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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Doodlebugs - the last one
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 19:07 GMT (UK)  »
I know the feeling, a bit like a dog with a rat!!  You're a star.  I'll let you know if I find out anything.  It's always nice to get a result and know that it's a result!!  I feel very sad sometimes when I've provided information to someone, and it's not acknowledged.  Thank you costs nothing!  But then I'm old and decrepit, but I was brought up properly!

BumbleB


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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Doodlebugs - the last one
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 17:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much Barry.  Very useful.  I'll certainly try Islington.  I really hate Kew!!  Only been there once, and if I can possibly help it, I won't return.  I don't find it at all user-friendly, and the website is even worse!  Grumble, grumble, grumble.

BumbleB

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Doodlebugs - the last one
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 16:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi:  I'm working a bit third party here, I got my cousin to ring through and then he came back with this:

When T was about 2, their house in the Chapel Market area of Angel, Islington, was hit by the last doodlebug to land on London.  The explosion demolished both the house and the one next door where the grandparents lived.  Both grandparents were killed, along with an uncle.

T was registered in March quarter 1939 in Islington registration district.

I did ask my husband who was born in London in 1940 what he understood by doodlebug, and he said V1.  It had something to do with the noise they made, until the engine stopped.  V2's were silent in flight according to him.

BumbleB

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Doodlebugs - the last one
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 15:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi I'd found that one as well, but this guy says that his grandparents were killed when their house collapsed, and he gave an address around The Angel, Islington.  I'm wodering whether he was confused as I can't find two deaths registered in that area for the period towards the end of the war, so wondered if I'd got it wrong about the timing of the last bombing.

Thanks anyway.

BumbleB

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Doodlebugs - the last one
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 14:57 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone have an idea when the last of the Doodlebugs was dropped on London, and where?  I've been told it was somewhere around Islington.  Any help wouldbe appreciated.

BumbleB

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The Common Room / Re: help deciphering handwriting please
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 14:23 GMT (UK)  »
I've just been out for a couple of hours, but I think that you probably have all the answers.  Highroad Well is at the top of Pellon Lane.  I went to a local FHS meeting the other week and the talk was on AG Labs, and Trees is right, employers were very naughty in that they terminated employmnet the day before the year was up, or made an excuse that the worker had not put in his full time.  If that happened then the worker had no right of settlement, and was sent back to his last settlement area for them to foot the bill.  Some modern-day employers haven't changed too much!!

BumbleB

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The Common Room / Re: help deciphering handwriting please
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 09:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi:  can I put my tuppence-worth in.  I think the first query is an abbreviation for Highroad Well (or Highroadwell - my grandmother always seemed to run the two words together and I don't really know which is the correct way of writing it), and the second is Southowram and Ovenden.

BumbleB

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The Common Room / Re: can anyone read shorthand?
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 08:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the explanation Igor, I don't remember the Red Tents at all, but then I went to College to learn so probably used different methods of exercise. 

And to go off at another tangent - I went to see Julie Felix last night!  She is still performing well - at 70!!  But she did spare us "Going to the Zoo" on this occasion.  Tom Paxton is also still going strong, protesting as always, and his old songs are just as relevant today as they were in the 60's.  We haven't learnt much in 40 years.

BumbleB

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The Common Room / Re: can anyone read shorthand?
« on: Saturday 29 November 08 16:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi IgorStrav - you've got me there.  What is/are RED TENTS?  Doesn't ring bells with me.  And no, I don't listen to the radio and type imaginatively, hadn't really thought about that one.  But it is so much easier to be able to touchtype, you just do it!  I think when this thread finally dies I shall print it off, just to keep as a souvenir of what these youngsters missed!!  Actually when I was telling my daughter (aged 40+) about this thread, she joined in as well, as she remembered having to do "little finger" exercises to strengthen them.  I never did because I've always cheated and used my ring fingers - as long as I keep my first fingers on the home keys, I've always managed it.

BumbleB

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