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  • Story: Threshing Days

    by Phyllis Cumberledge
    …prepare their work then joined the family for breakfast in the kitchen. Porridge if they wanted it, then bacon, eggs, if near pig killing day, they had black pudding  and sausage too. Threshing…

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  • Story: The Goodnight Poem

    by Ali Finlayson
    Scotland and she was the youngest in a family of nine. Hers was a long and very full life - one full of hard work.  In the space of her eighty-eight years she very rarely complained but we all…

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  • Story: Our Debt to the Merchant Navy

    by Keith Atkinson
    …of years. In 1979 with my young family growing up too fast, I decided to become a land lover and became involved in running marine engineering companies and accepting senior managerial appointments…

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  • Speaker Biographies

    #39;s Your Story? Discovering Family History' a project encouraging family historians to contribute and share their stories and experiences on a community website and in a…

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  • Speaker Biographies

    #39;s Your Story? Discovering Family History' a project encouraging family historians to contribute and share their stories and experiences on a community website and in a…

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  • Story: The Amateur Cup Final

    by Keith Belton
    …some people supported Crook. My own family was divided, father and sons, uncles and nephews, a throng of cousins across the great divide. Myself and cousin Ronnie were fanatical about Bishop, whilst…

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  • Story: Two Visits to Wembley

    by John Phelan
    …years old. Here is a photograph of my family and next door neighbours pictured outside Wembley Stadium. In the back row is my dad, next to him is my mam, and then my cousin Neil. In the middle row is…

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