Woolston
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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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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.…
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Researching for Riduna
The quest for research began in the summer of 1999. I spent some time in the Alderney Museum which was helpful and informative. At that time I was a primary teacher and so I also visited Aylesbury Library archives during my holidays and was let into the depths of the County Hall tower, where there…