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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: brigidmac on Thursday 28 June 18 23:56 BST (UK)
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Hello i found this lovely box
(If I can post successfully )
The antiques dealer said it must have a story to tell tho in itself wortheless
I told him about rootschat and bet him we could find its origins and maybe the family where it should be returned
So
Initialso of thin top of box
. written on top .
And on bottom.a name
Found during a Leicester shire house clearance .I have some theories but would like to.hear yours
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Attachment
Too big to link.
.I wonder if I can find a different way to do it ?
I very posted pics on my Facebook page .
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DP Camp is for dis placed people ...there was such a place near my town Oadby somewhere towards market harbourough I think
1 man thought to smell the bOx...
Confirmed my idea that it was a cigarette box .a lady googled the word on box lid
It is a town in Estonia
On the side are initials O L which is name of person
O.Lindre
Also on back is "SANDPLATS"??
the decorating seemed to be made be very small holes .
Frustrating that I can't post it
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Reduce the size or cut the photo into two or more pieces.
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"Sandplats" is unlikely to be Estonian (too complex a consonant cluster) - it certainly cannot be Finnish. It might be Swedish or German - both countries colonised the area in the past. (Not Russian as not Cyrillic). O Lindre could be Swedish but could equally be be Estonian.
It would be good to see that photo.
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Hi
Passenger list
"Columbia" sailing to Quebec on 7th Nov 1951
Nearly all the passengers on the page are from Eastern Europe.
Lindre O aged 53 Policeman
Lindre L aged 57 Housewife
Address given 13 Highfield Street, Leicester.
Both from Estonia
cathy
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Wow you are fantastic ...I. ll take my gadget to Oadby shops or event nearer Leicester
and see if a computer knowledgeable person can reformat photo
ESTONIA wasthe first Google result for the time
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A possible death in British Columbia Canada for "O"......
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/7a97651c-4d08-4294-a9a0-7ea12ee2dd00
Wife's name matches the L on the passenger list.
From this website......
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy
PB
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OK found someone who knows what compressed means but we were too busy doing Feelgood comedy this eve.
Meanwhile lady who gave me kindle will take her contact s so I can put mine on there and upload download compress transport or whatever. Computer lessond cost at least £15 an hour but it's amazing how many total strangers will help .
Sorry to keep you waiting ....we gave a shout out on Leicester community radio daytime this am.you can find a pic on our Facebook page ...Lctr...and request that they play the interview again ..I'm hoping time travel detective will be a regular slots. I do a drop in workshop on Sat mornings in Oadby library butility can present via phone
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If I send 1 of you attachment PM?compress
But have just discovered that 1 of these local camps "squatters rest I'm dictating it's called s #quatters the names of the places in Leicester but I know about so far are tilting t i l t o n on the Hill and near Stoughton airport where a r b o t o r i u m is now I believe there was one towards Market Harborough and the squatters place was still occupied in the late 1950s and it was prefab prefabricated buildings which my grandparents lived in prefabs in 1950s in the 1980s they'd become permanent buildings so I'm really interested in hearing more about this and a Jewish lady told me that the Jewish people were kept in separate camps would really shocks me ok shops yeah so if any of you want to make any more contributions also you can post it on Leicester community radio daytime Facebook on Saturdays post and if you want to phone in this Saturday you can leave a message thanks
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I went to Highfield Street but I took a photo of number 18 which was boarded up instead of number 13 my favourite Turkish restaurants is on that street so I don't mind going back anyway so so he went went to Canada and he died in Canada and we now have to find if he had children and if I can have an excuse to go to Canada and take his box to his descendants also I must go to the antique shop and tell the man that yes time traveller's have solved the story of the box within the week wow so hopefully this will encourage my boss on the radio to do history mystery every every week like to do an interview from my workshop a phone interview with me in my workshop Saturday workshop I'm doing dolls from other countries so I'll post the post about that I have to learn how to put pictures thanks everybody you're great
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From the same website......
Death of Oscar's wife
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/48250ab8-d04b-4b7a-8114-7e6f5c3230c5
PB
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White Pages shows only one listing with the right surname, but it is in Toronto.
Of course, children might well have moved away from the Vancouver area.
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Interviewed out this.morning on communityradio...ive been findingbout moresbout DO camps
We still don't know what "sand posts "means
Here's 13 highfield street
Wherethe Lender couple live
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I haven't had time to summarise print out story so far to give to antique salesman when I return box .
I know he would send it to descendants if he could we had a lot of pleasure fin ding out about this and I found another person to interview who s neighbour was a Polish lady proud of escaping the Russians who told him her story when he was a boy .
Not sure if I can attach audio link
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Asked researchers at Leicester &; Rutland family history society if they could come up with anything else .
The displaced persons camp was in sandplatz Germany + there is an image of Leena.Lindres grave .
I Have since learnt to crop photos .
So finally here's a picture. ....
nope file still too large
(A video can be found on Facebook..my history mysteries page )
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You can use the Paint program to make your image smaller. Open the image file with Paint. Select the 'Resize' icon. In the resize box, select 'Pixels' and make your image 500-600 pixels wide. The height will be automatically resized in proportion. Click 'OK.'
IMPORTANT: Save your resized image under a NEW name.
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Sandplatz in German is clay court (tennis), according to google translate in Estonian sandplats could mean sandpit or sand square. Maybe either meaning may make sense in terms of the box size and shape, a shoe box perhaps?
There was an Estonian tennis player called Made Lindre, born in 1939 in Hamann but I'm guessing that's just a coincedence and the surname probably isn't uncommon.
S_L
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thanks for extra information
no i cant use any apps or boxes in boxes to do anything with photos i did learn to crop photosand that sometimes works but not this time .
my brain wont take on new techniques but i can probably delegate the task to soeone who can do technology
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For goodness sake, get a grip. It's easy. You can do it.
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I WILL ask a computer person to follow eratos
Instructions + get this picture on this thread
Using my phone.( I really CAN'T do it myself..however much I can get a grip of ) .
Sad news : John HARDY of Oadby antiques has passed away since I started this quest
But he did know that we were making some headway.
I have given the box + my notes to a member of Leicestershire & Rutland family history society LRFHS
In the hope that it will be found a forever home somewhere.