Elsie Cawdery 1912-1962

Elsie

Elsie Cawdery was the daughter of Francis Arthur Cawdery and May Hall Cawdery. She was born in 1912, and christened on the 4th of September by Rev Charles Edgar Leytham, Rector of Stowell Memorial Church, in Salford.  At the time of her birth, her parents lived at 23 West Brownbill Street, off Cross Lane.

Elsie married Charles Forshaw in Salford on 24 July 1937.

They had three children:





Peter, Patricia and Pauline





Peter (1938 - 2015)







Peter married Ann Kathleen Harper in 1961.  They had five children: 1) Jane E. (25 Aug 1962); 2) Susan Marie (1966); 3) Peter Charles (Nov. 1967); 4) Catherine Louise (1975); 5) unknown.  Jane married Joseph A. Britton in 1988. Susan Marie married John D. Pemberton in 1986. Peter Charles married Alison Teresa McCarthy in 1986. Catherine married Christopher T.A. White in 2003.
Peter Forshaw passed away on 3 November 2015, and was cremated at Agecroft Cemetery. He was 77.

 Manchester Evening News 12 November 2015

Patricia Lilian (1941 - 2001) 

Patricia at 8 years old (front left) taken 12 Feb 1949
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Patricia was born in Salford on 1 September 1941. In 1993, she married John A. Hall in Manchester. She died of cancer in 2001.

 

Pauline (1944 - 2004)

Pauline married Fred W. Stafford in Salford in 1968. She died of cancer in 2004.

Pauline (February 1949)

Elsie died in Manchester in 1962 . Charles died in 1967.

Charles Forshaw

Charles was the youngest child of Wallace Forshaw (1871-1923) and Eliza (née Ryder) Forshaw of Bilston, Staffordshire (1873-1940). They were married in Salford on 4 August 1894 at Christ Church, Salford.  Wallace and Eliza had eight children: John, Wallace, Samuel, Jane, William, and Ronald (who appear in the 1911 census), and Alfred (1911) and Charles (1913-).   In World War II, on 23 December 1940, Eliza Forshaw was killed during the Manchester / Salford Blitz. She died at Hope Hospital, but it is not clear whether, she was taken there as a result of her injuries sustained elsewhere, or whether she was on the staff of the hospital. The hospital was hit by a parachute mine on the day Eliza died. She is buried at Agecroft Cemetery.

Charles Forshaw

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Sixty postcards of trams were issued in sets, and published by Prescott-Pickup & Co., Ltd. of Bridgnorth, Shropshire in the late 1960s and 1970s. The business was located on the Stanmore Industrial Estate.

Prescott-Pickup logo

The illustrations are based on lithographs. The artwork was also released in limited edition prints.

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The earlier postcards had no information on the verso, but this changed with the release of Tramcyclopaedia in 1979.  In 1977, the tramcar postcards were published in Evening Post Nostalgia Miniatures. Tramcars and Tramways : a series of sixty prints.

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Prescott-Pickup also published collections of postcards and cigarette cards highlighting railway locomotives, vintage cars, famous footballers, militaria and the royal family.  The company, incorporated on 11 May 1967, is now dissolved.

John Edwards

John Edwards was an artist with Prescott-Pickup Co. He is seen drawing a Snowdon Mountain railway steam engine. The photograph was taken in 1968, when the company was just a year old.

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