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The Lighter Side / Re: Picturing our ancestors lives.
« on: Sunday 13 March 16 18:14 GMT (UK) »
I couldn't agree more. I found my ancestors' croft on the west coast of Scotland intact and was able to look inside the house as the builders were restoring it. Also we located the later generations of that family's tenement houses in Greenock.
A family history bonus happened when I spotted my gt gt gt grandparents' house from the Magical Mystery Tour bus in Woolton near Liverpool.
London was a disappointment, since Selfridges swallowed up my gt grandfather's chemists shop and the house they subsequently inhabited had been replaced by a block of flats. In the case of London though, so many street views survive that it is easier to imagine what life was like there in the late 19th century.
A family history bonus happened when I spotted my gt gt gt grandparents' house from the Magical Mystery Tour bus in Woolton near Liverpool.
London was a disappointment, since Selfridges swallowed up my gt grandfather's chemists shop and the house they subsequently inhabited had been replaced by a block of flats. In the case of London though, so many street views survive that it is easier to imagine what life was like there in the late 19th century.
