Hello Recently I have done research on a couple of members of a French family from the Isère. One of them, Joseph Gaspard, came to England in the early 1900s to work as a guide (and general dogsbody I think) at the Wasdale/ Wastwater Hotel in Cumbria. He’s on the 1911 census for that place, and he’s also on the Roll of Honour in the church at Nether Wasdale; he was killed on the Somme in 1916. Also on the census for that year is Alexandre Gaspard; his father was Joseph’s grandfather, though the two were much of an age. Alexandre is boarding with Mary Jane Hewitt at 58 Byram Street, Altrincham; he’s a rock climber, working on his own account (rg_20528_0121_03) The two Gaspards must have met up at the end of the previous year because Alexandre was busy on 30th Dec 2010 opening new routes on Great Gable with two English climbers. What I would like to find out, if there’s any way of doing that, is why a rock climber would be living in Altrincham. I know there are places close by which would test some of today’s “crag rats”, but the early part of the 20th century? And if Byram Street still exists, is there anyone who could take a photo of no 58. I’m trying to provide as much info as I can about these two for the Musée d’Alpinisme in in St Christophe en Oisans Liz Owen (on a day excursion from the Cumberland List)