No, we are not in China.....

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The Mystery of Petchey's Bay - Solved

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Petchey.mht

What a Place for a Holiday Home!

22 Fortescue Road
And what about this for a beach toy! On Preston Sands wide unrestricted beach, even at low tide what fun you can have surfing all year round.

Middle Earth? Well middle England at least!

Mum and I enjoyed a most relaxing week in middle england, on the borders of three shire counties, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire. We actually campled at Measham House Farm, a 600 acre working farm, mostly arable, with a wonderful, grand, old farm house. They do bread and breakfast and offer breakfast to the campers too which we so enjoyed in their wonderful dining room, furnished with antiques, beautiful large, oval table that everyone sat round together. Silver, bone handled, Shefffield cutlery and Wedgewood crocks adorned the table. Food was mostly home produced, ie the pork sausages, bacon and soft fruit. Damsons were amazing with some muesli and plum jam, well, we managed to get Di, the farmers wife, to actually part with a pot, which I may just hide away from any children!

Rainbow

A perfect rainbow this friday morning - can you guess or work out the sequence of events. This morning, time 7.15 am.

Your Ancesters were Miners of Durham

THORNLEY COLLIERY, DURHAM

This week I have discovered that we have ancesters who were miners in Durham and Yorkshire.

My mum, Hazel Kirk was the daughter of John Stanley Kirk (b1896) who was the son of John Albert Kirk (b1866). He was brought up by Charles and Elizabeth Bates who for a while lived in Leeds where Charles was a miner. Elizabeth Bates and her first husband Thomas Kirk both came from Durham and in particular from the small mining community known as Thornley Colliery. There appears to be a few Thomas and Elizabeth Kirks living in and around that area in !861 before Thomas died so I am still working out further ancestry. But Thomas died in his late 20s or early 30s, more than likely due to his work as a miner although I have been unable to prove this. Interestingly there was one Thomas Kirk who died around that time in County Durham whose death was not registered until 1911, which really stirs the immagination. In an explosion underground were bodies brought back up? It may be too dangerous. Did they keep accurate records of who died?

Well, just a morsel to whet your appetites. MORE TO FOLLOW. WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

What has the full attention of 6 grandchildren...

...first thing on a Monday morning with only the GRANDAD to supervise the throng???

Why the wonderful, hero of every parent....MR TUMBLE!!