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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 December 23, 2014December 23, 2024

Timothy Spall’s Christmas Family Tree


Thomas, Sarah and their children were forced into the workhouse, and indeed two sons, Joseph and William were born there.

Categories: Celebrity, genealogyTags: Auf Wiedersehen Pet, battersea, chimney sweep, christmas, gypsies, gypsy, rafe spall, shoreditch, Spall, spitalfields, sweep, Timothy Spall, tinker, tinman, wandsworth

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