ATKOMATIC SOLENOID VALVES

Seated in the centre are Herbert Watts and his wife Jane (née Lincoln).

The couple had 8 children in Clapham, but only 4 survived. Whilst there was definitely an earlier Newman Watts (1893), the other three children are not confirmed, but could have been:

Alice Florence Watts bpt 1904
Lucy Jane Watts bpt 1904 (same day)
Ida Lucy Watts bur 1909 (1yr)


I'm assuming therefore that the four are pictured here now:

At the back would be Martena Watts (L), Rosa Vera Watts (R) but then the two men on the far left and far right are not so easy to identify. One would be Newman Watts, born around 1895. The other is Lincoln Watts born in 1892. I've been trying to work out which male looks like a minister. At one point, in 1911, Lincoln was a Post Office Clerk, whilst Newman was a Telegraph Messenger. Herbert was a Grocer, and Jane, having left home to go into service as a housemaid, reached Cook and finally Midwife.

Lincoln went on to become a missionary, spending a large amount of his life in India and Sri Lanka preaching. He had previously attended the Eden Chapel in Cambridge (most recently The Footlights restaurant). Lincoln wrote a few books during his time and appears to have been highly regarded in the UK. In India however, not all was good.

Lincoln married Ethel Alice Hines and they had a daughter.

Rosa appears to have married James William Rippon.

Martena appears to have married David Arthur Thrower, another missionary and author. Together (Martena noted as a Missionary in 1939), they went out to Bombay (modern Mumbai) and Madras as missionaries. They returned to England with growing family in tow in November 1932 and again in April 1939.

Mike Watt and George Hurley, 2/3 of the Minutemen and, in this shot, fIREHOSE. There's no sufficient way to state what their music has meant to me. They'll always be one of my deepest inspirations.

We miss you, D. Boon. Much respect. This country needs you right now.

Live at the Lost Iguana Grill, Laramie, WY in May 1993.