tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post3297200558665115651..comments2023-05-10T16:38:37.925+01:00Comments on Stockwood Pete: The Rendles of BedminsterPete Goodwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115478143080295370noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post-59127359662967123512014-12-11T00:08:29.349+00:002014-12-11T00:08:29.349+00:00Thanks, b-t-l.
We inherited a copy of Booth's ...Thanks, b-t-l.<br />We inherited a copy of Booth's book from a Salvationist grandfather. I confess I've never read it, but I love the melodramatic style of the picture folded into the front cover – that's where the detail comes from, and the Rendle story reminded me of it. I think IDS may have been influenced by it!<br />So far as I can tell, Joseph Rendle certainly wasn't a close relative- he was a Lancastrian, and he saw the opportunity to impersonate the hero. Maybe the heat was on in Burnley, because later he pulled the same trick in Glasgow – where he was found out, but not before being installed as president of the Govan British Legion branch. He was fined 5/- or 30 days.<br />The Kingswood papers are in the Record Office, but South Glos insist that their permission be sought before they can be inspected. South Glos didn't reply to my online request, so I've written to them in the old fashioned way. I shall greatly resent it, though, if they want me to justify my request to their satisfaction before getting permission!Stockwood Petehttp://stockwoodpete.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post-74218259876826151322014-12-09T09:50:01.526+00:002014-12-09T09:50:01.526+00:00Thanks for another interesting post Pete. History ...Thanks for another interesting post Pete. History is very telling, although often hard to piece together and requires that vital spark of imagination.<br /><br />I'd never heard of Booth's "Darkest England and the Way Out" before so went and had a read. Will we appear to future generations as bad as past generations appear to us?! Probably.<br /><br />Looking at the news article you link to it says that while, after fighting in the War, Thomas went off to colonise South Africa, someone else, called Joseph Rendle, took Thomas' identity and lived on assumed VC glory for a couple of decades til being unmasked! Who was Joseph, was he related?<br /><br />Surprised that the Kingswood School documents are not available in the Bristol Records Office. They are listed on the National Archives website as being there, so they ought to be there, oughtn't they?between-the-lineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523250378946750149noreply@blogger.com