Always knowing that my mum fibbed about her age (and destroyed evidence where she could!), I have never taken ‘facts’ as correct without checking.
I thought mum was 2 yrs older than dad but it was actually 4. Marriage certificate showed 2yr difference but I was never sure exactly.
Excellent piece. This is very much how I work. Sometimes I am Sherlock Holmes 🕵🏻 Other times I feel like a dog digging for a bone - watch those little paws go, digging deeper and deeper 😆
I have an ABC too. Assume nothing, Believe nothing, Check and double check everything.
Not the job for me then. Photo looks much like my house. I have valid reasons for saving it all 🤦🏻♀️😆
#MuseumOfFamilyStuff
Ellen Nussey (1817–97), painting by Frederic Yates (1854–1919) held in the Brontë Parsonage Museum Collection Public Domain. Ellen Nussey was the lifelong friend and correspondent of author Charlotte Brontë.
Born just down the road from me in Birstall Smithies OTD, 20 April in 1817 Ellen Nussey was Charlotte Brontë’s closest lifelong friend and correspondent. She preserved hundreds of her letters written between 1831 and 1855. They offer an intimate record of Charlotte’s life,
A little gem as my Facebook memory today (not that I remember the 1939s personally!).
City of York 1930-1939, British Pathé
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Geanpool? Pharfest?
My copy is on my desk, whilst working on your course.
Not signed though.
Another Turpin link @ancestralenq.bsky.social Be that fact or myth, the current state of this historic building is a disgrace. Owners have promised repairs before. A pub we loved to use, I drive past regularly. Well done to the local community for raising awareness.
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I used to live opposite the Foss, a bit further up. It was definitely prettier there than round by the Castle!
Really?
Why is it there at all?
And the Foss is pretty much covered with green algae around there these days, not swans.
Can’t say I am convinced, maybe need to see it in person.
Congratulations to all!
There was a tv adaption of The Essex Serpent?? How did I miss that!
A fascinating story I came across last night. #WW1 #genealogy
An update yesterday says it has now been donated to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
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I can’t work out how to DM on here.
Were you there in time to pop into Puntons? Great shop, everything you need and more you never knew you needed!
I think I need this.
Oooh, you were in Snaith! I didn’t know. Not that I would have been there, I am 100 miles away. But it is home ground.
Book + York = No Brainer. Onto the TBB list it goes, immediately 👏🏻
Ordered my copy last night 👍🏻
How sad, I hadn’t seen that. I loved his work. Saw him during one of his theatre tours a few years ago.
I loved this book 🥰
In case you missed it, we had an eventful Easter! 16 million of our records, including our massive collection of wills, are now available to search and view on Ancestry.com (and can be accessed for free onsite at the Borthwick).
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I have been on the other pillow to sleep apnoea, it is an alarming thing to listen to. My husband refused to accept or acknowledge it - until I recorded him!
I hope the CPAP helps.
After visiting what seems like every pub on the road north to York (and others beyond). A wonder he got anywhere with all that drinking, or maybe that’s why he was caught 😉😆
I wanted the bridge, I did feel in the book that it was a key part of his character to do that.
Overall I enjoyed, it got there in the end but some subtleties had been dropped or moved around which affected how you see the characters at that point.
My grump was those gaudy dresses!
He was in York yesterday too. Must be a doppelgänger.
Princess Alexandra’s. I thought she was perfect. Timeless
Happy Easter 🐣
A little sketch from my Great Aunt’s autograph book when she was at teacher training college in 1922. There are some super sketches, little paintings in the book. Talented students, I may post a few more next week.
It was. Thank goodness.
Forgot to mention that reciting Upon Westminster Bridge in a garden is not the same as being on the bridge (nicely done as it was). They were on the bridge in the book or does my memory fail? Wasn’t that the point?