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Since posting about these family photos, I have now done some more research, using the book Dating by Design 1840-1915 by Stephen Gill.  My 3x great aunt, Ann Neale (born York 1845) married James Giles and later George Wardle (I …

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People gathered around the wireless on 3rd September 1939 to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announce that Adolf Hitler had not withdrawn his troops from Poland and so he declared that ‘this country is at war with Germany’. The first …

Second World War in York Read more »