Bury's whereabouts in August 1888

[johns]

Excellent - has anyone tried to find any of the photo cards which were taken at the racecourse at the opening meeting, and mentione din the press piece above?

The racecourse archive, town archives, or the local press agency or newspaper might have some, though whether they would have a name on is another matter of course! One would have thought if they were so liberally handed round by the couple and by interested acquaintances, they would have been offered to the press when Bury so soon became notorious.

I'm too far from Wolverhampton to visit these archives myself, is anyone local?

I've been trying to find a picture of Bury for a while now, and while I believe that there are some out there to be found it will be either sheer luck or the labours of Hercules to uncover one.

I've gone through the Worcester and Stafford Archives, Stourbridge library as well as the William Salt library in Stafford and Wolverhampton archives too which is where the above snippets came from.

Tracing the family tree has proved tricky and I thought at one point I struck gold but that trail has come to a stop.

John

[Mrsperfect]

Hi Sara

Bury handed out business cards ..............................and photos of himself, not photo cards. There are a number of Bury's in the UK phone book. Perhaps one of them is related to William Henry?

Regards

Eileen

[Sara]

Excellent - has anyone tried to find any of the photo cards which were taken at the racecourse at the opening meeting, and mentione din the press piece above?

The racecourse archive, town archives, or the local press agency or newspaper might have some, though whether they would have a name on is another matter of course! One would have thought if they were so liberally handed round by the couple and by interested acquaintances, they would have been offered to the press when Bury so soon became notorious.

I'm too far from Wolverhampton to visit these archives myself, is anyone local?

[Sox]

Nice finds, so we can assume then that Bury was home in time for the death of Polly nichols then.

[johns]

This is a news report from the Express and Star (a Black Country paper) dated Wednesday 13th February 1889 and it confirms that Bury was in Wolverhampton for a week in August 1888 and frequented the race meetings at Dunstall Park which opened for it's first ever race on August 13th.

[johns]

Hi all.

Thought I would start with the most important Bury stuff I've got then work from there.

This is a report from the Staffordshire Advertiser dated Saturday 16th February 1889 indicating Bury stayed in Wolverhampton during August 1888 for a week at a public house in Powlett Street.