tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256576573761778510.post8546979376308425760..comments2023-08-15T03:15:12.607-05:00Comments on Povey Prattle: Down memory lane again (and my confusion)J. Michael Poveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835759800684119909noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256576573761778510.post-91239425614239364612015-10-12T09:00:40.169-05:002015-10-12T09:00:40.169-05:00Mr Povey,
I am on my way to visit my father in Fr...Mr Povey, <br />I am on my way to visit my father in France over the next couple of days and will make sure he sees your response - which, though 3 or 4 years old I am sure he has never seen - and which I only just came across! <br />I came across your blog & mention of Ralph Norton merely by chance. My father & I have both done considerable family history research and, as someone who left England to move to America in the ease of the late 20th century, have always been interested in the lives of those who left to live abroad when things were more challenging. Ralph Norton & his going to India has always fascinated me - hence the Google search which lead me to you!<br />Sadly I know nothing much of Bristol and the places you mention. My parents were members at Ebenezer on Filton Avenue but left Bristol for Stockport before I was born.<br />I trust you are well - thank you so much for sharing your memories of Ralph & his family.<br />Louise NortonLouise Norton - Charlotte and the Lakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09626090590852165282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256576573761778510.post-90767029318880875212011-10-06T12:49:51.116-05:002011-10-06T12:49:51.116-05:00Well I never!
This is a small internet world. I...Well I never!<br /><br />This is a small internet world. I'll be interested to find out how your daughter came across my blog.<br /><br />Oddly enough, I was thinking about Ivy today. I had been meditating on "give us this day our daily bread" and I remembered that when we were very young bread, milks, eggs etc were indeed daily supplies - and that fresh fruits were unavailable in winter - and that Ivy had stored some autumnal "Coxes Orange Pippins" in the cold upstairs bedroom so that she and her parents could enjoy an apple "off season". Now we import fruits and vegetables from all over the world so that we can buy them "on demand"<br /><br />Of course I have very fond memories of the Nortons. As I wrote in my blog I "wanted to be like Mr. Norton when I grew up".<br /><br />Given the etiquette of those days, I never knew that Mrs. Norton's name was Ginny.<br /><br />Ivy Norton had a sister. Was her name Peggy?<br /><br />Gosh, it makes me feel so very old to remember that the Nortons gave us a "Magic Lantern" Show - more primitive even thanslides. Ivy taught us a version of "When he cometh" in the language they used in India. I recall that phonetically it started with words like "doori cuma, doori cuma".<br /><br />If you read more of my blog you will read how my family became involved at Chelsea Gospel Hall - see "memories". And of course I knew the Linton brothers (I think that they are still active at Speedwell Gospel Hall - the assembly which moved into Speedwell from Charlton Gospel Hall in Lawrence Hill).<br /><br />Eddie Iles died a few years ago. He was the man who persuaded me to move to Abingdon Road Gospel Hall (off Lodge Causeway) when things got difficult at Chelsea. I would walk from Devon Rd to Abingdon Gospel Hall, and after the morning meeting I would walk home with Eddie and his first wife - they lived on Elstree Road - off Gordon Avenue in Whitehall.<br /><br />When Eddie's first wife died her married a younger woman named Ruth Batt. (She had been a member at Chelsea and was a District Nurse who was often assigned to my home after my 5 younger siblings were born).<br /><br />Now Ruth Iles has re-married a man named Graham Spencer who had been active at Totterdown Gospel Hall. I saw them in 2009 when I was back in Bristol for my 65th birthday celebration.<br /><br />Back to Ivy Norton. I seem to remember that she married in mid-life, and that her husband was from the Gospel Hall on St. Nicholas Street in the St. Paul's area of Bristol.<br /><br />I wonder which assembly was yours?<br /><br />There are so few left in Bristol: Totterdown, Abingdon, Bishopston, Knowle West and many others have folded.<br /><br />I have not been associated with the Brethren in more than 50 years. They taught me to love the scriptures and the breaking of bread. But their sectarian instincts were too narrow for me, and I came to understand that "dispensationalism" was at the least heterodox, and at the worst heretical.<br /><br />Now you are in France. La Belle France! In what town and department do you live?<br /><br />Are there still Darbyistes ( the common name for Peebs) in France? <br /><br /> (JND did a lot of missionary work in France).<br /><br /> Did you know the Pavey (not Povey) brother from Etloe Road Gospel Hall who worked for L'Eau Vive in Lille?<br /><br /><br />Thank you so much for being in touch. I was glad to hear from someone who is related to Ralph Norton, and who remembers the 83 bus, Packer's Field, Devon Road, Chelsea Gospel Hall, and the LMS railway.<br /><br /> Blessings! <br /><br />J. Michael PoveyJ. Michael Poveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17835759800684119909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256576573761778510.post-72548871286567620242011-10-05T13:39:20.944-05:002011-10-05T13:39:20.944-05:00My daughter in North Carolina has sent me your blo...My daughter in North Carolina has sent me your blog of 9 February.Ralph Norton was my grandfather's brother and I knew him,Ginny,his wife and Ivy in the 50s and 60s.I passed along Devon Road many times often on the 83 bus after a school games afternoon at Packers sports field in Whitehall. I visited Chelsea Gospel Hall several times to speak at childrens meetings.If you ever went there you probably knew Eddie Iles and Keith and Alan Linton.As for the LMS I left considerable amounts of toecap leather on the walls of the long bridge in Barrow Road overlooking the railway sheds.<br /><br />I have lived 45 and more years away from Bristol--the last 20 in France so thanks for the reminder of a happy adolescence.<br /><br />Kind Regards<br /><br />John Norton.John Nortonnoreply@blogger.com