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1 June 1918 : Captain Hewson Street MC & Bar
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Hewson Street was born 14 September 1893 at Osbournby, Lincolnshire. His parents were George Street (the local blacksmith) and Eliza Dixon Street (née Thorpe) Hewson was raised in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. At the 1901 Census, age 7, Hewson was at home living on Witham Road, Woodhall Spa with his parents, older sister and two younger siblings...
'The Man Who Shod War Horses by Martin Jones'
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Please note that there is no evening meeting in November. This meeting is a daytime meeting at at the same venue as November 2024; The Storey in Lancaster. Martin recounts the story of John Westhead, Blacksmith killed in France 1916. Told from family letters and documents discovered in 2014. It is the family's story from pre-war life to co...