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Could go back in a time machine to any time in history, where would you go and why?


Caz xxxxx

Would I have all the vaccinations first?

Could they see me?

Would I be travelling with David Tennant?

For me it would be the time of Elizabeth the first but i would be rich lol and live in a beautiful mansion house and have a lovely garden laid out in the way tudor style, and i would be involved in all the court intrigue!!


Caz xxx

1860's I would like to see how my lot really lived and where.

Gill

Too many to mention Caz.

Most would include handing the parents some form of contraception, that would knock out a few people who have done the world no favours..

Sue xx

Yes they can see you Lesley lol,


errrr David Tennant can come, cos hes gorgeous!!


Caz xxx

I agree Skwirrel, I'd go to the places my ancestors lived. I'd go to see the Scottish ones I think.

Hi Sqwirrel and Sue,


Sue that sounds a very sensible idea, SK, is that a part of your line you are stuck on or one you are fascinated with?


Caz xx

The Scottish accent may come in useful too lol

Thanks Caz.

For our ancestors id go to the mid 1800s to Where i live now, Chesham, Bucks , Workington and the Isle of Man,


Caz xx

I'd go to the 1880s the the Victorian London tenement block to see how my ancestors lived there.

Bet that was tough for them Benjamin,


Caz xx

hello caz

I am fascinated by that era it was before grandparents - and all my great grandparents were secretive yet they all lived near one another lol. I just would like to see them grow up and whack them for the things I know they are going to do.

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Gill

for me Caz, it's probably both, I'd go to the end of my main line in the late 1700s and just see how they lived and see if they could tell me more about their family.

It's hard to choose just one line and just one time. There are probably more mysteries in that line (& others) that i would like to unravel but I'd just like to see the beauty of the place where they lived and see if it would be a life that I would choose myself.

A few weeks ago I'd have said Victorian or Edwardian London........however just lately I have become very interested in all things Iron age so I think I'd nip back there to see for myself how things were. No good for family history I know but very good for my curiousity lol xx

Hi Cumbrian Caz

Yes it was tough for them. They lived in the building from 1882 to 1889.

Whilst there, one of the daughters recieved £3 in stolen money and was taken to court, the mum died a tragic infectious illness which killed her in 1886 and the father was a poor soap boiler and shoeblack, also reliant on poor relief. The Charles Booth Poverty Map of 1889 marks the area as a Poor area. It was in Holborn.

deffo ww1, just to see my grt. grandad, i was born on his birthday, but he'd passed away just before i was born............ he was in the war on the horses that pulled the big guns......... and he won the victory medal for digging the horses out of the mud........ my oh makes me laugh, says sure he wasnt hiddin under them................ lol so i would go back to take pics to prove what he did....
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I think I'd end up doing a tour to numerous places. I remember finding these distant ancestors of mine on the census in 1901 - dad is 27, mum is 31 and they have two little girls, one aged 2 and a half and one aged 2 months, and the family - according to the census - was living in a two room house in Stamford. I wonder how they coped living like that (or maybe they were happy and it was bigger than it sounds?) and what their house looked like.

I think I would quite like to be in the Regency period - wigs had gone out of fashion and enormous crinolines etc were not yet popular so surely it would be easier to get around without worrying your hair would fall off or your dress would get stuck if you walked through a narrow door. It would also be much easier in an empire line dress to pick something up off the floor if you dropped it.

I also do like the idea of men courting women - I keep thinking of, in Pride and Prejudice, the way that Mr. Bingley asking Jane for two separate dances at one ball equalled serious interest. I think nowadays, with women's lib and equality and all the Bridget Jones-style dating theories, nobody really knows where they are and there are no formal boundaries about social behaviour any more. (I had a really irritating acquaintance at uni who was always pestering me to go to things and places I didn't want to go - the idea of "cutting" someone by returning their call with a card or not enquiring if they were at home or whatever other polite, coded way people used to deal with irritating people sounds good to me).