Genealogy Forum UK

Goodbye Bafana - Joseph Fiennes; true story of a special guard and his special prisoner - Nelson Mandela, over a 25 year period - saved on sky box, rewatched it, bought DVD - amazing film.

I will add "In Dulce Jubilo" by Steeleye Span
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This Xmas I would like to put up a tree in my heart, and instead of hanging presents, I would like to put the names of all my friends. close friends and not so close friends. The old friends the new friends. Those that I see everyday And the ones I rarely see. The ones That I always remember and th...

Quite a Black Country Girl NAME >>>>>>>>>>>> Mary Bowater CRIME >>>>>>>>>>>Convicted for stealing a coat PUNISHMENT >>>>>>Mary Bowater was tried at Stafford on 20 March 1802 - 7years transportation to New South Wales ; More....... she finally arrived aboard ”The Experiment” in Sydney 24...

Kiss chase!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

& what should probably be in a separate posting - navy blue knickers and liberty bodices

cold feet in wellingtons in the snow; knicker elastic garters to hold yer socks up.........and bloody hair ribbons!

Daisy chains ; one penny packets (old money) packed to bursting of broken crisps; blackjacks and gobstoppers;muffin the mule (no rude comments here);horse drawn milk carts - family arguments about who had to and collect the muck for the roses; rag and bone men; the queens coronation lasting foreveee...

Having been looking at several of mine from the Ancestry War records - did I really want to know that several got the clap in France or bunions on their feet ..... .........what has amazed me is how small they seem - not very tall fellows with small chest expansion........and how many came back with...

Jack & Jill went up the Hill - origins are reckoned to be Louis14th and Marie Antoinette, and begorra, she also has a link to my tree....................but dont we all join up sooner or later

"Bobby Shaftos gone to sea with silver buckles on his knee, when he comes back he'll marry me bonny Bobby Shafto" This gadabout with an eye for the ladies was a Durham MP B1732 and married one of my relatives; he squandered much of the money which "came with" his bride. He went t...

Very relevant to genealogy nowadays, I loved playing "Happy Familes" as a card game where 4 players had the cards divided up and then in turn asked someone for card you thought they might have to complete your family - this continued til you got a wrong request and the turn passed on until...

where does it end............. mainly peoples downright selfish inconsiderate behaviour - dog stuff on pavements, spitting on pavements, dumping rubbish, not saying thanks if you hold doors open, dropping litter, throwing up on the pavement, taking hours getting their money out to pay at a supermark...

Spending hours stirring a pudding mix, putting in the tiny old silver sixpences, then into crock basins with muslin tops tied with string - into a giant boiler and cooking for hours - wonderful old fashioned Christmas pud; then some weeks later plucking turkeys. As an adult I was a Special Police &q...

Heres hoping - genuine PARRY search (not Perry) some born West Bromwich with origins in Merionethshire and parents of Mary Clift who wed in 1820 Dud St Thos - TIA, Nemo

Any, please
Thanks

well done everyone thanks will post another pub separately to create a new link; most grateful Nemo if there was a smilie clapping hands and takeing a bow it would be here!