TUCS Prize Giving and Fete, 18 July 1914

        Dore and Totley Union Church Cycling Society Fete 18 July 1914

These two superb photographs of the Totley Union Cycling Society Prize Giving and Fete were sent to us by Gordon Wainwright whose grandfather Arthur Austin Glossop is standing second from the left in the top photograph. Arthur was the youngest son of Thomas Glossop, whose story we relate elsewhere on our website.

Anne Rafferty recognizes three members of her mother's family in the photo. The lady holding the decorated bicycle is Anne's grandmother Nellie Violet Beard (1895-1971) who was born in Twerton, Somerset. She married Frederick George Phipps on 10 June 1922 at St John's, Abbeydale. The lady second from the right, also with a bicycle, is Nellie's younger sister and Anne's great aunt Winifred May Beard (1897-1978) who was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire and who later became secretary to Harry Brearley (see Bill Glossop's article Auntie Wyn's Briefcase). The man on the back row, fourth from the right, is Anne's great grandfather Edward James Beard, a railway inspector who was born in Hungerford, Berkshire in 1869. He died in Claremont Nursing Home in Sheffield in 1954.

We believe from what looks like the hill above Beauchief in the background that the event took place on the Abbeydale Park Estate, most of which was purchased in 1919 by the Sheffield Amateur Sports Club Limited and which later became the Abbeydale Sports Club.

         Dore and Totley Union Church Cycling Society Fete 18 July 1914

The prizes were awarded by Walter Henry Hartley (1862-1942). He is the gentleman on the right of the lower picture wearing a hat. Walter lived at Devonshire Villas, on Devonshire Road. He came from Attercliffe where he had followed his father's occupation as a printer and stationer. Robert Hugh Martin, one of the ten soldiers from Totley who died in World War I, had been an apprentice at the firm. When the foundation stone of the Dore and Totley Union Church was laid on 19 September 1914, Walter Hartley was the Union Church's financial secretary and he was one of many who laid a stone.

November 2017