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Evening all,

Just got home about half an hour ago.
Had a blinder of a weekend :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Hope you've all had a brilliant weekend and it hasn't been too cold for you all. :-|
I left my heating on while I have been away for the weekend, so lovely and warm when I got back home :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Going to call it a night, hope to see you tomorrow :-D :-D

George :-)

Evening All.

I kinda knew that was Islington, Hazel. Noel Road, off City Road, where Joe Orton and his lover used to live. I know it well.

Hope everyone is well and warm, and those a bit poorly are getting better.

Gonna say nighty night here.

I must disappear up my tree for a little while.

Maddie

Hi all

The house is in Noel Road, the Angle Islington.We moved out in 1960,great nan had died in 1952. Nan and Grandad died 1964/65. I wouold love to see inside now. Looks like they have open the frontroom and back room we had as i can see the back windown now.

My dad came from St Pancras.Yes it has changed there.

Well Teri and Caitlin gone home now get my place back again.As they sleep on bed settee so live it out all weekend so with flat very small dont have alot of room to move about.

Twin are back at the hospital again have got the bronchiolitis back again. Just waiting to here from Duane to see if they are going to be staying in.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~to everyone

Hazelx

A very good afternoon to all the friendlies. :-D :-D
Apologies for going AWOL but its just been a really hectic week here.
Hope everyone is well and those who are missing are safe and sound.
Jean I'm so glad those rotten yobs got what they deserved.
Having a quick coffee before I go and walk the dog, its a beautiful day, bright and sunny but very cold.
<3 <3 <3

Cath xx

You could be right Rita.

I got on the wrong bus and it went all around the houses, picking up people to go shopping. A journey that usually took me 20 mins on the other bus, took me about an hour. We went around a roundabout and ended up at the same place so that he could pick up more people. lol

The place I live now used to house people who worked at the Piano factories, going up to Hampstead Heath. This part of london was all piano and violin factories. I have ancestors who worked at some of them, they lives only a couple of streets away from where I am now. So I am really walking in their footsteps.

Chalk Farm was really a farm only about 100 years ago. Now it is part of the rabble that is Camden Lock. When the Roundhouse empties at night, they go to the fast food joints in Chalk Farm.

How times change eh.

My grandfather worked in the Caledonian Market, so it is a small world.

:-)

Maddie Harlesden is no countryside not now it was when I was a child it was very open but there was always a factory estate there and a Hospital.I lived in Willesden which was very open as a child but not now.

The house my husband family was bombed out was Cromer street and I think they have a big wellknown shoe polish company there now / I seem to remember John taking me there we did a walk about he showed me the school he went to which I think ? was in Seven sisters Road but I could be wrong it was such a long time ago about 1948/9 His Grandmother went to live in a high block of flats in St Pancras . we use to go with her to the Caldonian market and there was another market nearby where his Nan use to buy little gifts for us for our bottom drawer. lol My father in law was a fireman during the war but was a black cab driver all his life. he kept his cab at Kings cross. he use to park in the middle of the road outside selfreges. he use to call out to me was I going home and take me before he drove back to the rank.
Brent Cross you do go through a part of Willesden but not the Harlesden side if your going by bus that is.
Willesden It was farm land when my father grew up there all farms I have a map in which you can see all the farms and a few buildings that was there then in 1910. when I was small we had lots of open spaces three big parks and fields to play in. so different now.

Rita

Hello Rita,

Yes I THINK I know where you mean. The area I am thinking of was bombed out during the War apparently. There are blocks of red brick flats standing there now.

St Pancras/Camden has changed so much. All those dinky little two up and two downs are all gone to make way for ugly highrise blocks.

The flat fronted houses are being gentrified too. Most of the people who lived in the area all their lives, were given the opportunity to move out to the New Towns in Essex. Newcomers with dosh have moved into the old Georgian houses, and they are refurbishing them. They do look nice now, but it is a shame that the original people have moved out.

I must say I do not know Harlesden at all. It is not an area I think I have ever visited. I think I got on a bus once to go the Brent Cross and we went through part of it. It looks quite countryfied if it is where I think it is.

Sun quite bright now and warm. Have opened the windows to let a bit of fresh air in. Will close them again if it gets too cold.

:-)

Maddie
there were a number of roads the family lived from time to time.born in and around there. my husband Great Great Grandfather was born in Islington and they lived in 19 Wood Street St Pancras.
My husband Grandfather lived in Cromer Street St Pancras. where my husband was born. they lived with their Grandfather and his wife.it was there they were bombed out so I understood they were moved by the council to diofferent places then moved to Harlesden in Middlesex.
My husband Grandmother on his mothers side lived in St Pancras I cannot recall the address but I went there a few times that was a four story house.and the family off-spring married and moved into the house.
They also lived in Graves end Road.

Rita

Morning, very cold here but bright and sunny.

Where is that house Hazel? Where did your husband live Rita? I live in what WAS St Pancras, it is now Camden. I have lived in and around here most of my life so would know where you are talking about.

Your party sounds lovely Mo. Nothing better than watching the wonderment on a childs face when the cake with candles comes out.

My cake now has a big church candle shoved through the middle of it. lol

No work today, so will lollop around all day doing sweet fanny adams. [I wish]

See you later.
:-)

Morninjg all
Hazel I kept looking at that house and thinking how it was like the one my husband grew up in in St Pancras in Lodon they had a house like that where his grand parents lived on the ground floor then he had his Aunty with her children also my husbands family there were 8 children in that and above them was another family member with children. They were bombed out during the war. so the house no longer stands but I have seen photos of it. he took me to see where it had stood once when we started going out together.

Morning Mo and Pauline. still no Stephen he must have deserted us.

It is frosty this morning but not as bad as it was yesterday. I noticed it was lighter this morning and it didnt get dark as quickly last night as it has been is that a good sign ?

take care.

Hi all

Pauline the house is where my mum,her brothers and sister,as well as me and my 7 brothers and 2 sister were born. Nan lived down stairs great gran up top and we had 2 rooms in the middle. Its where i went on mums birthday on the 9th, There is a cannal that runs out the back.

Mo i didnt get to talk i didnt feel up to it but it was about 16 woman who was admitted to middlesex lunatic asylum between 1877 and 1889.

Got Teri and Caitlin here for the weekend. If i feel up to it we are going to a indoor boot sale in the morning.

~~~~~~~~~~to everyone

Hazelx

Mo sounds like you enjoyed your granddaughters birthday party it is lovely when they are one and you see their little faces staring at the birthday candle (Candles )

well cannot say to much about your sons furtiure mother in law. but we get all sorts I get on well with my son in Law and daughter in laws but then I have known them a long time
What annoys me when you hear the mother in law running the house telling the son or daughters wife or husband what to do.

I managed to do a few jobs this morning but this afternoon I didn't do an awful lot. it has been a funny old day. I kept thinking it was sunday not satiuday this evening I checked the TV times to see what time Dancing on Ice was due on. to see it wasnt.

still I looked at a couple of old films on TV. but the had flashes going across the picture from time to time and sometimes the speaking was hard to hear. thats because the films were very old.

Yvonne I brought a new bulb but it suppose to last for five years it cost £7 if it lasts I will be pleased as when they go I have to try and get someon to put the new bulb in for me.

Pat sorry you have not been well hope your over it now. your have to wrap up well if your off to church tomorrow the forcaste was extra cold

Hello everyone.
Just back from our grandaughters first birthday party. Whew, just got to get my head back to normal now, after all that excitement.

It took ages to clear the frost from the car this morning, only to be told by Roly that I only needed to put the heated windscreen on, and it would have cleared itself. Der stupid me.

Yvonne, we are on virgin broadband and phone, but it still takes ages to load. Just my luck I suppose, that my laptop is slow, it does need to go in for a service, but I just can't face not having it for a few days.

Bye for now, going to have a nice cup of tea.

Hi everyone,
I haven't been around because I had a cold on Wednesday and Thursday :-P
I'm better now though :-)
I've just met the couple who sat in front of me on the coach when I went to Scotland. It is certainly colder but at least it's dry. :-D

Afternoon all

Lovely blue sky and sunny but a bit on the chilly side, I had to scrape ice off the car this morning.

Jean pleased those yobs got sent down, if I had been the judge they would have got longer.

Rita we've had to repkace those new bulbs a couple of times, they haven't exploded just stopped working, they are supposed to last longer than the ordinary bulbs and they are more expensive to buy.

We are thinking of changing our broadband to Virgin, at the moment we're with BT but keep going over our download limit (option 1) and it's very slow, our son uses the internet alot. Probably change our TV and phone to Virgin too.

<3

Pauline it is still frosty here the ground and cars are white.
I had a late shower this morning and was shivering afterwards because it had got cold the heating went off at 9.30
did you see the thread on chat about exploding energy light bulbs ? there is a website about them on the thread and I have been reading that as well. makes you wonder why we have all this trouble getting ordinary light bulbs and told to use these energy ones yet they explode.

strange how Stephen isnt on the thread I am getting worried about him now ? I hope he is alright.?

I am going to sort something out for my dinner. I have to push myself to eat as I have so much on my mind

I had a lovely card from Dutch this morning., her family are going through it as well.

have a good day.

Morning all.

Yes, Rita, it's white with frost here as well and soooooo cold.

I'm pleased the doctor explained a few things to you, it makes you feel better when you know what's going on.

Mo, I wasn't going to do any knitting, I was just going to take the orders and send them to you and Linda to knit........... it's for that email I sent you with the knitted 'undergarments'. :-) :-) :-)

Wrap up warm George................... it's cold out there. :-D



Edit: Forgot to ask Maddie if her 'baby boy' is having a party for his birthday. :-D :-D

Morning George I was just going to log off and saw you on the thread.
hopoe you have a good day whereever you are going. take care while out.

Rita

Morning all,

I am up and out early today, so, wont be about this weekend :-D :-D :-D :-D

Hope everyone will have a brilliant weekend even though its a little chilly today. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
A bit foggy this morning so take care if your driving :-)

George :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Morning to all whereever you are. I expect like me you have woken to find the ground white with frost. and bitterly cold. when you think of it this time last year we had snow and ice. so I supopose we must not complain.

I wonder what has happened to Stephen. he could not be sailing in this weather.? It is times like this I wish I was somewhere warm for a week.
yesterday I noticed I had a white gerium coming up in the front garden and was amazed to see this I bet the frost will have got to it this morning.

nothing planned for the weekend not going out for a meal or seeing anyone. so might do a bit of housework like clearing out some more drawers.

as I am here on my own and no one has been on since last night I hope you have not alol emigrated. ?

Rita.