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In post 113 of this thread I mentioned my grandad who served in WW1. Here is a photo of him in uniform with his wife, taken I would think when he was callled up in 1917. There is also a picture of a postcard he sent from the front, transcript below. Thankfully he came safely home eventually.
Transcript of postcard: France. Oct 5/17. Friday Dear Sisters, I am going up the trenches Tomorrow Sat so of course I shall Have to Look out for myself now I am writing to you to tell my mother as easy as you can for I know she will be upset when she gets to know this but tell Her I am alright and well. Florrie look after Bertram [his son, my dad] Your Loving Brother Bert XXX |
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Great bit of family history, Sue. Didn't people have impeccable handwriting in those days?
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I have recently acquired quite a few bits of family history, my dad passed things to me before he died, and my 81 year old cousin gave me quite a lot of old photos. I posted the following on the museum thread a few weeks ago. Quote:
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My mum also received 10 journals, letters and documents from a cousin which were written by her grand-father, grand-mother and the younger members of the family. They are full of amazing things - family daily house-hold accounts (item +price), letters about my Great-grandad's mining patents (including one to Lloyd-George with reply) -from these you can see he fell out with his brother who was partner in the patents. There is a draft copy of the letter my Grandad wrote to Ribble buses in Preston applying for his first job, he eventually worked there for 50 years! Children's games and puzzles, homework and a poignant page where my Great-aunty Lucy was practising her "new" signature before she married -that was to her first husband who turned out to be a "bad'un"! It's amazing what gets lost from one generation to the other so it's even more important to conserve and maintain these things which document the ordinary lives of our families and how they lived.:) |
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Just logged in after a rather long absence from the Accy Web. I couldn't help but feel more than a twinge of nostalgia when I read about Central Prep School. I was a pupil there from 1956 to 1963 and after taking the dreaded 'Scholarship' (11 plus) went to St Mary's College, Blackburn.
The teachers' names ring very loud bells: Miss Caulfield, followed by Mrs Kilshaw; Miss Backhouse (my favourite); Miss Hackwood (the terror of many). |
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Yes, was Mrs. Her husband was quite a lot older than her and she was a widow for a very long time. They had lived in Cuba at one time. She had a long life (in her 90's), and very alert in her mind until the end. |
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Ah, right. For some reason (probably due to failing memory) I always thought of her as 'Miss'. As a 'newbie' my classmates were David Greenhalgh, Andrew Ormerod, Andrew Nuttall, Brian Cookson, Peter Whittaker, Christine Court, Ann-Marie Stanley, Gillian Torevell - to name but a few.
I remember vividly Mrs Backhouse playing the piano at assembly. In particular, she could play elements of Tchaikovsky's concerto no 1 - which appealed to me greatly. I never knew where she lived (we used to live at that time in Cedar St) nor that she had lived to such a good age. It;s nice to know that my memories of her kindness are shared by others. |
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I think she lived in Robert Street just off Penny House Lane if its the lady I think you are talking about,Pure white hair and glasses?
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