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.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Lost London

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London is probably one of the most written about cities in the world, but for many parts of old London there is no record of how some stree...

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Not a stunt rider

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No this is not a stunt rider. This manoeuvre was part of the normal motorcycle training for National Service Military Policemen in t...

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Stop the world I want to get off.

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Lots of older people are just grumpy old men or grumpy old women. Some though are just bemused by the changes which have taken place in ju...

Friday, January 1, 2016

What National Service taught us.

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There used to be a phrase about National Service and what it taught young men. "I learned to drive and I learned to scive>" ...

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Curry without chips

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It may be difficult to believe in these days of multicultural cooking, but I had never tasted curry until I was nineteen years old. Despit...

Sunday, September 6, 2015

A visit to Malta

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In January 1945 HMS Whimbrel visited Malta as part of a Royal Navy flotilla which was in training to go to the Pacific, The war in Europe ...

Monday, August 31, 2015

A Tale of Two Migrants

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My Great great grandfathert Balthasar Dietz was an economic migrant by today’s standards, In about 1842 he left his native village ...

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