One aim of this weblog is to share information. Bob Welch notes that last year the Society had a query from a Mr Ellis who contacted us after reading our first Journal. Bob's research resulted in this answer.
"As a collector of postcards of the Bunbury/ Tarporley area I am well aware of the man and I have quite a lot of his postcards in my collection.
Anyway Frederick Harold Haines ( usually referred to as Harold ) was the only son of Frederick Haines and his wife Jane.He was born in Yorkshire and his birth was registered in Selby in 1876.
His father was a Wesleyan Minister and so moved around the country in the course of his ministry. In the 1881 Census the family were living at Leftwich, Northwich. So far I can't find him in the 1891 Census but in 1901 he is recorded as living in Edgbaston,Birmingham as an Ironmongers Assistant.
However, within a few years he was living in Tarporley as a Photographer. Although mainly a portrait photographer, he also produced postcards for sale from about 1904 onwards. Most of his postcard photos were of the area within a few miles of Tarporley although he also produced a series of North Wales around Flint and Denbighshire".
In the 1911 Census he is living at 29, Eaton Road, Tarporley with his widowed mother and an unmarried sister.
He later produced series of postcards. One series was called the "Beeston " Series and another the "Clovelly" Series named after his art studio at the Eaton Road address.
As far As I can find out he never married and died in 1945.
Now to the picture "Glyndwr Hotel". After consulting a friend who is a dealer and something of an expert in N.Wales postcards we came to the conclusion that it was probably in the Mold, Flintshire area. Further enquiries showed that the Hotel is in fact the Owain Glyndwr Inn at Gwernymynydd, Mold, an establishment that is still in business today.
According to a pictorial history of the village http://www.gwernymynydd.co.uk/Gwernymynydd_Book.pdf the year was 1938 and they were expecting the visit of the Duke of Kent to come and open a wooden hostel for unemployed men from Liverpool. (The area, especially Loggerheads and Moel Fammau has been attracting visitors and walkers for years.) Apparently at the last minute the Duke had to go to a funeral and so in the end never visited the area."
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