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Paternal:

Walter James RADLETT m Maria Antionette DOUGHTY 1877 Rotherhithe, London
John Alfred BRAY m Elizabeth Anne RIVERS 1894 Rotherhithe, London
William Bartholomew CHAMBERS m Anne Elizabeth LOCK 1893 Malmesbury, Wiltshire
George DAVIS m Emily WICKS 1888 Malmesbury, Wiltshire

Maternal:

James SMITH m Catherine WALLEDGE 1858 Edmonton, Middlesex
Benjamin FLOOK MONKS m Sarah Frances GUNNELL 1865 Lambeth, London
David LAVENDER m Ann LAVENDER 1862 Ruislip, Middlesex
Edward ABREHART m Ann SIMMONS 1875 Mitcham, Surrey

  Kim 

My daughter thought that a long time ago the entire world was in black, grey & white, and one day color appeared.
She got that from the fact that all old movies were black & white.  New movies are in color,......

To be fair, I still imagine my ancestors living in a black and white world!

I agree that it is sad that so many places no longer exist but I wouldn't turn the clock back for anything. Where I live, has been built on an old brewery that was surrounded by slum housing. Poverty was everywhere, children were generally mudlarks with no education, women were prostitues or worked every hour possible raising large families and taking in odd jobs. It is now completely redeveloped, apart from a few Georgian buildings. We now have safe streets, good quality housing and a far better quality of life. I'm just glad so many places were photographed before redevelopment so we can enjoy the areas without the reality that came with it.

Kim

I use my 1996 mobile phone in history lessons - they think it is a brick and were very shocked that although I had one at sixteen, not everyone had one and we rarely sent text messages.

The fact that computers made a noise when connecting to the internet and you had to wait for what felt like hours for it to load.

We didn't use MS Word but a blue screened Word Perfect to type documents

We had a black and white TV in our kitchen as late as 1985.

My classroom had one of the giant chalk boards that you rolled round, no Interactive white boards or plastic white wipe-clean numbers.

We had one computer for the whole school when I was at primary school in the late 1980s, but no ever used it because a) it only had one program on it and b) none of the Teachers could use it.

If I wanted to talk to my friends privately (or more likely, a boy, secretly) on the phone, I would have to walk into town to the red phone box and put money in it to use the phone.

Having yo fast forward a cassette tape in order to rewind the other side because not all cassette players had rewind buttons.

I teach primary aged kids, so I have this conversation all the time. I'm only 31 but so much from my youth seems alien to them, especially anything to do with technology.

Kim

This has worked quite well as I'm able to not only record the names but also a brief description such as 'Brother in Law, married to no.4' or 'Workmate from Philips TVs'
Heather

Just being nosey Heather, but did you really have relatives who worked at Phillips? Was it in Croydon? I only ask because most of my maternal immediate family worked there!

Kim