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By Paul McNeil Posted on February 11, 2017December 24, 2022

Part 1: Finding the “Lost Temple” for an Old Mate


Tall Stories I have known Les since we started our first job together at the Greater London Council’s Electronic Maintenance Section, he was sixteen and I was eighteen.  Electronics sounded like … Continue reading Part 1: Finding the “Lost Temple” for an Old Mate

Categories: genealogyTags: bedfordshire regiment, Camberwell, Camplin, Camplin Road, Camplin St, Camplin Street, Clerkenwell, Clerkenwell Green, Clock Face Painter, Cockney, deptford, Domestic servant, Erskine, Erskine Family, Erskine Family History, Erskine Family Tree, Les Temple, London Regiment, Millwall, Schwaben Redoubt, Temple, Thiepval, Waller, wandsworth, Wandsworth Prison, Watch Face Painter, WestHam, Working Class
By Paul McNeil Posted on February 28, 2015December 24, 2022

Danny Dyer’s Family Tree Part 2: Watermen and Lightermen


“Redknap’s men would wend their way through the Poplar marshes, and would need more than a pint of Ale when they arrived at the Inn on Dolphin Lane, they would … Continue reading Danny Dyer’s Family Tree Part 2: Watermen and Lightermen

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