Who was Mrs Gillett's uncle?
Anyone with information about this Kenilworth location, or the workmen pictured, may be able to solve a historical mystery.
Members of the town’s history and archaeological society are desperate to find out more details of this interesting old photograph, printed on the front of a postcard sent in 1910.
The only clues available are in the message on the card, addressed to Mrs R Gillet, 45 Gibbs Road, Grimsbury, Banbury from “Beat”.
It reads “Dear mother, Thought I had better let you know that I arrived safe and find everything covertable (?). Uncle is quite all right now and the weather is splendid but rather cold. Uncle has only two of other p.c. Love from Beat.”
This suggests the uncle only had two copies of the postcard - p.c - presumably of some importance.
Who was Mrs Gillett’s uncle, and how is he connected with the picture? Where was it taken, in what year, and why? Society members have suggested it may have been at the excavation of the Abbey Fields swimming pool, or at an unidentified stone quarry.
The postcard is part of Helen Scott’s collection. Contact the news desk on 855061 if you can help.
