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Book of Hours owned and used by St.John ancestress Margaret Beauchamp (c1409-1482), with handwritten family records annotated. c. British Library

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Postcard of local cricket team, 1938

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Members of a local cricket team, possibly Purton. The little girl in the front row looks like she is with her father. Perhaps she was a club mascot. Jim Garret of 18 Washpool, Shaw, is seen standing on the far right.

The postcard is stamped June 1938.