Royal British Legion hotel in Weston-super-Mare set to become beachfront apartments
It is in a prominent position overlooking the seafront
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A seafront hotel that gave respite to war veterans could become beachfront apartments by next summer.
Somerset Legion House opened in Weston-super-Mare in 2007 at a cost of £6.7m, but was put up for sale for £1.2m last year.
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Obituary – Shirley Elinor Whitehead Noble
1923 – 2021
Shirley Noble
BIDDEFORD-SACO Shirley Elinor Whitehead Noble passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at 98 years of age.
She was born to parents, Raymond Whitehead and Elinor Washburn on January 13, 1923, in Dayton, Maine, as one of five children. Shirley graduated from Biddeford High School in 1940. Shortly thereafter, she married her high school sweetheart Robert L. Noble, Jr. before he served as a demolitionist in World War II. The couple had two sons and a daughter.
The Nobles lived in many locations, including Maine, California, Massachusetts, New York, and Florida. When their children were still young, they settled in the family cluster of homes in Biddeford Pool, Maine. Shirley and Robert remained in ‘the Pool’ until 1988, when they split their time between Frye Island, Maine, in the summer and Beverly Hills, Florida, in the winter months.
While many refer to gardening as a hobby today, gardening was a necessity for survival nearly 90 years ago during the Great Depression. And contrary to what you may think, not everyone knew how to garden back then.
By 1933, there were three large government-funded community gardens in Portsmouth as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and its nationwide subsistence gardens program, which were also known as the emergency gardens, relief gardens and welfare gardens.
Two subsistence garden plots were on city property at the New Franklin School and Atlantic Heights School. The city’s third and ultimately largest of the garden plots was on land in the West End owned by the Portsmouth Building Association. The land was part of its Westfield Park housing development off Islington Street in in the vicinity of Aldrich, Thaxter and Spinney roads. The Portsmouth Building Association was a group of businessmen and members of the Ports