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Bertha's trip to Mexico.

  • IE OCL P131/2/2/3/3/4
  • Bestanddeel
  • 4 February 1895-22 March 1895
  • Part of Loughton Papers

File of letters from Bertha Turnor to Dora Trench. The letters are written from Mexico and the United States.
In the letters Bertha discusses her travels around Mexico to places such as Puebla and Merida. She states her delight at visiting a place free from tourists yet also expresses her disappointment with the poverty and sub-par facilities she encountered.

Turnor, Bertha

Photograph album of Theodora Trench's travels.

Photograph album compiled by Theodora Trench between 1919 and 1921. The photographs within the album were taken by Theodora as she traveled around the world.

Among the places she visited she included Canada, New Zealand, Tahiti, Samoa and Australia.
Theodora Trench spent a vast amount of time in New Zealand and as a result of this a significant proportion of the album is made up of photographs taken during her time there. Theodora visited places such as Lake Kaniere, Mount Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. She also visited the homes of Māori people such as Ohinemutu a living Māori village on the shores of Lake Rotorua. Photographs of these meeting are included in the album. On 29 April 1920 Theodora attended a Māori reception given to HRH Prince of Wales. The photographs of this reception show Prince Edward reading an address to the Māori people, a Māori haka, The Prince of Wales inspecting a gun, a Māori woman, a Māori husband and wife and a Māori chief.

During her time in Canada Theodora visited the Canadian Rockies and included photographs of the surrounding scenery in the album.

Theodora also a number of islands and took photographs of her encounters with the local people and of the scenery. During her travels she vised Tahiti, Raratonga, Samoa, Fiji Islands and Vavaʻu and Haʻapai in Tonga.

Theodora also visited Bolingbroke in Australia. The photographs taken in Australia were mainly of friends and family. They included a photograph of Effie Turnor and Theodora bringing in cows, the Rush family and Graham Turnor.

Rocky Mountains

File of photographs taken of the Rocky Mountains during November 1919.

Ireland

Summers traveling, Lough Derg, Mrs Austin Boyle, Ennistymon Clare, Cliffs of Moher, Quilty Clare, Glendalough
Sheelah at the bay, Rock of Cashel','picnic on Lough Derg'

Bertha's trip to North America and Cuba.

During 1894 and 1895 Bertha visited North America and Cuba, this file contains the letters she sent to her sister Dora Trench during this time.

In a letter dated 4 November 1894 she writes about Niagra falls,' Friday was a glorious day day, warm & bright. I spent all of it sitting in the sun, looking at the Falls from various points of view. I was not disappointed in them. They are grand in spite of everything having been done to spoil the place. There are great factories close by, worked by the water, the banks are linded with lifts & railways of all sorts to pull you up & down. You are pursued by guides & drivers & men selling shell boxes, photos & mugs with "Niagara" on there, as mementos & a huge advertisement of "Carters little Liver pills" is just above one fall!..'

She also writes of her disappointment with Cuba, ' ... I am much disappointed in Havana. There is nothing to remind one, one is in the tropics except the heat. It is just like Marseilles are one of the Sout European towns the same narrow ill paved streets, & the same street houses with the plaster peeling of & muels with bells and tassels, only there are no beautiful mountains & no interesting buildings & hardly any trees, which most tropical towns have...'

Turnor, Bertha

Letters from Bertha from Stockholm 1897.

  • IE OCL P131/2/2/3/3/5
  • Bestanddeel
  • 10 January 1897-1897
  • Part of Loughton Papers

Letters sent to Dora Trench by Bertha Turnor during Bertha's time in Stockholm Sweden.

In one letter of note Bertha writes about a visit to the Swedish palace, '....A servant footman there showed us into a room where a lot of ladies, all in black with white sleeves were standing about & talking. Tea was being handed around but as Mrs P did not take any, I thought I had better not. I did not see anyone I know except for [Countess] Wachtmeister the Mistress of the Robes, who we had called on at the Palace. She shook hands, & then asked us to follow her into a little room next door. That is where the diplomats are received. There were only 9 of us there. The German minister's wife with a daughter & friend- Mrs P. niece & Sue the American [?] wife Mrs O'Neill with 2 daughters. We stood in a row on one side . After a few minutes waiting the doors were thrown open & the Queen came in followed by a [?] & 2 or 3 gentlemen. She was dressed in a high purple velvet gown with a headdress of feathers & lace & diamonds about. We all curtsied. She first talked for sometime in German to the 3 Germans. Then in excellent English to Mrs P. She asked if she had got into her flat yet & about the weather, skating, [?], including miss P & I. I made a remark about the skating but Mrs P did most of it..'

Turnor, Bertha

Tahiti, Samoa and Tonga.

File of photographs and negatives taken in Tahiti, Samoa and Tonga. Photographs contained within the file include a photograph take outside the Palace Gates in Tonga, a photograph of native children in Vavaʻu in Tonga and a native house near Apia the capital of Samoa.

The United Kingdom and the Channel Islands.

  • IE OCL P131/6/2/7/5
  • Bestanddeel
  • 1920-September 1949
  • Part of Loughton Papers

File of photographs and negatives of Wales, Jersey and the Isle of Wight.Locations photographed include Devil's Bridge in Ceredigion, Capel Curig and Nanhoron in Wales, Mont Orgueil in Jersey and Totland bay in the Isle of Wight. Negatives of Castle Combe a village in Wiltshire, England. Among the negatives there are shots of Bybrook River and the village.

Travel

File of items Theodora Trench saved as souvenirs from her attendance at Maori reception to H.R.H the prince of Wales. The reception was held on 28 April 1920 in the Rotorua Jockey club, Rotorua, New Zealand. The file includes a programme and a ticket from the event; a passenger list from S.S Stella D'italia; itinerary from S.S Stella D'italia; dinner menu and concert programme from S.S Stella D'italia; unused luggage tags; R.M.S 'Tofua' Christmas dinner menu; letters to Benjamin Bloomfield Tranch regarding Thora's lost luggage and insuranc; R.M.S 'Tofua' map of saloon and second class passenger accommodation; Thora's passport; leaflets, maps,
and guide books relating to Australia, Samoa, Canada, New Zealand.

Also contains bundle of leaflets, maps, letters and programmes resulting from Theodora Trench's trip to Scotland; passenger list from S.S Bayono; a leaflet for Edinburgh International Music festival Motor Coach Tours 1847.

Also contains bundle of pamphlets and leaflets from the Gallipoli and Salonika pilgrimage from the 1928 cruise; a leaflet from the St Barnabas pilgrimage to Gallipoli and Salonica 1926; and the Order of Service at Capes Helles memorial to the missing [soldiers].

Travel photographs.

Photographs taken by Theodora Trench and Sheelah Lefroy during their separate travels around the world.

Trench, Theodora Caroline

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