Another Braunston Strike Card

Reader's Letters & Queries: NarrowBoat, Spring 2013

When the canal genealogist Lorna York was asked to explore the history of the Green family, she first contacted Lizzie Green in Blisworth and Ron Green in Hillmorton. It was through them that she learnt that they were connected to the subject of one of the Braunston strike photographs recently explored in NarrowBoat (Spring and Winter 2012). The image in question was one taken by Victor Long and published in the Rugby Advertiser, showing the funeral procession of Joe Green, on 27th September 1923. Joe Green was Lizzie’s grandfather, and great-grandfather to her nephew Ron Green. Lizzie produced a rather battered photograph with the inscription H167 from a store of family memorabilia. The scene portrays the head of the funeral procession with the pallbearers carrying a plain wooden bier with Joe’s coffin covered with flowers. The war memorial is visible behind the coffin. The procession has just passed the narrow gateway and flight of steps leading up to the church and is …