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PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO JOHN BEESTON HARWOOD AND FAMILY

Catalogue reference: 1991

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This record is about the PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO JOHN BEESTON HARWOOD AND FAMILY dating from 1915 - 1959.

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Reference
1991
Title
PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO JOHN BEESTON HARWOOD AND FAMILY
Date
1915 - 1959
Held by
Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
Language
English
Creator(s)
<persname>Harwood, Maggie, b 1886, of Manchester</persname>
Physical description
571 PHOTOGRAPHS
Administrative / biographical background

These pictures from the collection of John Beeston Harwood, grandfather of the depositor, who was born on the 2nd March 1886 and died on the 9th March, 1976. As a child lived at the London Orphan Asylum which he left on the 5th December, 1901. John Harwood was a clerk with Liverpool Corporation Tramways Department. He served with the Denbrighshire Yeoman in the First World War, reaching the rank of captain. During the Second World War he was a maj in the Home Guard. John Harwood married Ethel Wellings (25.8.1891-?.8.1965) and they had three sons, John Holley Harwood (father of the depositor, born 26.9.1915), Robert Harwood (died at sea, World War II) and Charles Harwood.

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PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO JOHN BEESTON HARWOOD AND FAMILY