General Chat

WAW!! Guys and galls lovely to see so much nostalgia, pride and heart lived feelings .. Yes I am canal mad and as much as I love hearing of your homes accross the pond and down under I love this green and plesant land .. Strabane and Portrush in Ireland will always hold special part in my heart as will Kilmarnock and Ayr in Scotland .... The vale of Lllangollen and the Rhondda valleys ..... and the Pembrokeshire coast .. Family from Somerset and Devon area ancestraly speeking so love Cheddar and Bude is nice ..... The Cornish coast is magical especialy round Falmouth ...... Have hopes of camping up in Shropshire which must be close to my fav county .. Wem Whichurch and Shrewsbury .... but to choose one place Ellesmere in the Shropshire lakes would be my dream home ...... on the canal of course :) <3 <3 <3

Shetland Isles. Just beautiful. My paternal paternal side come from the island of Whalsay. I've not been back there since 1987 but Shetland is beautiful.

Dorset. Swanage to be exact. I've been in love with it ever since Rob and the kids and I had our first proper family holiday. We have a room that overlooks Swanage Bay. It's perfect. Swanage has its own micro-climate which means even if it's pouring at Tyneham a few miles away it's lovely on the beach.

I'll be there later in the year. It is our escape for eight whole days and up until I stopped being a carer to the parents late in 09, if I hadn't got those eight days a year to look forward to and get a break I would have gone mad. When my brain won't stop so I can go to sleep, I imagine doing the drive down from reversing off the drive and I'm often asleep before we hit the motorway. Bliss.

:-D

I have lots of favorite places, Chapel Point in Lincolnshire is one of my favorite beeches, its so beautiful.
Snettisham beach where I have my holiday home, it has vast lakes one after the other and the beach is a RSPB reserve.
I like Southwold Harbour where they sell fish and chips with the fish straight from the fishing boats.
I like Fakenham market day on a thursday, they have one of the largest antique markets aswell as a produce and general market.
And I love Frinton on sea, the greenbelt is a great walk especially when you have a dog.

We have so many wonderful places and great treasures in our green and pleasant land that it's hard to single any one place out.


The Lakes are fantastic, but it's probably the Yorkshire Dales for me......Skipton, Grassington etc. I swear the air changes as we drive through the border of Lancashire/Yorkshire :-D

I love the open views, the isolated farms dotted about, the sheep trails, the stone walls and the history. The place names are so interesting too....ie Yockenthwaite, where I fell in the river and our friends took a photograph of me rather than fishing me out! Many happy family holidays have been spent exploring that great county.


However, my young holidays were spent with family in High Wycombe in Bucks and the countryside there is beautiful. The row of houses where my grandparents lived were pulled down c1986 and the remains of some bodies were found. It was discovered that the houses has been built on the site of a cemetary of a medieval Leper Hospital!


We also spent time with my other grandparents in Rochester, Kent - the Garden of England. Fresh shrimps, Jasper's cafe, the cathedral. So many lovely places to explore round and about there.



Scotland and Wales are stunningly magnificent...............


..................it just never ends and we can be spoilt for choice.



Is your appetite whetted yet Janey? ;-)


Cx

My G.grandmother came from Looe.My G.G.G grandfather is buried in St Annes Church Hessenford,just near Looe.Went there 4 years ago and searched the graveyard,but it was all on a hillside and the gravestones were really weathered so couldn't find it.When walking up the path to the church I had the feeling of walking in their footsteps.
My gran used to tell a story about her gran during the Napoleonic wars.
The army in their red coats were away and the French fleet was seen in the distance,so the women put on their red shawls and sat on the shore to stop them coming in and thinking that the army was waiting to fire.
It could be true!!

"My" bit of Cornwall is a popular place!


edit -- and thanks to Jane for offer by PM to have a friend scout out the churchyard for me!

lol Marilyn I am 53 so I was at Looe secondary for a couple of years ( 13-15) :-)

I know St Stephens Church.I worked as a Nanny just outside of Saltash.The Family had Ince Castle.I have just googled Ince!.Goodness it brings back memories .It was beautiful.I remember going to Ballroom Dancing lessons with the Gay Gardener from Ince lol ;-)

Ah, Marilyn, have I got rellies buried there!

The Bonds of Erth -- motto: Orbis non sufficit -- The World is not Enough!

I'm 007's cousin, doncha know. ;)

I have a digital copy of a book from several decades ago detailing the history (uh, "history") of the Bonds of Erth, from a distinctly USAmerican perspective.

But there are also parish records going back to the beginning of record-keeping, the mid-1500s, that I can trace mine back through; I think a Bond was the first registration in the parish. I haven't done a very good job of recording it all myself as yet, knowing it's all there when I want it.

Supposedly, according to that book, there is a floor stone in the St S by S parish church bearing that motto and the wingèd Pegasus that goes with it. I gather this is a bit more myth than fact. But I'd love to know for sure! Jacob Bond 1782 died sometime 1823-1837 (it seems); wife Sarah (Sibly, family of St Cleer) died in 1860. Basically, any old Bond in St S by S is mine, one way or another. ;) I'd love to know how far back gravestones can be identified. You're a doll!

Of course, if anybody could ever find a marriage for my grx2 grmother Bond, I'd fall at their feet ...

But I won't hijack the thread!

Rose......early 50's......junior.!

Left at the age of 7yrs for Plymouth but left my Grandparents in Looe.

Not sure who's the youngest :D :D :D :D :D.... Now LOL

Marilyn, I lived in Looe for a couple of years in my teens, nice place :) Just being nosy did you go to school there in the early '70s by any chance( apologies if you're younger lol).

Oops Janey.. Fancy you having Cornish Blood ..LOL

The Tamar bridge was built about 1961 I remember it well there were 2 deaths from workmen whilst it was being built , But my my Grt Grt Grandfather worked on the Royal Albert Brunel Railway bridge in the 19th century.

I have an aunt in Saltash near St Stephens Church, have you got any rellies buried there ?

Will look if you wish next time I visit her.

Marilyn...

:-)

GRM, my ancestors moved regularly back and forth across that bridge, so you're continuing a fine tradition. ;)

... No, duh, there wouldn't have been a bridge there then, would there?

My grx2 grmother was born in Antony Passage (transcribed by Ancestry as Auth I Panage, so it took me quite a while to figure out where she came from), one of the terminuses for the ferries that preceded the bridge.

Wishing I could get on a plane today.

We get loads of sun and hot weather here in the summer -- want to do a house exchange? ;)

I grew up ,where Marilyn lives now.And my goodness do I miss the sea.Devon will always be home to me,even though I live a ling way from there now.
Hi Marilyn! :D

I was born & bred in Looe Cornwall, I'm over the other side of the Tamar Bridge now but still love my Cornwall.........

Been to many places overseas , but my winter hideout is Naples in Florida, just love being in the sun........roll on winter,because we aint got it here yet !!
:S

Marilyn....

Of all the airports I have landed in the most beautiful to arrive at, coming down through the mountains is here in the South Island in Queenstown. However, I am not keen on Queenstown itself and as soon as I get there it is grab a rental car and take off. There is some fantastic scenery down there but Queenstown once unspoilt and lovely when I was a youngster is now apartments and swanky hotels/resorts and so commercialised.

My favourite place to go is Tasmania, the airport at Hobart looks like something out of the flying doctors but after that it is sheer bliss. You can travel for miles and there is no other traffic on the road. The scenery is magnificent.

I have been on both sides of the Niagara Falls and yes they are fantastic, it was a cold winters day but was not snowing. the weather was bleak and there was such atmosphere and water spray as well, I could just about reach out and touch them they were so close.

New York - Not the buildings or even the Statue of Liberty ... what a trudge up the inside of her skirt to see out these murky windows at the top. No it is the ice skating at the Rockefeller Center, everytime I see a movie with that scene in it, it brings back the memories.

Persie

Nicky - the Blue Mountains are a sight to behold. They're about 2 1/2 hours drive from where I live and we go there at least twice a year.

Sue

i was born in sussex right by the sea. my grandparents lived across the road from the beach. so my summer holidays were just fabulous and i always remember it hardly ever rained in august!

but one of my favourites as someone else mentioned has to be polperro and looe in cornwall. spent many holidays and weekends with some lovely memories.

of course now i live on an island in the outer hebrides and i love this place too. well after 18 years i guess i do.

as long as i am beside the sea then i am happy. i have always been drawn to it, probably because i was born not 200 yards from the beach.

one year i went to france for a fortnight with some friends. we stayed in a farmhouse 3 hours drive from the nearest coastal town. i couldnt bear it.i had sea withdrawel symptoms!!
florence
in the hebrides :-)

Carol with numbers -- my mum and I visted England in 1994 ... about 10 years before I discovered her father's father's families were rooted for 100s of years in Cornwall, in the Linkinhorne to St Stephens by Saltash area -- so it never occurred to us to go there on our whirlwind 2-week visit!

Next time!

I was born in east sussex and have lived in west sussex nearly all my life.......we have beautiful countryside around here, and lovely beaches where the tide goes out along way to leave vast stretches of sand.

Have been in the past on holiday to the west country Devon and Cornwall and love that part of the country, the lovely little coves, with clifftops overhanging always seem like they come from days gone by.

Have visited the Greek Islands a couple of times and seen some amazing sunsets over the turquoise blue water......


But the most beautiful place i have EVER been in the world in The Blue Mountains about 100 miles? West of Sydney Australia....they absolutley took my breath away...


Nicky