Pictures contributed by Mr Stanley Blackmore Mr Stanley Blackmore is the son of the late Canon Alfred Blackmore, who was Rector of Bottesford until he retired in 1958. The thumbnail picture of Canon Blackmore was taken in 1964, when he returned to Bottesford to conduct the marriage of Mary Topps and Malcolm Owen – see image BOT/203/14. Mr Blackmore has kindly contributed these pictures from 1943, taken at the Bottesford Rectory (refered to as the Old Rectory in this catalogue), and at Bottesford Parish Church. He has also contributed a sketch plan of the Rectory as it was when he was growing up there.
Place Bottesford, Rectory, Church
Contributor Mr Stanley Blackmore
Reference number BOT/203 BOT/203/001
The Rectory showing the East elevation, through the foliage of the Copper Beech with the swing.
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The front gates of the Rectory, opening on to Church Street. The two figures have not been identified, but they ...
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Stanley Blackmore in front of the Rectory. This shows the front porch in the central core of the building in ...
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The Rectory, east elevation, seen from the main lawn. The free-standing chimney was taken down about 1946, having been found ...
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Mrs Fanny Blackmore and Courtenay Blackmore, Mr Stanley Blackmore’s elder brother, outside the east elevation of the Rectory.
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Mr Stanley Blackmore writes: “My eldest brother Rodney, my sister Nancy, my brother Courtenay and myself just after VJ Day ...
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Mr Courtenay Blackmore and a Canadian cousin, Margaret Blackmore, sitting on the step of the door into the old front ...
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Mr Stanley Blackmore writes: “My brother-in-law Robert, mowing the front lawn with the Atco that had been donated by a ...
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Mr Stanley Blackmore writes: “The matriarch of our family. My maternal grandmother, Mabel Armstrong (nee Courtenay), one of the last ...
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“Myself [Stanley Blackmore], my mother, Nancy and cousin Joan (Robert’s sister from Mexico), on the footbridge across the Devon between ...
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Mr Blackmore writes: “Me [Stanley Blackmore] and a cousin, Sheelagh, and my terrier Tigger. The ‘boat’ was made from an ...
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This picture follows on from BOT/203/11 – ” … prior to an unintended bathe!”.
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Canon Blackmore and his wife Fanny, taken after his retirement. This picture was taken at their new home, “Apple Trees”, ...
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Canon Blackmore returned after his retirement to conduct this wedding, which we believe was that between Mr Malcolm Owen and ...
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Mrs Fanny Blackmore is taking tea on the lawn of the garden at the Rectory in Bottesford.
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“My mother [Mrs Fanny Blackmore] with the late Duke’s first wife (nee Ann Cumming-Bell), who had come to open a ...
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Taken from the path across the fields immediately north of Bottesford church, this picture shows the church itself and the ...
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This is a general view of a typical Church Fete held on the Rectory lawn, with skittling (for the prize ...
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A picture taken during a church fete onn the Rectory lawn, it shows rides on a model steam train, a ...
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The War Memorial for World War 2, after the Service of Dedication. The memorial was designed and supervised by Mr ...
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Miss Ethel Violet Catton (“Tettie”), who was a domestic help employed at the Rectory by Canon Blackmore. Here she is ...
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The plans were drawn from memory by Stanley Blackmore in 1943, when he returned to school in Oakham following his ...
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