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Episode 15: The Pearsons
Beeston's Pearson family are little-known outside of local history circles but as recently as the 1930s were highly influential in the area. Successful in business and very well-connected, it seems the Pearsons sought to improve the lives of everyone around them.
This episode includes mentions of Beeston, Bramcote, Chilwell, Attenborough, Boy's Brigade, The Beeston Foundry Company, Beeston Boiler Company, Foster & Pearson, Calke Abbey, the Sherwood Foresters , the Wipers Times, the High Sheriff of Nottingham, Kathleen Nicholls, Laura Kate Pearson, Nottingham Children's Hospital, Mary Melicent Hine, Bramcote House care home, St Michael and All Angels church, Mona Street, Broadgate Recreation Ground, Anglo-Scotian Mills, Foster Avenue and donkey polo.
Find links for the podcast here. Please get in touch if you have stories of bygone Nottingham in your family tree you'd like to hear on the show. We'd love to make an episode with you!
The theme music of the podcast is Everybody's Welcome by The Haunted Guy (https://www.thehauntedguy.com/). The episode also features an excerpt of High Tide (instrumental) by Kian Tony (https://www.newmusicrecords.co.uk/). Both pieces are used with the composer's kind permission.
The following resources were fantastically helpful in researching & writing the podcast:
https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/5183
https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/22543
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeston_Boiler_Company
http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/pearson.shtml
http://www.nottinghamhospitalshistory.co.uk/page24.html
https://fosterandpearson.co.uk
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By Scott TaylorBeeston's Pearson family are little-known outside of local history circles but as recently as the 1930s were highly influential in the area. Successful in business and very well-connected, it seems the Pearsons sought to improve the lives of everyone around them.
This episode includes mentions of Beeston, Bramcote, Chilwell, Attenborough, Boy's Brigade, The Beeston Foundry Company, Beeston Boiler Company, Foster & Pearson, Calke Abbey, the Sherwood Foresters , the Wipers Times, the High Sheriff of Nottingham, Kathleen Nicholls, Laura Kate Pearson, Nottingham Children's Hospital, Mary Melicent Hine, Bramcote House care home, St Michael and All Angels church, Mona Street, Broadgate Recreation Ground, Anglo-Scotian Mills, Foster Avenue and donkey polo.
Find links for the podcast here. Please get in touch if you have stories of bygone Nottingham in your family tree you'd like to hear on the show. We'd love to make an episode with you!
The theme music of the podcast is Everybody's Welcome by The Haunted Guy (https://www.thehauntedguy.com/). The episode also features an excerpt of High Tide (instrumental) by Kian Tony (https://www.newmusicrecords.co.uk/). Both pieces are used with the composer's kind permission.
The following resources were fantastically helpful in researching & writing the podcast:
https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/5183
https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/22543
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeston_Boiler_Company
http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/pearson.shtml
http://www.nottinghamhospitalshistory.co.uk/page24.html
https://fosterandpearson.co.uk
SOUND FX (all from Freesound.org)
Duck Quack - Sound Effect (HD).mp3 by Tabby+Gus.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
typewriter by bm3342. Appears under the Creative Commons Zero License.
explosion_012.mp3 by deleted_user_5405837.
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.
Firefight by TheBuilder15
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Many seagulls.wav by Ambientsoundapp
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Creative Commons Zero License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode