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Church
A post (the one hundredth!) dedicated to St Monica's parish church. Above, an aerial view of where the church would be built! Here and there on the blog some pictures about Church practice have been posted (check this link, and that one): ...

Samedi 2 Janvier 2016 à 18:52

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The Triangle through the years
Above is a London bus blind which apparently can be bought on the net. As for the photos, I tried to post the pictures chronologically, but am not sure I have succeeded! I thought the presence  of a numbers of trees indicated a greate...

Lundi 21 Décembre 2015 à 00:52

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Broomfield Park swings
Over the past months, I have collected enough old photos of BP swings, slides, seesaws and witch hats for me to open this dedicated post. So here goes.

Mardi 15 Décembre 2015 à 23:35

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Nicknames
Some families disregard them, others thrive on them - let's say ours is somewhere in between?  A number of our family members had, and still have a nickname. What do they correspond to? What do they mean? Where do they come from? I've...

Mardi 15 Décembre 2015 à 01:35

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9DR Smells
Smells! I'm not sure I'm going to be able to re-evoke much of this aspect of 9 or 7 DR in this post if you haven't been there yourself - but then on the other hand, who reads this blog if they didn't use to know the two houses? Smells are ...

Samedi 12 Décembre 2015 à 06:50

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Oiseaux du jardin

Lundi 7 Décembre 2015 à 21:55

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Testimonies on Olive & Cecil from outside the family
A Hazelwood Lane school performance in 1966 A few weeks ago, I had told you that there were people on this FB page who mentioned Auntie Olive in her capacity of Headmistress of Hazelwood Lane Infants school, and I have written to them...

Lundi 28 Septembre 2015 à 18:48

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Linda Darnell
 

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Marilyn

Lundi 14 Septembre 2015 à 10:27

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more beauty

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Gene Tierney

Lundi 14 Septembre 2015 à 09:59

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Derwent road
Here are some pictures and things collected in relation to the actual street as it used to be. On the old map above, drawn before Derwent road was in existence, you can see that a rather large fish pond stood practically where DR was goin...

Lundi 7 Septembre 2015 à 01:48

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Broomfield Park 4-the Yacht pond
Some extra pictures of the Yacht or Boating pond I have collected - more of less chronologically. This first one is an aerial view: The swan necks are gone! (this makes me doubt if the photo was taken in Broomfield park) Not s...

Lundi 7 Septembre 2015 à 00:38

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A Facebook treasure trove!
Maybe some of you already know this Facebook page: Winchmore Hill and Palmers Green memories. But if you don't, and you're interested in views of what these two boroughs used to look like, the life which was lived there, say, ever since th...

Vendredi 4 Septembre 2015 à 23:22

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The Italian connection
 This summer we went to Lucca, Italy, and you probably know that our ancestor, Carlo Morganti, who was Grandpa's grandpa (his mother's father) came from a neighbouring village, Bagni di Lucca (above picture). Auntie Bee went there some...

Dimanche 23 Août 2015 à 22:42

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Suzanne Pleshette
A few pictures of Suzanne Pleshette (1937-2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Suzanne_Pleshette    

Lundi 22 Juin 2015 à 13:47

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Classic Beauty

Lundi 15 Juin 2015 à 00:14

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[Sans titre]
Finished reading "As I walked out one midsummer morning" and Two women"

Lundi 15 Juin 2015 à 00:00

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Nutan's grace
Here are a few photos and a song to celebrate Nutan's grace! The pictures are taken from the film Heer (1956): she was 20!

Vendredi 12 Juin 2015 à 23:31

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spotted!

Vendredi 15 Mai 2015 à 10:40

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Garden fixtures
In the Hughes' gardens, there weren't many additions of the kind you now often see, fancy gazebos, or ponds with a fountain, or a separation in the hedge leading to another part. It was very much a no-nonsense garden. Very small, relatively...

Samedi 28 Février 2015 à 19:13

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Palmers Green Railway station
I knew I'd have to do this one sooner or later... Today the train station has acquired a number of features it didn't use to have when I was a boy in PG (above, the 1970s). Compare with below: For me the story of this little train station...

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