Category: 50 YEARS AGO
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Wednesday 18 April 1973
I began making a four-wheeled run-about trolly. Very cold wind. Roger came home from Rouen, Notes Grandad was very practical. For details of things he made, see Chapter 109. Roger refers to me. I had been to Rouen on a school trip, see Chapter 103.
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Tuesday 17 April 1973
E & I put the frame back in the caravan, I put hard board instead of glass in the frame. Elizabeth came for dinner, Sheila cut both lawns. Alan came with Sheila but went back with her. Notes E refers to my grandmother Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. The caravan was at Drayton Methodist Church –…
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Monday 16 April 1973
Tom & Amy went home. Ethel & I went for the frame of the broken pane in the caravan at DMC. Notes Tom and Amy refers to grandma and grandad’s friends Tom and Amy Wilson who had been visiting from Mansfield, see Chapter 106. Ethel refers to my grandmother Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. DMC refers…
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Sunday 15 April 1973
Ethel & Amy went twice to DMC. S R A & E came for tea. Patricia & Roger were holidaying in France. Notes Ethel refers to my grandmother Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. Amy refers to Amy Wilson, grandma and grandad’s friend who was visiting with her husband Tom from Mansfield – see Chapter 106. DMC…
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Saturday 14 April 1973
After dinner T A & E went to Notes T and A refers to Tom and Amy Wilson, grandma and grandad’s friends who were visiting from Mansfield – see Chapter 106. E refers to my grandmother Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. Presumably, grandad intended to record later where they had gone but did not.
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Friday 13 April 1973
I worked a little in the garden. Tom, Amy & Ethel went to Horning. Notes Tom and Amy refers to Tom and Amy Wilson, grandma and grandad’s friends who were visiting from Mansfield – see Chapter 106.
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Wednesday 11 April 1973
Roger went to Rouen (France) with his school mates by boat and train. Notes Roger refers to me and this refers to a school trip I went on to Rouen when I was at Hewett School – see Chapter 103. Rouen was, and is, twinned with Norwich.
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Tuesday 10 April 1973
In the afternoon we (T A E & I) went to Arthur’s. Weather very cold. Big air crash at Basle (Switzerland) from Bristol. People killed 101 approx later 108. Notes T A E & I refers to Tom and Amy Wilson (grandma and grandad’s friends), Ethel Parkin (my grandmother) and Gordon Parkin, my grandfather. Arthur…
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Monday 9 April 1973
Ethel & Amy went to Hospital canteen at Norwich. Tom took them. Patricia went with some girls from her school to Lille in France (by air Notes Ethel refers to Ethel May Cecilia Parkin, my grandmother. Amy refers to Amy Wilson, grandma’s friend who was visiting them from Mansfield with her husband Tom. Grandma used…