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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 […]
MoreHappy 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 […]
MoreTown 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 […]
MoreTake two at Ely station
My nickname is Loco, and I couldn’t resist another picture of me at my very own coffee bar!
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