YOU GOTTA HAVE FRIENDS

A WALK IN THE PARK LONDON 1912

 

You could not be in the Dog Game as long as Claire was without making lots of friends along the way on both sides of the Atlantic. Here are just a few I have been able to find photos of. Still looking for pics of Cora Charters, W. Edgar Baker, Edward Rogers Tolfree and any of the kennel help at Clairedale through the years. If you know where there might be some please email me.

 

 

JOE

Joseph Burrel was a Clairedale Kennel Manager at Yaphank and at Hampton Bays

 

 

FLORA

Mrs. L. W. Bonney of Tally -Ho Kennels

Flora Bonney and Claire were friends fron the early 20's

She was the widow of L. W. Bonney who built the Bonney Gull on the Knapp Estate

 

PERCY

 

 

Percy Roberts was a legendary handler. Here he is in 1930's and in 1951 in an ad for

Claire's daughter Margaret's Pennyworth Kennel which was located at Clairedale in Hampton Bays.

 

SHEILA

WRENS ON LONG ISLAND

NY Times June 13, 1943

Sheila Lyster was Clairedale's Kennel Manager in the 1950's. The daughter of Admiral Lyster of the Royal Navy Sheila was WREN stationed at Roosevelt Field during WWII. She may of been the last kennel manager there. She worked with dogs from both Clairedale & Pennyworth Kennels.

 

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THE 1940's & '50's