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.

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Two Wapping Gardens

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There are two gardens in Wapping in London's East End which were not there when I was a boy before WW2. The Rose Garden is alongside ...

More water in number three

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Back when the average home did not have a built in bathroom,which is a lot less than a century ago, for having a bath there was a few opti...

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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

The guardian and observer

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I stopped buying the Guardian and the Observer a while ago. I don't fit their reader demographic in anyway that makes any sense to me. ...

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...

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