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Where roads meet | staffordshirebred
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. Out of the woods →. March 23, 2015. 8230;………Fragments of hand written notes come to me from my Aunt Mary about her early years in Stonnall and Walsall Wood, and married life in Lynn Lane, transcribed by my cousin Rosalind. Along with stories I remember her telling me, these form the entire basis of what follows…. There’s yet another commotion in Aldridge Road. What is it now? ME the only one with a skirt. We tied door knobs together, knocked the doors and watched the s...
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. Monthly Archives: September 2014. September 1, 2014. My parents finished building the house at 155 Bosty Lane, Aldridge by the summer of 1957. They had, by this time, been married for almost nine years. These had been nine years of a childless, double-income life in rented rooms comprising half of … Continue reading →. Out of the woods. Add other ingredients and mix well. On The Name of the Rose. Ian T (London) on The Name of the Rose. On A figure in the mist.
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Out of the woods | staffordshirebred
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. Out of the woods. April 11, 2015. Great Uncle Jack (John Horton, left) and his younger brother, my grandad (Alfred Noah Horton). Footherley, early 1960s. There wasn’t much that my skilful dad couldn’t do for an old building like Fishpond. Fishponds Cottages, in the early 20th century. Via oldmapsonline.org. Fishponds was a strange place to live, when you think about it: Isolated, unconnected to the nearby settlements of Stonnall or Walsall Wood, which were, even so, so nea...
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. Monthly Archives: October 2014. For Whom the Bell Tolls. October 24, 2014. I inhabit – for the time being – a small rural hamlet strung just off the A513, and equidistant between two enduringly olde worlde villages, a few miles north of Lichfield in Staffordshire. It’s the sort of quiet place that Torment and … Continue reading →. Let’s join hands. October 14, 2014. Out of the woods. Add other ingredients and mix well. On The Name of the Rose. On A figure in the mist.
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. April 27, 2016. Like many old dwellings, Keepers Cottage, Orgreave boasted a wooden threshold gently gouged concave with age, but not at the front door, through which I was ceremoniously carried, when we became its owners. No, this one had been fashioned by the tread … Continue reading →. Out of the woods. April 11, 2015. March 23, 2015. January 18, 2015. I wonder whether Orgreave House feels uncertain…. and a little wistful…. about its identity? January 5, 2015. I paused ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls | staffordshirebred
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. Let’s join hands. Add other ingredients and mix well →. For Whom the Bell Tolls. October 24, 2014. But this cannot be true! The Old Tollgate Cottage, twixt Alrewas and Kings Bromley. From a contemporary press photograph. What is the matter, my dear? 8221; , his face bending tenderly towards her poor broken head. Within the luxuriant tresses of hair that crowned Alice Maude’s somewhat ordinary-looking face, there nestled an envelope. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.
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A long way from the seaside….thankfully | staffordshirebred
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. 8220;Spite Hill”. It’s a Carousel →. A long way from the seaside….thankfully. May 14, 2013. Edited image of train travelling evacuees from history.co.uk. What have you to say about your experiences there? The villagers of Shenstone were, like most of their countrymen, primed and ready for the fight against Nazi Germany in the late summer of 1939. Wanted home. They all went, leaving us all wondering why did we have children from less than 18 miles away? It was in May 1940 t...
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Ringing home | staffordshirebred
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. Piping down the valleys wild. Let’s join hands →. September 1, 2014. Now a mortgage had been taken out by the new property-owners in order to purchase the plot of land and the materials for their home (a risibly small sum by 21st century standards), and they decided to begin this new phase of their life with a celebratory fortnight’s holiday in Berrynarbor, North Devon. Simon, our English Setter. 8220;English Setter Puppies For Sale,” read the chalked sign outside the.
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Yet another currency check | Andy's Blog
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Writings of a UK based Private Pilot. Laquo; 2014 Summary. Yet another currency check. It had been a long time since my last flight with Charlie. And as a result I was out of pretty much all of my currency requirements, including 90 day passenger carrying. December is always a pretty busy month for us, so it was unsurprising that I hadn’t managed to fly. However, I made several attempts to fly in January, that were all thwarted by either weather or a particularly drawn out cold. I arrived at Kemble to se...
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Uncategorized | staffordshirebred
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Where I'm from shapes who I am. April 27, 2016. Like many old dwellings, Keepers Cottage, Orgreave boasted a wooden threshold gently gouged concave with age, but not at the front door, through which I was ceremoniously carried, when we became its owners. No, this one had been fashioned by the tread … Continue reading →. Out of the woods. April 11, 2015. March 23, 2015. January 18, 2015. I wonder whether Orgreave House feels uncertain…. and a little wistful…. about its identity? January 5, 2015. I paused ...
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