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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. A Red Hot Yiddishe Mamma. Let’s talk about one of the original red hot mammas – Miss Sophie Tucker (1884-1966). If I had a spangly frock & feather fascinator, I’d sit down at the piano and do one of her numbers for you. Her signature number was ‘Some Of These Days’ and I’ve had the pleasure of hearing this 1911 cylinder recording on an original phonograph. What I h...But it’s Yidd...
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Stories | Me, Myself & Aye
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. As Jenny pinned a rosebud cut fresh from the garden onto her frock, she remembered standing in this scullery for the very first time exactly a year ago. Then, she had been an excited bride clutching a posy of lily-of-the-valley tied up with blue haberdasher’s ribbon. The Dickens family was a large one and Jenny’s mother often struggled to keep poverty from the door. Arthur however w...
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Maternal Tree – Somerville | Me, Myself & Aye
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. Maternal Tree – Somerville. How To Be A Retronaut. National Library of Scotland. Royal College of Music. Maternal Tree – Benson. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Paternal Tree – Higgins.
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American | Me, Myself & Aye
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. A Red Hot Yiddishe Mamma. Let’s talk about one of the original red hot mammas – Miss Sophie Tucker (1884-1966). If I had a spangly frock & feather fascinator, I’d sit down at the piano and do one of her numbers for you. Her signature number was ‘Some Of These Days’ and I’ve had the pleasure of hearing this 1911 cylinder recording on an original phonograph. What I h...But it’s Yidd...
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Photos | Me, Myself & Aye
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. The Magic of the Merrygoround. Gorgeous prancing gallopers with barleytwist poles await their riders. A painted ceiling shimmers with lights and the music begins…. Click the arrow to listen to some traditional fairground music. All Photographs Rachel Cowan. Threads of Blue Happiness. Baby blue cotton thread. Last used by my mother. And a greeting card. From the 1920s with. I wot there l...
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. A Red Hot Yiddishe Mamma. Let’s talk about one of the original red hot mammas – Miss Sophie Tucker (1884-1966). If I had a spangly frock & feather fascinator, I’d sit down at the piano and do one of her numbers for you. Her signature number was ‘Some Of These Days’ and I’ve had the pleasure of hearing this 1911 cylinder recording on an original phonograph. What I h...But it’s Yidd...
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Music | Me, Myself & Aye
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. A Red Hot Yiddishe Mamma. Let’s talk about one of the original red hot mammas – Miss Sophie Tucker (1884-1966). If I had a spangly frock & feather fascinator, I’d sit down at the piano and do one of her numbers for you. Her signature number was ‘Some Of These Days’ and I’ve had the pleasure of hearing this 1911 cylinder recording on an original phonograph. What I h...But it’s Yidd...
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Maternal Tree – Benson | Me, Myself & Aye
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. Maternal Tree – Benson. How To Be A Retronaut. National Library of Scotland. Royal College of Music. Maternal Tree – Benson. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Paternal Tree – Higgins.
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Gallimaufry | Me, Myself & Aye
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Me, Myself and Aye. Paternal Tree – Cowan. Maternal Tree – Somerville. Paternal Tree – Higgins. Maternal Tree – Benson. The inner life, the one racketing around inside the brain, has a lot in common with the railway. Maps, connections, cows blocking the line. Welcome to the 10.39 for your Final Destination, change at Crewe for Purgatory & All Stations West. Here though there are no deadlines, just neuron engines pulling uphill to the summit. There are some rather snazzy branch lines (immaculate destinati...