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Photograph of popular head Mrs Coleman & pupils of Hook School, 1958/9. Interviewed by Lord Bolingbroke for the job, she was at the school for 20 years. Search Hook School.

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Photograph of Mervyn and Frederick (Fred) Edmonds, c1950s

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Brothers Mervyn Edmonds (1893-1956) (left) and Frederick Edmonds (b1885)(right).

Originating from Lydiard Tregoze, Fred Edmonds became a successful Swindon businessman, owning the Swindon Motor Company. He was also the proprietor of the company his father Edwin Hugh Edmonds founded, EH Edmonds & Sons, Agricultural Engineers.