The idea of the Blog developed while talking to Joan Duncan and reading her detailed account of living in London ...

I was one of 7 children and we lived with our Dad, Mom and Grandmother. My Dad was a very ...

I was born in October 1918. My mother lived in Exeter, Devon and I was 2 and a half lb ...

The second part of June Rodd's story on travels When things had settled down and I had bought a flat ...

In a two part story, June recollects her childhood, her adulthood and the adventures of travel It was Sunday morning ...

I joined the British Navy at the age of 17 in 1944. I had lived with my parents in Markyate, ...

I had always been struck by the large portrait of a man, that hung over my grandmother’s sitting room. I ...

My husband Neil C. Duncan’s maternal grandfather was Arthur Ramdin. Neil put together a brief biography of Arthur who clearly ...

My mother, Katrina was barely 10 when she was orphaned, her mother predeceasing her father by a few months. Born ...

  My father Richard Durell married Edmée Gruchy in Jersey on 21 December in 1934.    After marriage, Richard accepted ...