Family

Category: Family

  • Holidays with Family

    We did not really have holidays but we had days out. We would walk over to visit Grandad in Hutton Henry or walk to Crimdon on a Bank Holiday, or to the local beaches in Horden /Easington. We walked a lot because we were a family of bad travellers on the bus. We did when […]

  • Sisters

    I only have one sister…..and she only has one sister too. There are 7 years between us. We are both very different people….but she is still special to me. We shared a bedroom….we shared a bed!. The small bedroom we shared was not big enough for two beds so we had what I think was […]

  • My Wedding Day

    Hubby and I first met when I was 18 and he was 26. Our first date was going to the cinema to see “The Sound of Music”. The date was a bit of a disaster and I cannot eat Neapolitan ice cream to this day. We hardly spoke to each other the whole evening and […]

  • Uncle Fred’s Telly

    My dad was no 10 of 11 children and Uncle Fred was his youngest brother…the last child to be born. My dad was only two when his own dad died so my Grandma Brown was left with all those children to bring up. I don’t know anything about their childhood but I remember Uncle Fred […]

  • My Grandad

    I adored my grandad. I was the oldest of I think 11 grandchildren. I miss him to this day. He and nana lived in what used to be the servants quarters….in a place called Spencer’s Buildings in a hamlet called Hutton Henry in County  Durham. He played football for the village team. He used to […]

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