Family History
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Trains and Boats and Flights! A Day to Remember
We often spent a week in the summer holidays with out grandma in Woolston and I must have been about eight years old when she took my sister and I on a little adventure. We waited excitedly for the bus at the end of Newtown Road, Woolston and climbed to the top deck for the first leg of our journey to…
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100th Post! Diana Jackson gives an on line Interview
What are your earliest memories of writing when you were a child? My earliest recollections of writing creatively for pleasure must have been in my mid teens when I started writing poetry and short stories. I still have some of them in my memories box! What inspired you to write Riduna? Well, I wrote a…
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Serendipity
Definition on Marriam Webster.com: The faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for: Serendipity is the second of my best loved words. (see post of Agapé) Serendipity is, of course better known than ‘agapé’ although it is none the less pleasing when I think of it. A dear elderly friend of…
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Curious Coincidences
It was while I was researching the historical background for Riduna and my parents continued to discover more information about our family tree that we experienced some strange coincidences. Curious but True – On one occasion my parents were visiting Guernsey. They had booked up through their local travel agent to stay at a small hotel in St Peter…
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Southampton- Personal memories
My earliest memories of Southampton itself are taking trips with my grandma on the bus via Northern Bridge or the more exciting route to Woolston and over The Floating Bridge. We would sit excitedly on the front seat at the top of a red double decker, if we could. I know my grandpa on my…
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Woolston, Southampton- A Personal View part 1
My parents were born in Woolston, Southampton and were married in Holy Trinity Church on Weston Lane, in fact my mother became a Queen’s Guide there. My uncle and grandpa both worked for Supermarine and for my grandpa it was following a variety of jobs including running a grocer’s shop and working as a stevedore.…