At 11:13 07/01/2012, Brian Binns wrote: >So George obviously emigrated from what would have been a very >industrialised village, Ironville, to the wilds of Australia, where he >married and had a family. He then came back to Hanley, Stoke on Trent, which >with all due respect would not have been the most idyllic of places in those >days. I have never had the chance nor opportunity to go to Australia, but I >have been to Ironville and Hanley - and I know which one I would have chosen >- even now, let alone then! I have a postcard view of Hanley around then - see 4th row down: http://www.ancestryhost.org/andymick/fhpiccies.htm for "A Whiff of Hanley". I'm afraid I've forgotten the name of the photographer. Andy.