Family Photos

Whittington has families which have lived here for generations. This gallery includes representatives of these families and other individuals with "a story" who have lived in or near the village.

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	Alice and Herbert Parker outside The Bents in 1913 - their eldest child, Herbert, was born at the Bents in 1909		Adolphus John Pass - known as Jack - was born in Whittington (1870). He was the village lamplighter in the days when the streets were lit by paraffin; electric street lighting arrived in 1929. He lived at No.1 The Green until his death in 1953.
	Jack Pass married Priscilla on 4th April 1903. Cecily Pass (daughter of Hennis Arms Pass) is the bridesmaid (left). Sarah Pass (Jack's sister, later Sarah Carter) is the bridesmaid right. Elsie Pass (daughter of Hennis Arms Pass, later Elsie Coxe) is seated on the floor. seen here at the side of The Bell.		Jack Pass loved gardening; he was a gardener at The Old Hall as a young man and later at the Barracks' Military Hospital. He is shown here with his son, "Little Jack" in the garden of their home, 1 The Green.
	John Frederick Pass aka "LIttle Jack" seen here on his tricycle - probably in Park Lane. He was disabled from polio which he caught in the hot summer of 1911. Seven village children contracted it that year.
	Hennis & Isabella Pass about 1912 with daughter, Elsie May, and spaniel, Dragon. Elsie had 3 siblings, but they all died as babies or children. Amongst other business enterprises, Hennis was landlord of The Bell. He had Callingswood built in 1904. Pass Avenue is named after the family.		Elsie May's wedding party in the garden at Callingswood in 1917. Her father had died the previous year.
	Mrs Percy Pearce looking after her grandchildren and Jane Leedham at The Hawthorns		Mr Percy Pearce (1895-1972) coming out of his door into the yard at the side of the Hawthorns
	Phillips Family 1933 Joseph, Gertrude, June and Barbara at the back of their home in Church Street		Dorothy Pitz (1942) is stood behind Roy, the dog, outside The Holt. Inside the car is Dorothy's sister, Maude Walton in Whittington on a visit, together with Gordon Pitz. The little girl on the mudguard is Bunty, Gordon's sister.
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	Samuel Seckham seen here in the regalia of Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire. In 1889 he bought The Old Hall, which he extended and comprehensively renovated. He died in 1901.		Samuel's wife, Kinbarra, pre-deceased him by just eight months. She bore Samuel 12 children, two sons died in infancy and one age 15. A daughter, who never married, however, lived to be 100.
	Colonel Bassett Seckham inherited the Old Hall from his father, Samuel, in 1901 and lived there until his own death in 1925.
	George Sharman - the grandfather in the group - was woodman at Freeford for many years. He is buried in the Dyott Plot in the churchyard and the gravestone describes him as "a very upright man".
	Mary Smith (1864-1952) She never married and lived with her parents and 2 other unmarried sisters at Hillfield for most of her life. Seen here in the orchard of the farm at Whittington Court (before the house was extended)
	Thomas Spencer (one of the founders of M&S). He spent what proved to be a very short retirement here, dying in 1905 aged 54. He is buried in the churchyard.		The Spencer family outside their home, Hill Farm, some time between 1903 and 1905. Agnes (Thomas's second wife) is seated in front of him holding the dog.
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	Joe Wardall (1918-2007) Whittington born, one of nine		As a boy and young man Joe Wardall worked in the gardens of the Old Hall. He was allocated "Number 3 barrow". Seen here with Walter Fradley, Audrey Thomas (later Edgington) and Joe on the right.
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