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Bedford Hotel, 13 St Johns Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, Hampshire

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Bedford Hotel, 13 St Johns Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight - in the 1940s

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1875/William Newman/../../../Post Office Directory

1885/John Browning/../../../Kellys Directory

1889/John Browning/../../../Kellys Directory

My grandfather Harry Masters was the licensee of The Bedford Hotel in the late 1940s, and the photographs are of he and my grandmother Eileen and my dad Ron. We all migrated to Australia in the early 1950s. *

Harry Thomas Masters along with his wife Eileen Amy Masters at the Bedford Hotel, St Johns Road, Ryde

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In 1939, Harry Thomas Masters is in the RM Police at Plymouth along with his wife Eileen (nee Howard) and two youngsters. His birth date is 23rd Jan 1894, and hers is 16th May 1896. He had enlisted in the Royal Marines light Infantry in 1908; and they married in 1917 at Alverstoke, in Hampshire.

Harry Thomas Masters along with Eileen Amy Masters, and Ron Masters inside the Bedford Hotel, St Johns Road, Ryde

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1950/H T Masters, Bedford Hotel, St Johns road, Ryde 2978 - BT Telephone Directory

In 1951, on the Strathmore P and O Stemaship travelling from London to Sidney, Australia were :
Henry Thomas Masters, aged 57 and Eileen Amy Masters, aged 54, both of the Bedford Hotel, St Johns road, Ryde, Isle of Wight


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