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Messages - Chris_Beds

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Cornwall Completed Lookup Requests / Re: John HENWOOD
« on: Saturday 16 December 23 11:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

My grandmother was a Henwood, and they go back to Cornwall.  My 2nd great-grandfather was Thomas, who moved around a lot!  He was in St Blazey, Par, Portland, and by 1861 he had been posted to Weybourne in Norfolk.  I have no record of Garland though.  I'm sending a link to his profile so you can work around to see if there is a link.  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Henwood-102

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: John Dunkin Historical Society 1935 - Dartford?
« on: Tuesday 22 May 12 11:50 BST (UK)  »
Yes of course you may use it :)  I'd be delighted.  Let me know if you'd like a higher quality photo and it can be organised.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: John Dunkin Historical Society 1935 - Dartford?
« on: Tuesday 15 May 12 23:56 BST (UK)  »
Thank you!  That means my father must be in it somewhere.  He predated Mick Jagger by a few years but he was at Dartford Grammar between 1931 and 1938.  Intellectual fits too  ;D  He was quite scary.

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Lancashire / Re: News Chronicle - Manchester - Eccles
« on: Friday 18 November 11 23:22 GMT (UK)  »
Certainly there was a national newspaper called the "News Chronicle" until the late 1950's.  I remember it well :)  Apparently it was "absorbed" by the Daily Mail.  Maybe they have the archives.

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Bedfordshire / Re: John Walker Shefford
« on: Wednesday 02 November 11 08:50 GMT (UK)  »
If you're going to be walking around Shefford then maybe you'd find this site useful, if you haven't already found it.

http://www.sheffordtown.co.uk/

It describes walks telling you about the historical bits :)

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The Lighter Side / Re: What do you remember- seems impossible now
« on: Thursday 20 October 11 15:26 BST (UK)  »
I don't remember the Gazelle.  But we replaced the Chamois after 4 years and 100,000 miles with a Hillman Minx estate that would take dogs and pram - lovely.  But in white - you have to take what's going :)  Then in 1975 I got my own car - a 1957 Morris Minor - boy I was proud of it!

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The Lighter Side / Re: What do you remember- seems impossible now
« on: Thursday 20 October 11 12:09 BST (UK)  »
I remember petrol at 4/3d in the 60's - but a Singer Chamois didn't use much.

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The Lighter Side / Re: What do you remember- seems impossible now
« on: Wednesday 19 October 11 18:59 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: mike175 on Wednesday 19 October 11 18:17 BST (UK)
It's all too easy to forget the grime that seemed to cover just about everything when coal was the universal fuel, something I try to remember when I get nostalgic for steam trains ::)

Even so, there was something magical about those childhood train journeys, before Dr. Beeching got his hands on the railways >:(

"Quickies"? . . . most mums used to spit on a handkerchief to wipe your face ;) . . . don't remember mine doing it though.

I also remember all the buildings black with grime.  I never knew they should be lovely red brick or yellow stone! 

I never saw Quickies, it was always spit and a hankie for my face :(

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The Lighter Side / Re: What do you remember- seems impossible now
« on: Wednesday 19 October 11 15:48 BST (UK)  »
And I remember the chilblains that went with the ice on the inside of the window, and they came from sitting close to the open fire (unless that was just my mother's way of telling me not to hog the space in front of the fire!)

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