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A Blast from the Past: May 2013
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A Blast from the Past. Sunday, May 12, 2013. Taplow Court - Part 2. I remember that first weekend in April ‘68 as if it were yesterday. You see, I found myself boarded for the week in a very strange sort of ‘run-down’ riverside hotel, which had obviously seen better days. Old lace curtains, musty carpets and limp faded pot-plants: you know the sort of thing. The personnel dept. had sent me all the details so I had no good reason not to follow it up. I rang this lady advertising ‘room for single gen...
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Early Days in Bournville: January 2011
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Early Days in Bournville. Friday, 7 January 2011. Part 3 - Round at his Mates. Both my parents, in those early days, worked for Cadburys. Cadburys - From Bournville Lane. Before I was born, my mother worked, I believe in the export office and my father,. After a spell with George Masons, the grocery chain,. Went to work at Cadburys and was simply classified as a ’Confectioner’. I have no other information on what he actually did in his first years there,. Other than this rather broad description. So, my ...
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Early Days in Bournville: Part 2 - Linden Road
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Early Days in Bournville. Tuesday, 28 December 2010. Part 2 - Linden Road. Perhaps it would be more truthful if I started with:-. 8220;I remember, I remember, the house where my Mother and I,. And Grand-parents lived, when I was nine days old.”. Dad was away in the RAF.). It doesn’t quite have the same poetic appeal as the original, does it? But it is at least true. Mom and Dad, Linden Road. I can remember nearly everything about “Nan’s in Linden Road.”. But perhaps not back to nine days old! I have no c...
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Early Days in Bournville: April 2012
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Early Days in Bournville. Wednesday, 18 April 2012. Part 4 - August 1941. I’ve only just noticed that it is over a year now, since I put up the previous post here. I always intended to do this as a ‘background’ job, but I did not intend to get quite so far behind as this. My mother and father were married during the War years, and from what I can gather, it was a modest affair with just a ‘handful‘ of relations present. Church of St Francis - Linden Rd., Bournville. Bournville Rest House with Junior Scho...
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Early Days in Bournville: Part 4 - August 1941
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Early Days in Bournville. Wednesday, 18 April 2012. Part 4 - August 1941. I’ve only just noticed that it is over a year now, since I put up the previous post here. I always intended to do this as a ‘background’ job, but I did not intend to get quite so far behind as this. My mother and father were married during the War years, and from what I can gather, it was a modest affair with just a ‘handful‘ of relations present. Church of St Francis - Linden Rd., Bournville. Bournville Rest House with Junior Scho...
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A Blast from the Past: April 2012
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A Blast from the Past. Friday, April 6, 2012. Why a new blog? And what am I going to write about here? Well, since I have been sorting through the hundreds of old prints and negatives ‘inherited’ from my parents and grandparents, I have found that there are many that don’t fall into the category - ‘my early days of childhood’, but are still interesting, or maybe interesting to future generations. Suffered in her stays.". Here, is the answer. Aunty Gladys - 1905. All photography involved taking. 8216;nega...
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A Blast from the Past: All Dressed Up.
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A Blast from the Past. Monday, December 3, 2012. Do you remember when ‘Fancy dress’ parties were all the rage? They don’t seem to be quite as popular these days - but perhaps I’m not now ‘moving in the right circles’? We were always having them at our Youth club way back in Bournville around 1964 and they were extremely popular in my early days at Taplow (1968-74). The first one off, is of Dad and Stan (with a fox stole). Looking a right pair of pansies! Stan and Dad as. Here’s the answer. This, believe ...
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A Blast from the Past: October 2012
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A Blast from the Past. Friday, October 12, 2012. Taplow Court - Part 1. 1968. To make a change from the ‘Family archive’ pictures, I thought I may,. On this post step back just a mere 44 years to 1968. The 30th of March 1968, to be precise. The old Morris 1000 was parked outside my bed-sit loaded up with a suitcase,. A tape recorder and a brother. For the previous two or three years I had been living here, in a bed-sit in Laburnum Rd. My bed-sit was in the house just in the picture on the left. I had gra...
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A Blast from the Past: Making a Start
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A Blast from the Past. Friday, April 6, 2012. Why a new blog? And what am I going to write about here? Well, since I have been sorting through the hundreds of old prints and negatives ‘inherited’ from my parents and grandparents, I have found that there are many that don’t fall into the category - ‘my early days of childhood’, but are still interesting, or maybe interesting to future generations. Suffered in her stays.". Here, is the answer. Aunty Gladys - 1905. All photography involved taking. 8216;nega...
