Towns and Cities

 

This gallery shows pictures of some of the cities, towns and villages

where our ancestors nested

 

 

 

Aberdeen

Scotland

1822

 

 

 

 

 

Bradford

Yorkshire

1830

 

 

 

 

Kingston-upon-Hull

Yorkshire

1822

 

 

Sheffield

Yorkshire

Willgoose Musical Supplies

 

 

Annesley

Nottinghamshire

Annesley Hall

 

 

Coventry

Warwickshire

Wildgoose Sports Shop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lowestoft

Suffolk

Marine Parade

 

 

 

 

Manchester

Lancashire

1830

 

 

 

 

Trowbridge

Wiltshire

Market Square

 

 

 

Matlock

Derbyshire
Hopewell House

 

 

Castleton

Derbyshire
Goose Hill

 

 

Whitley Bay

Northumberland
Hartley House School

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bristol

Gloucestershire

The Great Western Railway

 

 

 

Matlock

Derbyshire

Robert Wildgoose’s Tram Shelter

 

 

 

 

Sheffield

Yorkshire

Cutlers’ Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheffield

Yorkshire

1830

 

 

 

Darley

Derbyshire

Losker Row

 

 

 

Nottingham,

Nottinghamshire

The Castle

 

 

 

Sheffield

Yorkshire

London Road c.1900

 

 

Lexington

Kentucky

Parker Place

 

 

Ithaca

New York

Wilgus Opera HOuse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darley

Derbyshire

The Grouse Inn

 

 

 

Holymoorside

Derbyshire

The Star Inn

 

 

  

 

Leadenham,

Lincolnshire

 The George Hotel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hyde

Cheshire

John Street

 

 

 

Rotherham

Yorkshire

1862

 

 

 

 

Cromford

Derbyshire

Cromford Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wigan

Lancashire 

Plantation Gates

 

 

 

 

Wigan

Lancashire

Wildgoose Lane

The Ropewalk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wirksworth

Derbyshire

Via Gellia

 

I am indebted to Dave Marsh for the photograph of Wildgoose Lane

in Wallgate, Wigan where John Wildgoose and Ann Bailey’s family lived and worked in the 1790s

(although in those days I don’t think there would have been an electric lamp standard!)

 

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