PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MRS BARBEN AND FAMILY

Mrs Barben was contacted after her memories of the village of Handforth were printed in the Express/Advertiser Magazine of November 1981. Mrs Barben was born in a house in Church Road in 1896, and is therefore the oldest inhabitan born in the village.

Mrs Barben's father was Thomas Hammond, a shoemaker, born in Handforth, and later Chairman of Handforth Council and a J. P. sitting in Wilmslow and Stockport. Mrs Barben's mother, Eliza Caradus was from Oldham. Her mother was a confectioner and decided she would like to run a hotel, so the Caradus family took over the running of the Greyhound Hotel, Handforth, now a Schooner Inn. Mrs Barben's husband came from Bolton, but she met him in Handforth about the time of the First World War. He was badly wounded at the front. They married in 1921 and their son and only child, Thomas Hammond Barben was born in 1924. The Barbens went into the confectionery business together and ran a shop on Wilmslow Road, Handforth, until quite recently.

Mrs Barben used to give talks to local schools, etc., and the notes she used, her reminiscences of Handforth as it was, are attached to this deposit.