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, August 15, 2021

Press button "B"

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 Many phrases like this one, well known in the past no longer have any meaning.  It of course referred to the system of payment in public te...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Army sport

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Until I did my national service I had never seen a game of rugby. Bear in mind that this was in the days before TV. Whilst doing my military...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Come straight home

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I am sure that I was not a particularly stupid child but I did not seem to be able to understand the stricture "come straight home from...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Rambling

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  Rambling is one of those words which have a number of meanings.  When we were young it mostly meant a weekend activity with a group of fri...

What A Life!

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I started researching our family history perhaps 40 years ago and started writing them up some 20 years ago. My first books I printed myself...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

WW1 Prisoners of War made to work

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Saw a film on TV this week called Land of Mines.  Danish made and tells the story of a group of young German POWs after the end of WW2 bein...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Tell it to the Marines

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My Mums uncle, Edward Eder joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry at the age of 19 in 1881. Served for twelve years in Gibraltar, Malta  an...
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