9 Derwent as it was then

Can you identify these??

Hi a sort of little game: can you identify the objects circled on this picture? I wondered whether the sort of box might be the same (or one...

 October 2 2014
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Beware of Golliwogs!

Hi, do some of you still have some of these??? I'm sure we used to have a number of them, but what has become of them, no idea! And I also have...

 September 18 2014
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Cousin anecdotes

Our family (by today's standards at least) being a rather large one - the four Hughes girls have all had many girlees and boyees - I certainly...

 September 5 2014
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Heating at DR

Hi, during a conversation with Mummy recently, we spoke about the heating which used to be set up at 9DR. She told me that originally there didn't...

 August 27 2014
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Palmers Green tales

I've stumbled on this series of talks of people being interviewed about their youth in Palmers Green (check the website Palmers Green tales and...

 July 18 2014
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Aldermans Hill

Funny how names contain our past, isn't it? This name Aldermans Hill never meant anything for me than: the main street next to Derwent Road,...

 July 12 2014
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Washing at 9DR

Time for a fun post: Washing! At 9DR, like in all other houses of the world, there was a big amount of washing going about. The Aunties washed......

 July 3 2014
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The English abroad

I have only got a few pictures of the English family abroad, and most of them naturally refer to Mum's trip when she left for France in the 1950's....

 June 19 2014
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Trafalgar square in 1962

Looking at some pictures which had been posted here and there, I noticed that a series had been shot in 1962 at Trafalgar square: Mum Dad Hélène...

 June 19 2014
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Suitcases bags and boxes

Recently Noël sent me some pictures of those big suitcases which used to belong to Auntie Olive and our Mum, so I thought I would post or re-post...

 May 29 2014
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