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Hi IreneinSpain

I don't know... I'm only a baby at this game...

My oldest is Samuel Turner 1811- 1895 from Lydeard St. Lawrence Somerset.

It's She’s family really

But an interesting lot.

I have yet to pluck up courage to go down there to look at parish records

OOOhh Michael* - NOT the ironing bord ?????

Forget that - how is your little grandchild ??

Dea x

I remember the open fire at home and I was 4 when we moved away from there

Ermm...having ear ache when I must have been about three

ooh and having my skirts let down by my child minder and the nuns...I must have been about 3/4

Come on it was late 60's...all the rage man ;)

Keep up the messages - I will catch up with them in the morning !!

Nite Nite !!

Dea Xxx

Hang on....just read that again


Told my mum they laid me on an ironing board

You mean they opped on you there and then? God grief man when were you born?

Hope you are better dressed when ironing these days Fans......:)))


18 months..? Erm........not even sure where I was living then to be honest.


My youngest grandchild is on his last week in primary school.......ahhh. Growing up too fast.........he had a 'girlfriend' up to a few weeks ago. They broke up. I commiserated. He replied....."I'm not bothered, I'd rather go to high school single anyway" !!............:)))))

Peter

I was very lucky - my family started with Turner and Palmer - both from Dorset villages - when they married they married from own village or couple of villages over - so I could use all the opcdorset on line baptisms death and marriages - and the OPC themselves are superb - will check out queries - help by email - brilliant

Not sure if Somerset have something similar - there is a thread listing all the county OPC

Irene

Peter

I was very lucky - my family started with Turner and Palmer - both from Dorset villages - when they married they married from own village or couple of villages over - so I could use all the opcdorset on line baptisms death and marriages - and the OPC themselves are superb - will check out queries - help by email - brilliant

Not sure if Somerset have something similar - there is a thread listing all the county OPC

Irene

I can remember screaming and screaming and screaming ......... and my grandmother trying to soothe me. And someone saying "I can't stop her screaming"

I remember that we were in a dark place



It was when a bomb was dropped about 3 streets away

I must have been about 2


I can then remember people exclaiming the next morning that we still had windows, they hadn't broken

I then remember looking out of the window to see the street covered with broken glass (as every other house had lost their windows due to the bomb blast) ............... and seeing my grandparents fox terrier picking his way across the street from their house.


and I remember everyone exclaiming when he got to our house that he didn't have even the tiniest scratch on him, anywhere.





sylvia

Peter - not looked at site but this is web address

http://wsom-opc.org.uk/
Somerset Online Parish Clerks


Irene

Wow...Sylv, that’s some memory hun...

Are you writing this down for your descendants?


x

Ladylol pussey cat has been selected and asked to choose 3 more people !!!

Really good random sample

Rene

If you ask our Sylv nicely Ginny, she may tell you what Nelson looked like!!





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Oh no. Watching Victoria Pharmacy. There are things on there that I remember!! arghhh.

Sylv, remember those pop bottles with the springy flip off tops??? My grandma always had some in for me when we went to stay with her for the holidays.

AND the history of Worcestershire sauce was really interesting.

OK...so you offer help in looking for living relatives..(PM)


Go about the BMD stuff and find what they need...

...then, you get

Can you look on FaceBook and see if they are a member

Err....nope!

Pakled as our JC might say

Needless to say, I have had no more communication

Sylv, remember those pop bottles with the springy flip off tops




Yep Cyns..they were.....

Grolsch....1980's

I remember selling those grolsch bottles in the 80s did they stop making them like that?

Oh when you have found them on facebook could you send them a message Gins

ja...x

Ja..x


Errr...nope

Soz hun...tried to help!

Hi Gins


not written it down, but have told people



gosh C ..... you're another one who likes asking for trouble aintcha?


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I do remember those pop bottles

....... I also remember that my dad usually had a soda syphon in the house ....... a metal one

I seem to remember that we filled it with water, and then we got sparkling water out of it.




I also remember my granddad slipping up to the off licence at the top of the street and getting them to fill a jug or a bottle with stout

... and then giving me an eg cup filled with it


Mum apparently always believed her parents were teetotal, and wondered why I slept so well after they had looked after me for the evening :)))))))



and I remember Mum smoking 1 cigarette a week ........... they were sometimes called cocktail cigarette ...... Sobranie, that's the name.

Each one was wrapped in a different coloured paper


very 1920s!


which is when she was a young woman of course!!!



s
xxx

Oh yes......soda syphons! Very chic as I remember.


I can only remember back as far back as about 3 years old. My mum took me to a party and I remember sitting at the head of the table and feeling very important. Shades of committee meetings to come maybe???


I remember when tinned salmon followed by a fruit salad was very 'in' for Sunday afternoon teas.