Mumbles from Planet Dan

This page was first written in late 2000 – I’ve transferred it here for anyone ending up here hoping to find something about “Wardle” 4/8/09

Albert Wardle was my great grandfather, born 15-Jul-1866 in Kegworth (son of James Wardle 1839-1914) and married Sarah Jane Brentnall.  They had eight children:

• Harold James born 9-Jan-1894
• Eric Charles born 12-Oct-1896
• Doris Mabel born 7-Mar-1898
• Marjorie born 15-Apr-1900
• Grace born Feb-1902 died 18-Apr-1905
• Bernard Leslie born 29-Nov-1904
• Frederick Cyril born 8-Oct-1907
• Leonard Douglas born 2-Apr-1911

Albert went to London to manage a tea store in the 1880s. The marriage certificate shows Albert Wardle’s address as Farrant Avenue in Wood Green (N22 in North London today), but he moved to Kettering to manage Liptons before his first child, Harold, was born, and then bought a shop on the Market Place in the town.

In 1900, Albert went into business with Mr Jacquest to form Jacquest & Wardle – a haulage firm.

The horse and dray are standing outside Hawthorn Road School, Kettering (the school is still there today). Later, Albert Wardle used steam tractors – he is second on the right, working to move a redundant Midland Railway carriage to a site where the new owner used it as living accomodation.

Below: Albert, third from right, supervising his road steam tractor in Midland Road, Wellingborough. The picture was taken about 1912 where he was transporting a railway steam locomotive en route to Earls Barton ironstone quarry.