Arthur Ernest Nidd

  General Notes:

Choristers were singing at St Paul's Cathedral
Choristers were singing at St Paul's Cathedral
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THESE St Wulfram's choirboys were in London when this picture was taken in about 1971.

They were there to sing in St Paul's Cathedral but we don't know why.

The only person recognised so far is Arthur Nidd (extreme right wearing tie).

If you know the others contact John Pinchbeck by e-mail at granthampast@googlemail.com

The picture was sent in by Molly Clough, of Belton Lane, Grantham.
Photo: 6151


Name: NIDD, Arthur Ernest
Registration District: Help Grantham
County: Lincolnshire
Year of Registration: 1975
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Date of Birth: 21 October 1903
Volume No: 7
Page No: 1622

note he and and Mary Forster gave a set of fish knives to Mary's sister at their wedding in 1927

  Research Notes:

on 1939 registration

  Events

• Lived at: 13 Welham Street, 1911, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

• Lived at: 13 Welham Street, 1921, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

• Employment: Messrs. Rusten and Hornby, 1927, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

• Residence: Hill Avenue, 1927, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

• Lived at: 33 Greenhill Road`, 1931, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

• Newspaper Article: resignation as verger, 1938, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

• Lived at: The Lawn Union Road , Lincoln C.B., Lincolnshire (Parts of Lindsey), England, 1939, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawn,_Lincoln

History as mental hospital[edit]

Statue of Dr Edward Parker Charlesworth, physician and life governor of the Lawn Hospital from 1820 until his death in 1853
The Lawn began its life as a lunatic asylum. After initial fundraising, the site was bought in 1809; and Richard Ingleman, architect of Nottingham Asylum, was brought in. After delay caused by indecision on the management of the asylum, independent of the county magistrates, the subscribers went ahead in 1817, and the building opened as a hospital in April 1820.[2] The Lincolnshire County Asylum was later built (around 1854) at Bracebridge Heath.[3]

The Lawn continued to provide psychiatric inpatient facilities until closed by the NHS in 1985.

Arthur married Mary Forster on 14 Jun 1930 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. (Mary Forster was born on 17 Aug 1903 and died after 1939.)