Category: Cambourne Memories

Category: Cambourne Memories

C’est La Vie! (This is Life)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...