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How many of your rellies homes/workplaces are stil
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Phoenix | Report | 1 Jun 2006 12:32 |
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The descriptions of the damp, insanitary hovels, with a ladder up to the sleeping area, where most of my ancestors would have lived in Edgefield, Norfolk mean that they scarcely needed to be demolished: they would have fallen down at a touch! One of my Edmund Skillings did move to Dragaway, however, and I've visited his cottage. Even have a photo. The agressively modern wallpaper made it impossible to visualise the place as it had once been, though. The only reason I got in was because it was reputedly haunted, by a man in a Norfolk jacket. |
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Glen In Tinsel Knickers | Report | 1 Jun 2006 12:31 |
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Hi Heather I was doing just the same a few weeks ago,when i moved i didn't know that my other line had come from these parts. Spooky isn't it,i worked 30 yards from the church where g g/m got married for four years,then moved to where my other g g/m had her children and died.Now i often visit the church where she is buried and wander along the beach where she went with her hubby (the coastguard chap). I found out yesterday that the first house i bought was the very same building that a great uncle lived in during 1901.A very small world. Glen |
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Heather | Report | 1 Jun 2006 12:14 |
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Well Glen, as you know I wasnt aware I moved to my rellies homeground 20 odd years ago - the small town is still very ancient in most places so when I walk along the roads and look at the market cross and go to the abbey, I know all my ancestors have walked the same roads, seen the same buildings - its brilliant. If I go to the abbey I walk down the aisle that my ancestors did when they married. If I sit on the pews in the little country church 3 miles away I know I am sitting in the same place and looking at the same stained windows and carved decorations as them. Fabulozo or what? |
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Glen In Tinsel Knickers | Report | 1 Jun 2006 12:12 |
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Have many people managed to find the buildings that are former family homes/workplaces?Are they 'grand' places or somewhere you would rather not be?A large part of my family lived and worked in the Steep Hill/High St/Bailgate part of Lincoln.Save for new shopfronts the buildings remain pretty much as they were (and no renumbering to worry about either).Glen |
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