Hudson's
Having carefully researched photograph number 8 on gallery 5 (Ushaw Moor Historical Gallery )
I assess the date of it at c1904. Hardy, Francis and Edward Hudson lived at 36 Whitehouse Lane at about this time. Francis was born in about 1899, Edward in about 1897 and Hardy in about 1895.
Prize winning author Mark Hudson is related to the Hudson’s in the photograph. He visited the North East several years ago to research his family and spent sometime in Ushaw Moor. Richard Hoggart of the Sunday Times was really impressed with the prize winning book that resulted from Mark Hudson’s researches: ‘Hudson has told the story with emotional and stylistic depth, his eye unfilmed by sentimentality but open to sentiment; generous, open-hearted and quirkily reflective’ The book is entitled Coming Back Brockens’ and I referred to it in my 2001 booklet ‘4a and Friends’. I am sure that a local library can get the book for those of you who wish to read it. Much of the text is about Horden but there are references to Ushaw Moor.
Best regards
W Bell
The photograph on the historical site supplies many of the names of the pupils in the photo.
--------Thanks Wilf, for pointing that out, now corrected. Paul :) (Comment this)
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