9 Derwent as it was then

the photos of the animal photo contest

Here are the full photos of the plastic animals you had to guess: 1- The kangaroo 2- The bison 3- The mammoth 4- the tiger 5- the crocodile 6-...

 May 26 2014
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A game about plastic animals

Here is a game for the little ones and the former little ones: the idea is to try and find which plastic animal that was at 9DR corresponds to...

 May 16 2014
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Is Palmers Green typically British?

This is the question you might ask if you have in mind what Auntie Cath did when she took photos of PG in order to show French pupils in her...

 May 14 2014
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Sleeping at 9DR

When we stayed at 9DR, we (here we refers to my brothers and myself, I'll come to other people soon) would normally sleep in the top Back-room,...

 May 11 2014
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Family trees

Some time ago I had started putting together online all the information which I had collected about the various ancestors of our family, French...

 April 23 2014
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Transportation

Hello everybody! We've just started our Easter holidays! So as it's the hols, a fun post on transportation. You'll see why I say it's going to...

 April 21 2014
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Cats!

I don't know how long or how many cats there have been at 9 & 7 DR over the years. The picture above shows a 1960 pic with one: does somebody...

 April 19 2014
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The two gardens

I hesitated when writing the two gardens in the title for this post, because perhaps one should say there was really one big garden, separated...

 April 10 2014
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London outings

(Mme Tussaud's French touch!) It was mainly Grandma who was responsible for outings, while we stayed at 9DR. When we were smaller, she came with...

 April 4 2014
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Games at 9DR

At 9 Derwent Road we played a lot, naturally because we were on holidays. I have already alluded to some games ( rounders , especially, and plastic...

 March 30 2014
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