Reginald Wareham

Reg pictured in what I believe is his uniform whilst with the North Staff Regiment in World War 2. Reg was at Dunkirk and was a despatch rider. He later became a Military Policeman.

Coombe House, Near Shaftesbury, Wiltshire

Coombe House was where Walter Wareham worked as gardener/groundsman from the late 1890's until the early 1940's. It was built as a private residence by Mark Hanbury Beaufoy, then became a hotel in the 1930's, was a rest home for US bomber crews in WW2, became a convent after the war and is now St Mary's Girls School. A friend of my dad's, Fred King, is funnily enough the current groundsman at the school today and has been for a few years now.

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury

This is the famous Gold Hill in Shaftesbury. Yes it is down south and not up north as in the advert! I used to deliver papers down this street and used to drink at the Two Brewers pub at the bottom in my early drinking days.

Shroton village in about 1900

This view shows the village stores and main street in about 1900. Although my great grandfather Walter was probably living near Shaftesbury by this time and his parents George and Jane were deceased this view of the village and people was probably how Walter would have know it. Walter and his parents were still in Shroton in at least 1891 and I believe he returned to the village from time to time, especially at Fair time, to visit friends and family for many years.

Coombe House c.1900

Thanks to Pam at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury Museum and Brenda for helping to trace down a copy of this photo. It was also published in 'Dorset Life' magazine 1974 (no 37) and apparently shows Mark Hanbury Beaufoy, friends and staff at his residence at Coombe House in about 1900. My great grandfather Walter George Wareham will almost certainly have been in this photo as he was working at Coombe by the 1901 census. However he is not identified on the key to this photo I have which gives names to a small number of people in the photo. Neither can his one surviving daughter, now well over 80 years old, recognise him.

Sidney Wareham's grave in Shaftesbury

This is my grandfather's grave in Mampitts Road Cemetery. He is buried not far from my nan. Also now buried in this cemetery are his brother Walter and children Alec, Don and Pam.

13 Christy's Lane, Shaftesbury

This is the former Council house in which a generation of Wareham's were raised. Sidney and Violet Wareham moved here with their family after he'd returned from the far east in the war. My dad was raised here. Both Sidney and Violet were still living here when they passed away and the house became the home to one of my uncles and family until the 1990's when they moved just round the corner. The house has changed rather since the Warehams lived in it as there was no drive at the front, it was just grass, and there was a nice thick hedge at the front which helped keep some privacy of the house from the busy road.

Mark Wareham

Picture of me in my office at Bourne Hill in Salisbury. This picture appeared in the Council's community paper advertising the SouthWilts.com free web service and this website was used as an example of the types of pages people have set up.

The Cross, Shroton, Dorset

Another photo of the cottages in the cross area of the village (see also page one of Wareham pictures). The cottages on the corner on the right of this picture are called 'Cross Cottage'. George and Jane Wareham (great x2 grandparents) are recorded as living at Cross Cottages in 1891. Are these the buildings? Seems very likely. If not they are the ones on the left (one of which is the Old Bakery).