The Percy Arms, Birtley and the Smith Family……
From top left: Margaret Smith (Osborne) with four of her ten children. W. G Smith, Walter Smith and Others, The Percy Arms, George Smith and Ossie Smith.
Thompson Baty at his Bowls Club, with Isabel his sister and the note relating to the ‘Dagger’ held by the Desgris Family….. there is another dagger in Jane Pett’s possession…..
Jane’s Dagger
Thom, Isabel, Leo and Paul – 1959
May Fairbrother (Ellis), late 1940’s, was the brooch a gift from Uncle Thom ?
Lily with one of her Prize Cups for cookery
Front row: Sandra and May Ellis, Lilian Fairbrother, who are the others ?
Jane and Sandra Ellis
May loved to cook (a skill she had inherited from her mother Lilian).
She went to evening classes to learn cake icing, and this was one of her achievements. Jane’s wedding cake in the design of Wedgewood for the 1978 marriage.
Lilian was a first class knitter and crocheter and loved nothing more than a challenge of something new to make.
Jane writes, “I still have many jackets, jumpers etc. she made for me, including this bedspread made up of 1600 individual small squares in white cotton, hand sewn together for my wedding 40 years ago.
She made this one on one of her visits to us “down south” in between cooking us all many delights of cakes and pastries etc.”
Sandra & Jane Ellis in 1978
Sandra on her way to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace !
Birtley School Photo (early 1930’s)
This photo has been featured in the main pages, nevertheless it is worth a mention separately.
Back row left to right:
2nd – Thomas Baty, 6th – Thomas (Thompson) Fairbrother born 1920
Second row:
2nd – Winnie Fairbrother born 1921, 4th – Isabel Baty born 1917
Third row:
4th- May Fairbrother born 1924.
Another Birtley School Photo and the kids playing in the snow – no date, Winnie is back middle.
Hubert (Hughie) and Winifred (Winnie) Fairbrother
The Baty-Osborne Family of Northumberland 