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ELEVEN APPLEBY MEN WENT TO WAR
Posted 15th August 2017 by Maggie Clowes
The war was the Boer war fought between the British and the Dutch, both trying to gain control of South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. Short of regular troops, volunteers were called for and eleven men from appleby answered the call. In 1900 the Appleby Company of the 2nd Volunteer Brigade, Border Regiment marched away to serve in the second Boer War. Th…
Wartime Health
Posted 14th May 2017 by Maggie Clowes
Appleby was immensely proud of its Red House Hospital run by VADs for convalescent service men but who looked after the civilian population? A TOWN WITH NO HOSPITAL In 1914 Appleby had two doctors - Dr Andrew Sprott and Dr Harvey de Montmorency both of whom were based in Boroughgate. in addition there was the Sick Nursing Association which had been set up by Lady Hothfiel…
DYNAMIC DUO
Posted 6th April 2017 by Maggie Clowes
Alderman and Mrs Heelis were responsible for two FIRSTS in Appleby. The first married couple to be made Freemen of the town while she was the first woman to be so honoured. Why? Already well known and respected locally, the Heelis family came up trumps in the first World War. Alderman Edward Heelis was Mayor throughout the war years, ably supported by his wife. His son we…
WARTIME WORK OF APPLEBY’S MAYORESS RECOGNISED
Posted 8th February 2017 by Maggie Clowes
Mrs Ann Heelis was the first woman to be awarded the Freedom of Appleby in recognition of her work in the town in the first World War. Her husband was Mayor throughout the war and she gave him her whole-hearted support. It was well known that without her encouragement he could not have carried on. By the end of 1914 she had set up a working party to knit and sew comforts…
THE WOMEN LEFT BEHIND
Posted 8th February 2017 by Maggie Clowes
By the end of 1915 129 men had joined up - few families were unaffected - husbands, sons, boy-friends, grandsons gone. There is next to no information in the scrapbooks about how families coped. They must have been constantly anxious, missing someone who was usually around, watching for the post, scanning newspaper reports, probably short of money. There would have been fea…
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