Genealogy and other jottings

Genealogy or perhaps more Family History. Not just straight forward (or backward) family lines, but brothers and sisters, the neighbourhoods that they lived in and some information about what was happening at the time.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Ten signs you may think you are getting old

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One.  You are the only man in a restaurant without designer stubble and  wearing a tie Two:  you don't wear shorts in the street u...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

A Warm welcome in Murmansk

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Seventy years ago this month my dad arrived in the the Russian port city of Murmansk to a rapturous welcome.  The welcome wasn't just...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Create something today

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My Gran didn't  know about facebook or the internet and didn't even keep a diary or journal so we know very little about her early...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Great Wall of Pennington Street.

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Along the south side of Pennington Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets there is a 30 Foot high wall,  close to a quarter of a mil...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

A bicycle made for two or more

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Bicycle made for six or even more. Heard a story the other day. There was this cycling club on Merseyside which decided to do a fundrais...
Monday, January 20, 2014

How to stuff a rhinoceros

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How to stuff a Rhinoceros ?? Well I don't know, but Jean's great great great Grandfather did. A rhino had been imported in to...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Dad's first job

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A hundred years ago this Christmas my dad left school at the age of thirteen.  He never explained why he hadn't left at the age of twe...
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