Wallace Brook Newman of Curling Cottages
A photograph of Wallace Brook Newman.
Wallace lived in Curling Cottages in The Avenue and had the contract for waste disposal in the village in WW1.
Here are some notes about him from the Parish Minutes put together by Christine Waterman in 2015 for a talk to the History Society:
‘The Parish Council were becoming desperate to find someone to carry out the ‘Scavenging’ duties in the village. This is what we would know call waste disposal which at this time was a parish responsibility. Every year they considered tenders for the work which involved not only collecting rubbish but night soil in pails from houses, of which there were many in the village, without a toilet of any sort or in one case, one toilet for 13 people. In June 1915, Mr Chapman, the current tenderer, had complained that he could not do the work for less than £80 a year due to the increased cost of labour and horse feed due to the war .
In June 1916 local farm worker Wallace Newman of 3 Curling Cottages, offered to do the work, doing two days a week in the village and two days in the Bay,; horses to be provided by Mr Laslett, a local farmer, and the cart by the parish, unless he is called up.
The Council took him on and agreed to support him at any Exemption tribunal. Seven months later he is called to a hearing and, supported by the Council, he is awarded an exemption for 6 months then he has to go to the hearing again. Again he is exempted but dies suddenly in April 1918. Alfred Gillings of Cliffe Lodge takes over the work.
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St Margaret's at Cliffe, The Avenue, Curling CottagesReference number
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