Category: Cambourne Memories
Category: Cambourne Memories
![C’est La Vie! (This is Life)](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Joanpic-1.jpg?media=1670086848)
C’est La Vie! (This is Life)
The idea of the Blog developed while talking to Joan Duncan and reading her detailed account of living in London ...
![Jason and our Home of Love](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jean-252C-2BJason-2Band-2BBen-267x300.jpeg?media=1670086848)
Jason and our Home of Love
I was one of 7 children and we lived with our Dad, Mom and Grandmother. My Dad was a very ...
![Always in the Mood for Dance: My life with Bill](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/With-2Bboys-2Bgrown-2Bup.-2BDress-2Bmade-2Bby-2Bme-169x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
Always in the Mood for Dance: My life with Bill
I was born in October 1918. My mother lived in Exeter, Devon and I was 2 and a half lb ...
![My Flights of Fancy- Travels to the Orient](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/kuta-sunset-bali-300x225.jpg?media=1670086848)
My Flights of Fancy- Travels to the Orient
The second part of June Rodd's story on travels When things had settled down and I had bought a flat ...
![On the Wings of Dreams – My years of growing up](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Leith-I.jpg?media=1670086848)
On the Wings of Dreams – My years of growing up
In a two part story, June recollects her childhood, her adulthood and the adventures of travel It was Sunday morning ...
![Adventures of An Able Seaman](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Albert-Rodd.jpg?media=1670086848)
Adventures of An Able Seaman
I joined the British Navy at the age of 17 in 1944. I had lived with my parents in Markyate, ...
![My Jewish Legacy](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YoungPaulwhusband.jpg?media=1670086848)
My Jewish Legacy
I had always been struck by the large portrait of a man, that hung over my grandmother’s sitting room. I ...
![The Maharaja's English Connection](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Maharajas-English-Connection.jpg?media=1670086848)
The Maharaja’s English Connection
My husband Neil C. Duncan’s maternal grandfather was Arthur Ramdin. Neil put together a brief biography of Arthur who clearly ...
![Katrina: A Latvian Tale](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Vilma1-182x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
Katrina: A Latvian Tale
My mother, Katrina was barely 10 when she was orphaned, her mother predeceasing her father by a few months. Born ...
![From Jersey, Channel Islands, to the African Continent](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Drum-Rock-Hotel-PHOTO-300x188.jpg?media=1670086848)
From Jersey, Channel Islands, to the African Continent
My father Richard Durell married Edmée Gruchy in Jersey on 21 December in 1934. After marriage, Richard accepted a ...