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.

Friday, July 29, 2022

Lavender Place,St. George in the East

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Lavender Place was situated just along Pennington Street from where my dad was born in August 1900. Lavender Place had 11 Houses where 134 ...

Friday, February 4, 2022

Covid 19, Old Age, or food processing?

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One of the symptoms of covid 19 is a loss of smell and taste. Well, we have experienced that for some time before the pandemic and we are ...

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Smuggling cigars

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Dad's stepfather George Pokham was a merchant seaman who worked mainly on the ships carrying various items between the London Docks ...

Friday, October 29, 2021

Before Duvets

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Winter has arrived without a doubt in the Northwest of England so we have changed over to the winter weight duvet. Perhaps there are still...

Friday, September 3, 2021

Catholic tories

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In the 1950s I was a young Labour councillor on Lewisham Council. Having been brought up as a Catholic one of the things I found difficult ...

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...

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