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Wellfield Customers 1960/70

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Wellfield Hotel function 1960's
Photo: Keith

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A function held in the "singing room" of the Wellfield Hotel, Beech Hill probably sometime in the 1960's. Guests are getting ready for their sit down meal. I can only name three people, at the back of the room, hand on hip, is Cliff Makin who worked behind the bar and Bill? Benson who is one of the guests, he is turning around, smiling, wearing glasses and a white "muffler". Fred Hatton I believe can just be seen on extreme top left of photo, seated.

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Comment by: Mick on 26th February 2011 at 00:08

Keith - would that be Fred Hatton who used to live in Wilcock St, down Wallgate, and later at Lower Ground?
If so, I used to go fishing with him in later years.

Comment by: Keith on 26th February 2011 at 19:27

Mick - can't be sure about that, all I know is that I think he lived at Beech Hill around the late 50's and early 1960's with his wife and daughter. He and his wife worked for a few years at the Wellfield Hotel which is how I, as a teenager, knew him. He was a lovely, affable man with a very calm temperament, whether his job as a grave digger contributed to that or not I can't say. If he seems to be the same person you knew I do have another much better photo of him taken also at the Wellfield Hotel.

Comment by: ronnie on 3rd July 2014 at 18:22

fred and is wife are in st wilfreds at peace, thay lived in willow road beech hill had a girl christine

Comment by: Simon Wright on 20th February 2016 at 13:42

Hi ,lovely words and great pics.Fred & Conny Hatton were my grandparents , their daughter Christine is my mum.They loved their evenings at

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