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, September 29, 2019

Blue knickerbockers and the seven dwarfs

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Small boys often have a problem learning to control the bladder.  I was no exception and at school was frequently asking to leave the class...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

St. Johns Church,Wapping

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As a child, between the wars I lived round the corner from the Anglican church of St John of Wapping. Catholic children in those days were...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

We do not exist on Earth

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This is a picture of where we live as shown on Google earth!! + And this is how it is. Its not surprising then that if...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Musical memories

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The first time I heard the melody of O Sole Mio was a slightly bawdy song my grandmother used to sing which went something like: O...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Roaming the countryside

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Over a relatively long life there are a lot of things that have changed. Some for the better,some not. I don't have much contact with...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Three centuries of one Family in a Sussex Village

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When the second world war came, thousands of London school children were evacuated and we went with our school from Wapping to Brighton. ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Wapping and Dartmoor

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Of all the places in London's  East end which have been gentrified over the years,   Wapping is one that stands out. I'm wonderi...
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