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Great photo’s Lyn, I enjoy seeing new photos I haven’t seen before. At the bottom of the road is that the Carnegie building and all the Jewellery buildings (Samuels). My sister worked down there.
Great photo’s Lyn, working at Spring Hill, I use to attend a dentist on monument road. No 8 route. It’s like every where the changes with time. Thankful for historians and BHF.
Hi Lyn, Irene & John James are on your eroll for number 60 Porchester St. My parents are on the eroll number 60 I posted. Have I posted it on the wrong thread. How often do they update the eroll’s?
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Jackie
Hi Nico, it’s where the bombs had hit it. It’s deserted piece of ground that was full of rubble and small craters, a bomb sites ( later demolition sites). Children use to play on them.
This brings back memories, I was born in Porchester St. back to back in the 60s I remember going up the entry to the toilets where we all shared, there were plenty of spiders in there, squares of newspaper on a nail, for toilet roll. My sisters use to go to the bomb peck to collect wood for the...
Hi Sharron, hope all is well. Yes we are cousins. Irene Elsie Evans was my grandmother, I met her I was very young. We use to visit her in the cotswolds. I have the postcard/wedding cards and news paper cutting of her and Charles since my father past away 16th January 2019. My father was your...
If it was for you posting it I wouldn’t of known, very grateful for this and the BHF a brilliant site. I just wish I could get hold of some old photo’s.
What a beautiful photo, what a treasure. With plenty of dark hair, I was born with plenty of dark hair your mother must of had plenty of heart burn. I would of loved to have a close photo of me and my parents so young.