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I have no idea where this came from. 6th May 1990. Continental sevens.
Single journey (Einfach) , Price 3.30 DDR Marks. Machine no 264U.
Must be from somewhere in Sachsen-Anhalt. near Naumburg. I can't think what I was doing on a bus as I was on a bike. Perhaps an objet trouve?
The machine printing this ticket was made by Setright Registers of Hackney Wick, London E9. (or perhaps Bow, E3 after the move)
more information about Setright ticket machines here
and the short Wikipedia page here
The founder, Henry Roy Setright , an Australian , died aged 56 in 1942.
He lived at 61 Broomfield Avenue, N13.
Probate to Selina Kensell "spinster" i.e. not married [1886 - 1979] and Cecil Leon James Freeman, company secretary
The motoring writer Leonard JK Setright [K=Kensell] [1931-2005] was his son.
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From the London Gazette of May 26 1944
Selina Lena Kensell of the above address in N13, commonly known as Selina Lena Kensell Setright, a natural born British subject wishes to assume the name Setright in lieu of her name Kensell.
Setright Registers ceased to exist as a company in 1979
www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Clare-Family-Tree-804
all the other children seemed to stay in NSW Australia. b 1906-1914. strange.
www.geni.com/people/Selina-Helen-Kensell-Setright/6000000...
Death was on June 27, not July 27. Lived 27 Northcote avenue Ealing w5
In the parlor of the Hackney farm home, Wellington Township, Sumner County, Kansas.
Lena is my my maternal great-grandmother. She immigrated from Germany as a small child.
Located on the Hackney family homestead southeast of Wellington in Sumner County, Kansas. O.J. and Lena Hackney were among the earliest arrivals in the Wellington vicinity, homesteading here in 1871. O.J. (my great-grandfather) was the first postmaster of the city, and for many years was revered as the "watchdog of the city treasury."
There is no indication on the photo when this picture might have been taken, but I would guess some time before 1920. The house I remember from the 1950s had some of these features, but was different, so don't know if they added on or rebuilt. Sadly, the old family place is gone. However, the white lilac and a tamarac bushes that Great-grandmother Lena brought by train from her garden in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, still grow and blossom.
Photo probably taken about 1930. Location uncertain, but possibly in Woods Park, Wellington. In the center are OJ and Magdalena (Lena) Hackney, who homesteaded on a hill above the Slate Creek Valley in 1871. They met and married in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. Family picnic in Wellington at Wood's Park.
Taken 06/08/23; The Grand Opera House opened in 1895 as the 'New Grand Opera House and Cirque' and was designed by Frank Matcham. Matcham was an English architect who specialised in the design of theatres and music halls. In London he, amongst other heatres, he designed the Hippodrome, the Hackney Empire, the Coliseum and the Palladium.
The following is a history of the building taken from Wikipedia " ... originally called the New Grand Opera House and Cirque, it was renamed the Palace of Varieties in 1904, changing its name to the Grand Opera House in 1909. Charlie Chaplin performed there in 1908, and although Variety programmes dominated the pre-war years, entertainers as diverse as Nellie Melba, Sarah Bernhardt, Ralph Richardson and Gracie Fields performed there regularly. It became a repertory theatre during World War II and at the celebrations to mark the end of the war, Eisenhower, Montgomery and Alanbrooke attended gala performances at the Theatre. Lena Horne performed here in the 1940's on her way to and from her travels to France.
After the war, stars of stage and screen returned to the Theatre, with notably highlights including performances by Laurel and Hardy, Vera Lynn, Orson Welles, and Luciano Pavarotti in his UK debut. In 1965 the National Theatre brought its production of Love for Love to the Grand Opera House with a cast boasting Laurence Olivier, Lyn Redgrave, Albert Finney, Geraldine McEwan and a young Anthony Hopkins.
The Grand Opera House was acquired by the Rank Organisation, which led to its use as a cinema between 1961 and 1972.
As business slowed in the early 1970s with the onset of the Troubles, Rank initiated plans to sell the theatre to a property developer, who proposed that the building be pulled down and replaced with an office block. However, following the action of Kenneth Jamison (director of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland) and Charles Brett (founder member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society and ACNI board member), the building was bought by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and listed in 1974. The Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education, Arthur Brooke, lent his support to the project and his department provided the funding for extensive renovatation of the theatre. The Grand Opera House reopened in 1980, and in the years that followed many leading performers appeared on its stage, including Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Ian McKellen, Darcey Bussell and Lesley Garrett.The building has been damaged by bombs on several occasions, usually when the nearby Europa Hotel had been targeted. It was badly damaged by bomb blasts in 1991 and 1993. The theatre continued, however, to host musicals, plays, pantomimes and live music.
In 1995 the running of the theatre was taken over by the Grand Opera House Trust. In 2006 an extension was added which included a studio theatre space , extended foyers, dressings rooms and access for customers with disabilities. The Theatre reopened with a Gala event on 21 October 2006.
In 2020 the Grand Opera House closed for restoration and development. The project saw the auditorium’s paintings and decorative and ornate plasterwork painstakingly restored and conserved, as well as new seating, carpets, curtains and drapes installed. The design of the foyer and public spaces was reimagined, with a new bar installed in the restored 1980 glass extension overhanging Great Victoria Street, and the stalls and circle bars refurbished. As part of the project, the Theatre’s technical infrastructure was also upgraded and a permanent heritage exhibition installed telling the Theatre’s 125-year history installed."
B. Magdalena Dorothea Binder (or Beinder), 6 Jan 1847 Kirchberg an der Jagst, Wuertenberg, Prussia (now Germany)
Came to US in 1851
1851 - Both parents now dead, adopted by Dr. & Mrs. John Clark, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln who entertain The Great Emancipator in his home.
M. 1868 to OJ Hackney in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois
D. 26 Dec 1938 Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas
Date of photo unknown. OJ and Lena homesteaded this Sumner County, Kansas, farm in 1871. Lena loved flowers and annually tended to her garden.
©Lena Ganssmann Photography
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
—Charles Mingus
Their lives make a wonderful story - one that I have promised my family I would write some day. I hope I can live up to that promise. Just a hint - Lena became orphaned after emigrating from Germany, both knew Abraham Lincoln personally; OJ fought and was wounded in the War of the Rebellion (Battle of Alatoona Pass); they homesteaded in Sumner County; survived the hardships of that life (cyclones, drought, floods, grasshopper invasions, Indian scares, etc.) and were involved in the rough and tumble days of Kansas politics in the early 20th century. OJ was the second (then fourth) postmaster of Wellington, then long-time "Guardian of the City Treasury." A great story, indeed.
Here is the reverse of the postcard with it's rather cryptic message! The sender appears to have been one Ethel living at 1, Brewery Cottages, Hastings. The recipient was Miss Lena Lewis, 146, Lauriston Rd, South Hackny. Presumably that was South Hackney, London. The card carries a green halfpenny stamp, the going rate at the time for postcards and is dated and stamped Hastings, 5.45PM MY 25 12.
Interestingly Brewery Cottages, The Bourne, were subject to partial demolition and architectural recording back in July 1980 when I was living in Hastings and active with the local archaeological group. The cottage formed part of a terrace that is first recorded as living accommodation in 1882, but appear to have been in existance since 1859. A brief report along with section drawings can be in the Newsletter and Journal of the Hastings Area Archaeological Research Group, Vol. 11. No. 3. July 1981. Pages 65-67 by Alan Dickinson.