdett, Derek Mitchell, Dave Bull. Front row, John Handscombe, David Cotton, David Sellens, Robin Anderson, Lance Everdell.

St Ives Rifle Club dinner, c1950s. Furthest table is Mr & Mrs Ratcliffe Snr & family. Second table down, Nora Anderson, Mrs Brown & Vic Brown. Third table down, Ivor Pope, Dennis Allen, Dennis Elsden, Ron & Mrs Shaw. Fourth table down, Ray Nichols & Rita Nichols, Marjorie Jarvis & Ted Jarvis & some of the Mitchell family. Table in foreground, Chris Anderson, Robin Anderson, David Anderson & others. Top table on right, from top, Betty & Peter Ratcliffe, Stan West & wife, Dick Kerr, Jim Scutt, Mrs Hudson Snr, Dal & Mrs Hudson, Mr Bryant, Ernest & Ethel Holmes, and unknown.

Robert Kiddle & Son shop staff.
The wedding of Susan Kiddle, at the Pike & Eel, 1958.
Left to right, George Kiddle, Robin Kiddle, Sam Clarke, Marion Lantaff, Harry Pike, Bill Parker, Rosemary Beebie, Monica Harrup, Joe Mansfield, Ida Fearing,
Wally Grey, Patrick Hogan, Margaret Kiddle, George Kiddle MBE.

Ena Knight & May Edwards in the sweet shop, Crown Street, St Ives, c1960s.

Mrs Ena Knight presents The Kiddle Cricket Cup
to R Kefford, captain of the winning Permanet team, c1960s.
Mrs Knight was daughter of the late Alderman E Kiddle, donor of the trophy.

St John Ambulance members gather for a medal presentation in the early 1970s. Back middle, Henry Berman, next left Sid Cattermole. Back right is Tony Speller, to his left is Henry (Bugsy) Berman, half hidden. Front out of uniform, Freddy Chapman. Front right Doug Denton, on his right Roger Smith. Front left County Officer Rex Ingram.

St Ives Rotary Club Concert, March 1979.
Left to right, back row, Lance Everdell, Vic Brown, Bill Bessell, Reg Baxter, Martin Ballard, Brian Hepher, Fred Carrington. Middle row, Derek Broughton, Guy Poulton, John Rhodes, Sid White, Andy Killoran, David Smith. Front Row, Hugh O'Neill, Pat Hogan, Don Valentine, Rob Kiddle.