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Pontefract Years in Focus 1950 |
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YEARS IN
FOCUS
LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS OF THE 1950s
PONTEFRACT IN 1950
10th
February 1950
CURATES PONTEFRACT BRIDE
A
sequel to a wartime romance which began in Italy in 1944 was the wedding
at the Pontefract Parish Church, yesterday week, of Miss Emily Hartley,
only child of Mr. and Mrs R. Hartley, of Watergate, Pontefract, and the
Reverend Paul Lowndes Strictland, the elder son of Mrs and the late Mr.
C.C. Strickland, of Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
New
Curate of Oatlands, Weybridge, the bridegroom was a lieutenant in an
infantry regiment and the bride was with the A.T.S., attached to the
Royal Signals when they first met at the English Church in Rome. He was
wounded in the Italian Campaign and spent sometime in hospital at Bari;
and it was during his Army service that he had the misfortune to lose
his father, a censorship official who was taken ill and died at Malta.
Mr. Strickland had decided to enter the Church before he left the Army,
and he was ordained last September. The bride is well known for her work
at the Pontefract Parish Church and with the local Girl Guides. She has
been employed as a cashier at the Pontefract Branch of Jackson's Stores.
After
the honeymoon at Edinburgh, the Rev and Mrs Strickland will go to their
home at Oatlands. Mr. Strickland is already known to the Parish Church
members for help he has given at St Mary’s Mission.
[
1950 Index ]
Years
in Focus is researched by Maurice Haigh and reproduced with the kind
permission of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.
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