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the wireless on 3rd September 1939 to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announce that Adolf Hitler had not withdrawn his troops from Poland and so he declared that ‘this country is at war with Germany’.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

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 …

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My nanna, Millie Cooper, née Neale, had a sister called Betty. There was ten years between their births as the First World War had intervened. Betty married Derrick Wilfred Gosley on the 15th September 1945 at Holy Trinity, Heworth, York. …

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A lot of my dad’s side of the family worked for the railway. I stumbled upon a useful resource when I was looking for one of mum’s ancestors. I was looking for George Aspinall who was assistant station master at …

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Ten Pound Poms is the term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe British citizens who emigrated to those countries after the Second World War. The Government of Australia initiated the ‘Assisted Passage Migration Scheme’ in 1945. People only had to pay £10 and the government paid the …

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