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Inside this issue:

Poetry Corner 2 W hat A Laugh 10

The Singing Angel 3/4 More Alchemy 10

Peter Goes Binns Spotting 11 Autumn 2008 Flyers 5

Naval Losses 5 W here Do W e Come From? 12

The Happy List 13 Bank Collapse 5 Recent Contacts 13 A Fearful Experience /Methias 6

Clough Hey 7 And Finally..... 14

Horse Dealers 8/9 ....Over to You 14 Issue No: 16 Poetry Corner A n E x c u r sion by Wilkinson Binns

One morning in the month of March Though snow was on the ground W ith two of my companions I took a walk around.

W e crossed the bridge that spans the burn Also the beck of Dein And soon we came unto the turn W hich to home again.

But one mov‘d on nor took the stile Ho Dick we said what road He said come on, with a queer smile Let‘s go as far as the wood.

W e walked on and pass‘d the wood Past Sugden and Lees Moor W here Cradle Edge has views so good And W orth we crossed o‘er.

W e climbed the brink and pass‘d Damems And Harewood Hill we cross‘d But ne‘er saw wood nor boughs nor stems But one of us were lost.

But soon he came and on we bent Says one we‘ll see old Tom Past Sykes the nearest road we went To Providence we kom.

So in we went first rapp‘d at t‘door And there old Tom was sat Some youngsters playing on the floor But on his knee his pet.

W ith greetings done t‘wife said oh dear W hy did tont let me know Then I‘d had some better cheer So at me she did blow.

It was all sham just so I thought And so it proved to be For soon she made a steamer stout W hich suited to a tee.

And after that we‘d good roast beef King‘s ne‘er knew better fare Still she said for you come again Send word and I‘ll prepare.

Send word Ah, ah not I indeed For what could we have fitter And great in me will be the change Before I send for better.

Page 2 The Singing Angel Alan Penrose Binns

I was born on the 19th September 1931 at no. 15 Sta- tion Road, W esham, Kirkham near Preston, an ad- dress that doubled as the local police station, signified by the title above the front door. My parents were Har- old Binns the local bobby and Ethel. I was the second child of the marriage. My elder brother Harold Hugh was 13 years old when I was born which was probably a bit of a shock to my parents who were just getting accustomed to having an almost grown up family. A further shock was to be the birth three years later of a little girl Margaret, known always as Margie.

… ..W esham was a small township built around the avoid. busy railway line leading to Blackpool and the Fylde Coast resorts. I was always fascinated by the splendid A favourite game was to play in a hay barn which be- locomotives, especially the aptly named and decorated longed to a local farmer. It was out of the town over the Silver Jubilee. This locomotive passed by at 9am and railway bridge and along an unmade road which we again at 9pm. The morning sighting meant being late used to describe as ”up the brig‘ W e were not supposed for school and the evening passage meant being late to be in this barn but it was a Dutch Barn and as such to bed. The penalties for both regular offences were was open on all sides. W e would climb to the top of the considered to be well worth it. hay and slide down again. Great Fun!! Unknown to us the farmer had grown tired of trespassers and had de- I was an adventurous young boy and as W esham was cided to lay a trap. He placed several pitchforks into the surrounded by woods, streams and flooded marl pits side of the stack with the sharp tines facing upwards. and mill lodges, there were always dangers to be faced The first boy down the slide impaled himself horrifically in the climbing of high trees, the walking across frozen on the tines. He did not die but he was very seriously water in winter and fishing there in summer. So called hurt. W e never played there again. Today the farmer sedate country walks after Sunday School often re- would have had to account for his actions in court but I sulted in torn or soiled best clothes and the inevitable do not recall any prosecution at the time. W e were not punishment when I returned home. One memorable supposed to be on private property and so the fault was peccadillo happened when a visit, against orders, to with us. the farm at Mowbreck Hall ended when I slipped on a One February afternoon I was with a friend called cowpat in the shippon and sat down in the middle of it Ronnie Flood. W e made our way along Derby Road in my best navy blue suit and tried to clean my trousers by sitting on the edge of the water trough in a vain at- behind our house and crossed the fields known as tempt to clean things up. The punishment for that was Towns Hill. In the middle of Towns Hill was a large severe indeed. muddy marl pit which was full of weedy water and cov- ered with a mass of small green water plants that we There was another escapade that ended in dire retribu- always called Jenny Green Teeth. Despite the cold tion. I was taken for a walk when I was about six years Ronnie and I decided to have a swim in this frightening old with my cousin Annie Johnson from Lancaster. She place and we undressed and began to wade out spent a lot of time at our house, long enough to form a through the weeds at the edge. W e had got to knee friendship with a young man called Fred Butler whom I depth when there was a shout and a young man and did not like. In the walk across the field I had an alter- his girl friend came running towards us and ordered us cation with Fred and to annoy him I took a piece of tree out. branch and daubed it with the contents of a cowpat that was handy in the field. I threw the stick at Fred W hen I was being undressed by my mother at bedtime who smartly avoided it and the stick with it‘s contents she was alarmed to see that I was wearing my vest struck Annie in the middle of her smart pink suit!!! There were real dangers lurking that I was lucky to Page 3 The Singing Angel Alan Penrose Binns

inside out. She knew that I had been undressed and the story came out. Towns Hill was notorious in W esham as the place where lots of poor unfortunates had cho- sen to end their days. W e might easily have joined them. At the time Ronnie Flood was under doctor‘s or- ders as he was delicate and was attending Preston In- The enquirer was probably taken aback even though firmary receiving Sun Ray treatment!!! The fact that my he professed great amusement when he was an- mother was assisting me to get undressed points to swered, —W hat! Off a b… .. cream cracker!“ On Sunday how young I was at this time!! Although I was unaware that same little boy was singing like an angel in Sunday of it at the time it was very lucky that the young couple School were in that field on such a cold day. They had probably I was told of a possibly more serious incident when my been to a favourite trysting spot in a dry hollow nearby, sister Margaret was born. Griffith Hughes a local which was known to locals by an apt but coarse title preacher, and his wife Eluned, devout W elsh Method- which I will not print here. ists and members of our chapel, came to our house to Mother was quite un-used to dealing with a boy of this see the new arrival. Griff and his wife had no children nature and as Dad worked shifts and seemed to me to and were perhaps unhappy about the situation. How- be always at work or in bed he was not always there to ever, this was never an issue. They came into the impose discipline. room and Griff cheerily in his W elsh voice said to me —W ell, Alan, we have come for the baby!“ I am told that I had another and quite different side to my character. I disappeared at once under the living room table and Mother was a well known soprano and was constantly shouted — The b… … ‘s not having her!“ I received a in demand for solo work in oratorios such as Handel‘s smart kick through the table cloth from my mother to Messiah and in concert work around the Fylde. It was which I replied —W ell the b… … ..s NOT having her!“ I soon obvious that I had inherited the ability to sing and don‘t know what the outcome of this incident was. Grif- my earliest memories are of being placed on a stool to fith Hughes became my History Master when I went to sing for admiring visitors at home or at Sunday School Grammar School and our relationship there was al- Anniversaries. I often had to endure the indignities of ways friendly and civilised. He could not have forgotten being dressed up in what seemed to me, outlandish or but he could quite easily forgiven me, I was three years soppy fancy dress in order to perform. On one occasion old at the time of this peccadillo. at the age of 5 or 6 when chosen for the prestigious honour of leading the procession at the Annual Club A dozen years later, when playing cricket for Lytham Day, which involved the wearing of a white satin suit, I House Match at school, in which I scored my only 50, looked at myself in the mirror and promptly disappeared Griff was umpiring at square leg and was not playing into the under stairs cupboard and lay down amongst great attention. Kilburn, the first eleven fast bowler, the blacking brushes declaring that I wasn‘t going out hurled down a fast full toss which I caught in the meat dressed like a b… … cissy. Nevertheless I must have of the bat. The ball hit Griff in the ankle and he rose been persuaded for the photographic evidence reveals what appeared to be several feet in a vertical direction the true end of the story. presenting such a funny sight that although I was upset to hurt him I couldn‘t stop laughing. I was severely be- It might seem odd that a small boy brought up in a rated by Bernard Stevenson whose words were —It is Methodist household and a regular at Sunday School lamentable that such a sad occurrence should be the should be acquainted with the b… … word. The two b… occasion for such a disgraceful exhibition of hilarity“ words were the only swear words that were used, at and poor Griff was absent from school for some time least in my hearing. It was in almost general use in with a fractured fibula!!! W esham and, for a joke, the men who worked at Milner‘s Garage a few yards away from my home were in the habit of encouraging me to swear for which I was rewarded with a penny. As Dad was the local police- man and Mum was a well known Methodist this caused them great amusement.

Page 4 Flyers

The records of aviators who were issued with their flying licences (certificates) by the Royal Aero Club have recently become available to researchers and two examples are shown here. W illiam Henry Binns, an engineer, born 23 March 1894 in Manchester, was living at Himley Lodge, Coal- way Road, W olverhampton, when he received his certificate in 1938. He passed his test flying a De Haviland Gypsy Moth at the Midland Aero Club. He was a son of Andrew Binns and Rosannah Plant. John Raymund Binns, an architectural draughtsman, born 26 Sep 1915, at Taplow House, Buckingham- shire, was living at 14 Carlton Mansions, London, W 9, when he passed his test flying an 85 h. p. DH Gypsy at the Herts and Essex Flying Club in 1939 In a somewhat different vein and much more recently, in April 2008, it was announced that Robert Binns had been named as the Chief Executive Officer of Global Aero Logistics the parent company of W orld Airways.

Naval Losses

Because so many Binns families are associated with the textile and farming areas of England it always comes as a surprise to find seafaring associations. The following are but a few of those that could be mentioned; Ernest Binns, Able Seaman, RNVR, Tyneside Z 7637 who was lost on board HMS Black Prince at the Battle of Jutland is commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial. Geoffrey Binns, Ordinary Coder, served on HMS Lanka, but died 12 Feb 1944 when SS Khedive Ismail, was sunk by two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine South W est of the Maldives, en route from Mon- basa Kenya, to Colombo, Ceylon. He was aged 18, the son of Henry Illingworth Binns and his wife Doris Hildred Binns.

Bank Collapse

In 1706 James Colebrook, later to become Sir James, established a bank at 62 Threadneedle Street, London. In 1771, his son Sir George Colebrook took W illiam Binns, his senior clerk into partnership and the bank was renamed, Sir James Colebrook, Lessingham and Binns. There was great consternation when the bank collapsed in 1773 and W illiam Binns was declared bankrupt. A footnote in The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell and John W ilson Croker observes that —The banking-house of Sir George Colebrook, Lessingham, and Binns, stopped payment in March 1773. It will be seen hereafter, (28th October 1775), that Sir George retired for a time to France, where he lived in a style not entitled to much pity.“

Page 5 A Fearful Experience

1) HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKIAN 1906 July 12 thrown from the step to the next floor. Mr. Binns held on by one hand until he could get off at the ALMOST A MIRACLE landing. Mrs. Binns sustained painful but not seri- Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Binns had a narrow escape from ous bruises, her worst injury being a sprained ankle. death at the Acme Mills Monday night while descending No bones were broken. Mr Binns was unhurt. The the passenger elevator from the fourth floor. The elevator elevator is the height of five stories of the mill. Mrs is a moving ladder contrivance, made of successive Binns fell about 25 feet but the fall was broken by steps fastened to belting that passes over and around the step below. The elevator shaft is not large wheels at the top and bottom of the mill. It passes enough to admit of the passage of a falling body or through holes in the several floors large enough for one she would have been dashed to death on the con- to ride up or down on the steps, holding to hand grips on crete floor 50 feet below. the belting between the steps. Mr Binns is the night miller and goes off duty at 12 o‘clock. Mrs Binns (formerly Miss Annie Nance, and a bride of a few months) had gone to Forest Binns was a grandson of Matthias Binns who the mill to wait for him. They attempted to descend the was christened in York in 1792. His father, W alter elevator both on the same step. The step broke near the Binns, had emigrated to Indiana and then on to fourth floor and Mrs Binns, not having hold of the grip, Kentucky fell to the next step below, three or four feet, and was

M atthias Binns

From notes made by Barbara Thorley Matthias Binns was christened at the Church of St December. On Kirton Green stands the Duchy Court Crux, in York on 6 Dec 1792. House, a handsome brick building, where the manorial courts are held and where the records are kept. (This He was witness at the wedding of John Martin to is probably where Matthias worked as an Attorney's Elizabeth Allen on 7 APR 1810 at St Crux Church in clerk.) There is also a Grammar School nearby and York. there were up to 90 children attending in 1830. In the1841 census Matthias, wife Maria & 7 children are living at Market Place and his occupation is given He came to Kirton in Lindsey, possibly to find work, as Innkeeper. In 1841 and 1842 Pigot & Co.‘s Direc- as no trace of his parents has been found in that tory lists him as proprietor of the Black Swan Inn town. In 1801, a few years before he came to Kirton which is described as a comfortable and respectable in Lindsey the population was 1092, in 1831 it was commercial house. W hite's Directory of 1872 lists Mat- 1,542, and the town slowly grew to a population of thias as living at Belleview Cottage, Prison Hill, Kirton 1904 in 1871. in Lindsey and in 1876 he is shown as law stationer. In 1826 W hite's Directory lists him in Kirton in In the Lincolnshire Chronicle on 20th October 1876, Lindsey as an Attorney's Clerk and in the 1830 Direc- page 5 "Died at Kirton in Lindsey on the 14th instant tory is still listed as an Attorney's Clerk. Matthias Binns, aged 83 years." Kirton in Lindsey is a market town with a market be- ing held weekly on Saturday and there are two an- nual fairs, for the sale of cattle, on 18th July & 11th

Page 6 Clough Hey:- The pllace of oriigiin of John Biinns husband of Abiigaiill Kiing

My father was born in 1900 at Oldfield, not more than about a mile from Clough Hey, so it is very likely that he was familiar with the place before it went into de- cline. I am grateful to Margaret Page for her sketch of the farm and some of the photographs. The photographs of the buildings after renovation have been kindly supplied by Peter Binns. Editor.

Gateway to Clough Hey :

Copyright Steve Portridge and licensed for Reuse under Creative Commons License.

Page 7 Horse Dealers

As luck would have it, by coincidence, two descen- He married Alice Annie Kingston, a dants of a Leeds family contacted me within days of dressmaker in the 1891 census, and she each other in September, and they have subse- was living with her father Richard Kingston, an account- quently been able to compare notes. The first was ant, plus her brother James, at 48 Camp Road in 1901. Ashley Binns-W ard, a lawyer from Cape Town, Richard was known to be an accountant for the Grand South Africa; the second was Susan Brown from Theatre (a good source of free/cheap tickets for Harold K. Dorset. Both can trace their origins back to James Binns! Harold became good friends with a local magician [I] Binns who in 1841 was living in Quarry Hill, who had a Chinese stage name and was always fasci- Leeds with his mother Mary. James [I] married Mary nated with magic.) Burn in 1844 and they had several sons of whom Henry and Alice lived at the tobacconists shop and Susan James [II], born 1852 and George Edward, born used to visit with Harold as a small child. Henry lived there 1854, continued the family business of horse deal- until he died. There was no sanitation; toilets were in a ing for at least a few years. block up the side road. The shop always seemed dark. George Edward eventually left the Leeds area to Pictures of 75 and 48 Camp Road can be found on http:// become steward of the estate of Sir James Reckitt www.leodis.org, sadly just before Leeds Corporation de- at Swanland Manor, Ferriby, East Yorkshire, and it molished them. was the youngest of his daughters, Mabel, who Harold Kingston Binns went to commercial college in married George W illiam W ard. Two of their sons, Leeds and started work as a clerk for Stotts of Oldham in George W illiam and David Ronald, took Binns-W ard the city centre, then moved to Newcastle upon Tyne be- as their surname and after service in the armed fore W orld W ar II as a salesman of commercial catering forces during W orld W ar II, they emigrated to equipment. He met Violet Leach through his brother-in- Southern Rhodesia. George W illiam Binns-W ard law, a fellow billiard player. She was a dressmaker and was Ashley Binns-W ard‘s father. Two other sons worked in a small shop in central Leeds. continued to live in the Leeds area. After they married in Beeston, Leeds, they settled in Jes- James [II] on the other hand, executor of his father‘s mond and later in Gosforth in Newcastle. Harold enlisted estate that was valued at £1351 when he died in as a volunteer fireman at the start of the W ar, persuaded 1892, continued to deal in horses until he himself by his landlady, and then joined the Royal Navy, in the died in 1907, leaving £87. James [II] and his wife Fleet Air Arm, as an ”engineer‘ thanks to the powers-that- Elizabeth had at least eleven children and it is from be assuming he must be one, since Stotts was an engi- their eldest, Henry Harold Binns, that Susan Brown neering company! He spent the rest of the W ar based in a is descended. Apparently James [II] was keen for camp near Bootle, Cumbria and was proud to have taught his offspring to continue in horse related activities W rens to drive various sizes of service vehicles! and Henry Harold was forced into an apprenticeship th as a saddler. Susan still has some of his tools. It is Susan Caroline Binns was born in Gosforth on 11 May rumoured that another of the sons became a bookie 1947. and another went to Venezuela as a jockey. Harold‘s sister Margaret Alice (Meg) Binns went to art col- Susan has summarized the story as follows; lege in Leeds and became a commercial artist/dress de- signer for John Barran. She was reputedly very gifted at —James Binns (born 1851), the horse dealer, appar- drawing, painting and sculpture. Sadly she died young, ently wanted his sons to have horse-related jobs so being quite a private person and had not sought medical Henry Harold Binns started as a saddler‘s appren- help. tice but, for whatever reason, relations with his fa- ther broke down and he —ran away from home“ œ Harold and Violet remained in Newcastle until his retire- actually to work in a tobacconist‘s shop quite close ment, when they moved to Meltham in W est Yorkshire, to to the family at 75 Camp Road, Leeds. He ap- be near their family. Violet had already suffered with heart peared there in the 1901 Census when he was 28. problems and died two months after their move. Harold In W hite‘s Directory of Leeds & the Clothing District, moved to Saltash in Cornwall in 1979 with the family, and 1894, the tobacconist was Percy Reginald Gold- then they all moved to W imborne in Dorset, where he re- smith, but it is not known if Henry worked for him mained until his death.“ initially.

Page 8 Horse Dealers

York by Margaret Alice Binns.aged 16 yrs. 1932

Page 9 W hat A Laugh

W e have read in previous Issues about Binns and played“ Binns the famous music hall act that toured the world, I believe that a ”French nail‘ is what is more commonly or at least that part that spoke English, between about called a ”wire nail‘ but I would be delighted if a reader 1880 and 1920, but so far there has been no descrip- tion of what they did, other than being classified as a could enlighten me further on that. comic musical act. That deficiency has now been Alcide Capitaine often appeared on the same bill as a partly remedied thanks to a book called—The Melodies contrast to the father and son double act of Binns and Linger On The story of Music Hall“ by W McQueen- Binns. She was an acknowledged beauty and perfo- Pope. He explains that double acts were always popu- med her acrobatic routines with great elegance. Per- lar, some were —sisters“, some two men, and some haps it is fitting and not unexpected that several im- mixed and he goes on to say —some were comedy, ages of Alcide survive but, as far as I am aware, none some sang, some danced, some did all sorts of re- markable things.“ —There was George Abel and Ethel of Binns and Binns. Alcide Capitaine was the stage Arden; Newham and Latimer; Foreman and Fannan, name of Alcide Lucia C Magnago who married Joseph jugglers; and Binns and Binns, dressed as tramps, Henry Binns, the son, in 1897, and they had a daugh- with trousers on the wrong way round, and a habit of ter Dorotea, born in London in 1898. Dorotea married striking matches on each other‘s heads until one of in London in 1920. them used a French nail instead. Then they would produce dull, dirty, battered-looking old post-horns and play the —Post-Horn Gallop“ as it should be

M ore Alchem y?

In News Letter No.15 there was a mention of G.H. struction of W orks, and Supplies Furnished“. Binns, assayer of Grants Pass, Oregon and Joseph Binns, successor to George Binns, manufacturing In 1880 the US Census records Thomas, who was chemist of New York. It would seem that members of born in England in about 1845, as married and living the Binns family found a rich seam in this line of busi- in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Emma, daugh- ness. ters Sarah and Edith, and son W arren. An unmar- ried cousin, Charles Jelliffe, a lawyer, was living with In addition to the above I have now learned of a Tho- them. mas Binns who set up his own business as an as- sayer at 279 Front Street, New York, in September It is interesting to speculate whether this Thomas 1883. He had previously been in partnership with Kid- Binns was a relation of Samuel Thomas Binns who ney and Holliday at Boston Metallurgical W orks, in in 1810 gave evidence to the House of Commons Massachusetts. According to Thomas, he had —great regarding the high price of gold bullion. Samuel expertise in examination and assay of the ores of the managed the affairs of W illiam and Jacob W ood mines in the Eastern and Southern States and British who were the successors of Messrs Binns and Provinces“. W ood, of Threadneedle Street, London, refiners and dealers in bullion. His business was described as —Gold and Silver Re- finer handling Mill Runs of 500 Lbs. Or Upwards, Con-

Page 10 Peter Carrington goes Binns Spotting

I took this photo in Bradford Road Saltaire. This shop has been a butchers under Binns ownership for at least 7 or 8 years.

The man in the Van was working at a property in Shipley - obviously discerning clients !!

The Hearing Healthcare shop is in Harrogate Road , Apperley Bridge, and the shop title says it all really !.

Peter is the grandson of John Binns who was born 20 Sept. 1898 at Daisy Mount, Oakworth and died 13th Septem- ber 1991 at Sutton, Yorks. The photographs were all taken in 2008

Page 11 W here W e Com e From Extracts from M iike Biinns‘ Research

Some writers have suggested that Binns originated 1379 John de Bynnes (Haworth) from Bynni, a pre-conquest personal name, but it is 1446 John de Bynnes (Keighley) now thought that it has a geographical origin in the Haworth area. George Redmonds in Yorkshire Sur- 1478 Laurence Binns (Haworth) name Series - Part 1 Bradford & District puts it in 1545 Richard Byns (Haworth) Oxenhope near Keighley Binns was said to derive from the Old English personal name Bynni, and It is probable that all the Binnses have a common origin elsewhere it has been explained either as "a maker in one family living in the Oxenhope / Haworth area at of binns" or "a dweller in the hollows". Even if such some time during the fourteenth century. explanations are valid for the surname in other parts Before the fourteenth century most people in rural areas of the country they completely ignore the present in the north of England would only have been known by distribution in the W est Riding and its history in the their personal name or as ”son of ...‘ or by their occupa- Bradford area. That distribution is the result of the tion. last 450 years for in 1545 most of the Yorkshire Over the centuries people have moved around the coun- families with the name lived in Haworth or Allerton try, but, until relatively recently, people tended not to and it is there that the records confirm a place-name move great distances (except for migration to London). In origin, probably the hamlet now known as High fact even today, for many surnames, it is possible to look Binns, in Oxenhope. There are several minor places at the distribution of the name on a map and get a fair with the same name and they were derived by Smith idea of where the name originated. This was even more from an Old English word meaning a manger or true in the nineteenth century and this map, which shows stall.He gives various early examples of the name, the distribution of people with the Binns surname re- all in that area: corded in the 1881 census, points very clearly to a W est 1346 Jordan del Bynnes (Oxenhope) Riding origin.

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Page 12 The Happy List Steve Binns M BE

The Independent on Sunday has produced what it calls the IoS Happy List by way of a contrast to the lists produced by other newspapers, and in particular the Sunday Times Rich List. The only Binns, so far, to make it onto either list is; —Steve Binns; Liverpool historian Area of excellence: Community service. W ith more than 2,000 biographies of local people in his repertoire, Mr Binns' vivid city tours have earned him the title of "greatest living Merseysider". Not bad for a man who has been blind since birth. Mr Binns, however, refuses a guide dog œ "I wouldn't want him getting all the credit"“.

Recent Contacts

From San Diego, USA; Sean Hodges, John and Abigail descendant Maryland, USA; Odette Brown; Robert Binns who married Judith Holness with a Jamaican connection. USA; Jean Ann Lupinetti; descendant of Sarah Binns and John Breweton, married 1760 in Dewsbury

New Zealand ; David Livesey; Binns, W hitehead, Livesey, and Pilling in the Huddersfield area

UK David Procter from Oakworth with connections in Haworth and Foulridge UK; Audrey Bailey, nee Binns, Joseph Binns who married Martha Gatley in 1843 UK; Phil Bartlow; Binns families in Iowa UK; Hayden Binns; grandson of Geoffrey Laird Binns UK; Fred Binns; ancestors of Frederick W illiam Binns, born 22 Feb 1906 in Middlesbrough UK; Frank Binns; related to Samuel Binns killed in shelling of Hartlepool in 1914 UK; Peter Binns; John and Abigail descendants UK; Christine Clifford; descendant of Benjamin B Binns of W akefield UK; Martin Bailey; son of Anne W addington Binns

South Africa, Spain, Hull, Dorset; Ashley Binns-W ard, Sue Kirton; Sue Binns, and Susan Brown; Horse dealers from Leeds Page 13

And finally...

A publication like this would not be possible without significant help from others and I would like to thank, in no particular order, Peter Binns, Margaret Page, Mike Binns, Susan Brown, Peter Carrington, and Alan P Binns, all of whom have made valuable contributions. Many thanks also go to my son Ian and Peach Digital for their continued support of the website. Finally I thank my wife Elaine for retyping some items and putting much effort into producing a visually attractive publication.

For this newsletter to continue we need contributions from fellow Binns family researchers.

If you have photographs, an interesting or intriguing story, poetry etc: with a Binns connection, please share them with us. If you found them interesting or amusing so will we .

You can contact us on either the website or by post at either of the following addresses:-

David T. Binns, Alan P. Binns, 103 Haswell Gardens, 518 Colne Road, North Shields, Reedley, Tyne and W ear, Burnley, NE30 2DR. Lancs.

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