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the wireless on 3rd September 1939 to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announce that Adolf Hitler had not withdrawn his troops from Poland and so he declared that ‘this country is at war with Germany’.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

Presents that I remember from childhood include ones made by my dad – a wooden doll’s house, ironing board, and metal slide. Other presents were farm animals from Precious’s’ toy shop down Petergate, York, a bike, a blue rabbit, a …

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My great uncle Derrick Gosley’s family was from the West Cottingwith/Holme on Spalding Moor area. Many of his relatives were in the pub trade. The Gosleys married into the Hairsine family. Charles William Hairsine was publican at the Anchor Inn, …

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One of Terry’s chairmen was Noel Goddard Terry. He was badly wounded in the First World War (5th West Yorkshire Regiment) but survived. He had a house built in 1927 near the racecourse, called Goddards. It is now owned by …

Random food facts, York Read more »