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joy .........Must just say my granny was a church goer and proooooooud then I did my family tree .....she would turn in her grave if she knew what I know now .....BUT it dont bother me ....

Joy your so lucky to have these letters, when my dad died 23 years ago my mum got rid of everything. She does not believe in keeping letters or photos. So I have only got a couple of photos of my dad, and a few of me as a child. So read your mum and dads letters and know in your heart of hearts that they really loved one another.
lynn

wendy i dont think the dress will fit

my mum was only 4 ft 10and i am5 ft 6

though i did try it on when i was 15 after her death

OOOH The Suspence

But I agree with Linda, it is nice to have the information.

Boro ex pat

Oh Joy you are so lucky in having all these things from your parents, my mum and her family was all fostered or adopted as young children, all i have is one picture of my granddad and one picture of my grandma and one of my great grandad,

THANK YOU EVERYBODY XX

blimey
how can anyone keep their noses out omg
i would be straight in there lol
Rosex
ps Joy i wish i had some of what you have ;O)

I had a similar problem - but as it was letters between my grandparents, it was a generation removed!!
Not only have I read them, I spent 2 years typing them up! How many different ways could my grandad spell Wednesday!!! LOL
They were very interesting reading, Grandad contacted Gran when his wife (who had been is service with gran a few years before) died.
Within 3 weeks they were seeing each other!!
Gran was 20, grandad 27, and my great grandparents didn't want them to get married - part of the reason may have been that great grandma was expecting her 10th child!
Gran used to visit grandad in his lodgings quite often. the owners of the house were often away - I've no idea what they did, but possibly worked on the cruisers, and this meant gran & grandad were often alone.............
Gran had at least 3 'worrying times' whilst they were courting!
After a while, grandad got a job as a merchant seaman, as it was more money than being a docker, and they saved up (whilst waiting for gran to turn 21) to get married, which they did the moment he got off the ship!!
The letters cover the period 1923 - 1924 and then the war years when gran was evacuated and grandad stayed in Southampton.
The last few are when grandad was in hospital, 1955/56, where he died of kidney failure aged 59.
My mum has seen the transcribed copies - possibly slightly less shocking than seeing them in her parents handwriting!

maggie

aw maggie they sound great
cant wait for mam to read them
so iknow if i can too lol

im really looking forward to see what the old folk got up to

If people had destroyed all correspondence, think how little we would know of times past. It is this that brings the past to life.

Stray - not much different what we got up to!!!
Cinema/Music hall/pub/snogging etc - though I was too young for the music Hall! LOL
Gran has written a wonderful argument she had with her mum, she ends 'She called me everything but a Christian!'
There are also a couple of times when she's obvously been to the pub and describes how she falls across the hall table (who left thet there?) - and tries desperately to pretend she's sober!
Grandad, who aso liked a pint or 6 describes how he 'just happened' to end up in the pub through no fault of his own' - 3 pages worth! Other times he reassures her that, though he was in the pub - he only bought a pint - he only got drunk because everyone else bought the rest for him!

AW MAGGIE

I HOPE MY LETTERS ARE LIKE YOURS

aw maggie how nice i love stories from the past
xxx

your never know UNLESS you read them

Joy
read them.

Mum and dad have loads of letters between my nan and grampy which now Nan has gone they will read up til now they have sat in their house as didnt feel right as she was still alive.

Sister read two of nans poems at the funeral today which Nan wrote after Grampy died, they were lovely and wen sister sends me copies will put them on here. She also wrote one on grandchildren which dad is going to send me whcih I think will probably have me in tears.


d xx
How you have resisted for all this time I dont know

Maggie, they sound wonderful. Joy, I look forward to you sharing some of what they contain (sentiments if the details are too personal/risque).

It is easy to see our parents or grandparents, but often we forget to see them as the 'people' and the rest of the people who knew them. I can be quite objective about my nanna, I loved her dearly but I knew she could be stern and very proper. Now though, I look back and think 'my god she had a poor eye for the men'. She's also one of them prudish types that when you take a closer look was already 'in the way' when she got married.

belive me if id known they were there she wouldnt have resisted i can tell yas

im soooooooooo excited

Soooo????
Have they been read yet?
Whats the outcome - I am dying to know lol

Tina xx

Maggie that was such a lovely story about your grandparents.
Brings to the minds of the young, that even their ancestors fell in love, and missed each other, and did all the things that the young think they invented! ;-0)

Did you cry when you read them? I almost did when i read your message about them.

Joy... get in there girl and tell me how much love your mum and dad had for each other.... go on, read the letters. ;-0)
Deanna X

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