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Is this my great-granddad’s granddad?

Family Stories by LoisJuly 19, 2018July 20, 2018

Those that are fools

Writing by LoisJuly 29, 2017July 29, 2017

Family Stories by LoisJanuary 3, 2017September 10, 2018

River Cruise on Board M.C. Belle, August 28th 1937

I often think back to my dad and the wonderful stories he told about his life; I am lucky enough to have inherited a dairy he kept, one August in 1937. I have shared this before but I think it’s worth sharing again! My dad was born in 1919 in Saffron Walden in Essex; he was […]

Family Stories by LoisAugust 18, 2016September 10, 2018

Happy birthday!

Today would have been my dad’s birthday; here is something I wrote a couple of years ago, about a holiday he and his best friend took seventy-nine years ago! My dad was born in 1919 in Saffron Walden in Essex; he was christened in Peterborough Cathedral, but spent most of his life in Cambridge. From an early age […]

Family Stories by LoisDecember 20, 2013

Town not gown

Sometimes, when I say I was born and brought up in Cambridge people accuse me (yes accuse is not too strong a word!) accuse me of being posh. They associate Cambridge with the prestigious university which has been there for about eight hundred years, not the town which has been there for two thousand if […]