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FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MR HANCOCK

Catalogue reference: 886

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This record is about the FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MR HANCOCK dating from 1910-1930.

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Reference
886
Title
FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MR HANCOCK
Date
1910-1930
Related material

<p>See deposit 920.</p>

Held by
Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
Language
English
Creator(s)
<persname>Hancock, George, b 1900, of Blackley, Manchester</persname>
Physical description
27 PHOTOGRAPHS
Administrative / biographical background

Donor was born in 1900 in Warrington. His mother died when he was five and soon after he and his father moved to Richmond, Sussex because his father remarried. His father was a bus driver and was called William Hancock. In 1926 donor came back to Manchester as he had a job as a chaffeur with Alan S. Dempsters in Newton Heath. In 1936 he worked for the North Western Bus Company and was known as the "Singing Bus Driver".

His first wife (to whom all the following photos relate) never went to school because she suffered from rheumatic fever and then had a heart condition - a specialist from London said she would not live until 1930, however she did not die until 1959. Her family came from Byron St, Manchester and she was called Elizabeth Castle (Cissie) nee Lord. Donor married again in 1961 to a widow, Mrs. McNulty who had ten children from her first marriage.

Copies information

Miles Platting Public Library (copies) 6, 24, 25.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/4f5bd5b9-58bf-4b6b-98d8-7d00c6c93a2d/

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FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MR HANCOCK