Family Stories by Lois

100 years ago today

A hundred years ago today, Dorothy Alice Colgate was born to her mother Augusta, and father Ernest Colgate, in Bletchingley, Surrey. Augusta was the youngest of a large family of Browns, she was born in 1891, the youngest of eleven children. Ernest, in contrast came from a family of four, three sisters and he was […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Fun!

  I was just wandering round a department store, just waiting for an appointment, when I found myself for no reason in the children’s section. What cute clothes they have for babies now! My daughter loves ladybirds… but she is a little too big for this now! I call my husband Bee…

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