{"id":34,"date":"2012-05-26T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=34"},"modified":"2012-05-27T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:48:42","slug":"mary-jane-underwood-1879-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/mary-jane-underwood-1879-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Jane Underwood 1879 &#8211; 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/immemesmun.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/images\/smunder2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>Samuel and Mary ran a boarding house at, 62 Reads Avenue, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Blackpool\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackpool\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Blackpool, Lancashire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blackpool rose to prominence as a major center of tourism in the Victorian era when a railway link was constructed in the 1840s, connecting it to the industrialised regions of the north. By 1881 Blackpool had become a booming resort with a population of around 14,000.\u00c2\u00a0 Blackpool boasted a promenade, complete with piers, fortune-tellers, public houses, trams, donkey rides and theatres. By 1901 the population of Blackpool was 47,000, by which time its place was recognised as &#8220;the archetypal British seaside resort&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft zemanta-img\" style=\"width: 190px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Edward_Elgar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured \" title=\"English: English composer Edward Elgar, likely...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/ce\/Edward_Elgar.jpg\/300px-Edward_Elgar.jpg\" alt=\"English: English composer Edward Elgar, likely...\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moving down to the Midlands in 1927, they ran &#8216;The Pleck Stores&#8217; in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sidemoor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidemoor\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Sidemoor<\/a> (Bromsgrove). Their most famous client was Sir Edward Elgar who collected groceries from them. He would drive down Crabtree Lane in a pony and trap, from Grafton House where he used to stay. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/immemesmun.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel and Mary ran a boarding house at, 62 Reads Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire. Blackpool rose to prominence as a major center of tourism in the Victorian era when a railway link was constructed in the 1840s, connecting it to the industrialised regions of the north. 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