Wantage, Berkshire
Alfred Street, Wantage
The family home of James and Harriet McMULLIN faces the Boys school attended by Frederick Thomas. The ajoining building was The Castle Hotel.
The road running across is Mill Road where the family lived previously and where Frederick Thomas was born.
These two photographs were taken outside the house.
Catherine Lillian, Harriet and James
James McMULLIN
Photographs 1,4,5 were taken by Eric McMullin.
See also James McMULLIN and Soldier sons of James McMULLIN
The Tram Station in Mill Street near the junction with Alfred Street and the McMULLIN's home. The steam tram ran from here several miles to Wantage Road railway station on the Main line. The last surviving Tram is now at Didcot Steam Centre.
A race was held between the tram and a donkey cart driven by a one legged man. The race is comemorated in this verse:
"A curious race has come to pass,
Between an engine and an ass,
The Wantage tram, all
steam and smoke,
Was beat by Arthur Hiscock's moke”
Alfred Street taken from Mill Road. The Mc MULLIN’s house can just be seen next to the Castle Hotel (now a Chinese restaurant) the large window belongs to the Masonic Hall formally the boys school. The girls school was near the Doctor's surgery which is now the town's museum.
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