General Chat

nudge to keep in with the London theme

I love London.

My mum was born in fulham and lived in fulham and chelsea untill she got married to a fulhamer lol
then she came to middlesex.....
and thats where i came along well about 14 years laterlol but my great nan and 1st grandad are buried in brompton cemetery
but i do love londoners
Rosex

i love london don't think i could live any where else.

i was gutted when i had my second son as i was in dagenham at the time and did not have time to make it back to my own hospital so now sadly his birth cert has essex on it and not london.

Jill I know Lodden................................

bet it was special for you................

Glynisxxx

I should have been born in Camberwell to Scottish and N.Irish parents.....but at that time the London hospitals were full of returning soldiers and SELondon maternity was evacuated up to Leicester.....

I don't consider myself a Londoner, I feel more Scottish than anything......I left London when I was 7, but went to school there......we lived on the Camberwell New Road with a pub in front, on a cross roads with the traffic lights with traffic and trams day and night......I went to school there.....

When we moved to the new town I thought I had died and gone to heaven......fields, green, I could go out and play......none of the grey drabness.......my niece works up there, so did OH until 10 years ago and my son often has to go on business.......I enjoy the theatres and eating out there.......but I am glad Mum and Dad decided to leave.......it is healthier here (perhaps not because we still have Buncefield)....lol

when I was in school I spent all my school holidays in London with either one of my mother's two sisters who lived there - one in Stepney and one in 'Shepherds Bush - I lived in a cottage in the country, so for me it was heaven. However, London now is a different kettle of fish. I have the feeling that if you collapsed in the street people would step over you and carry on their way - but probably the people you meet in the West End are not Londoners at all, but tourists

My sister moved there 5 years ago and loves, I enjoy it for a day or 2 but couldn't live there

Hi Glynis

South Norfolk - very near Suffolk - little village called Toft Monks (Loddon reg district - few miles from Beccles). We visited last year and walked into the graveyard and there were my ancestors' graves - in a row - to the left of the path. Amazing. The church can't have changed much since they were married and baptised and buried there but the village looks very "updated" with lots of (I think) 70s bungalows!

Still, it was lovely to visit.

Jill

I,m a londoner.........born there to .....

Its in your blood as me grandad would say ...love it

All our siblings (eight of them) are still in London...we visit at least once a month.

My sisters' one bedroomed starter home in Putney is £90.000 more than our 3 bed house in Herts.

London is my home town and has been the home of my family for 300 years.
I also left in the 1980's and cant afford to get back in but my eldest sister is still there :)

I love London:) I have a lot of London ancestors but I'm not a Londoner, although I've always spent a lot of my free time there. I'm a country boy and love town and country:)

When I first did genealogy I thought an ag lab was a sciencist worker in a laboratory.

We are born and bred Londoners. As a young married couple in the early 1980's we were forced out due to unaffordable property prices.

I would never move back to either Middlesex or Herts now.

I visit and it's great but I'm always glad to be *home*now xx

Yes, as some of my London ancestors also originated in Norfolk.

Jill............................what part of Norfolk??


Glynisxxx

I'm a Londoner by birth - Southwark - lived in London for 30 years or so then moved to Kent.

Love London - no worries.

Kent's not bad - but I find it has its own issues. Maybe it's a case of the grass being greener ... ?

Funny, until I started doing the tree I thought my family - on both sides - were Londoners for generations! Mum's father's lot - yes. The rest - huh - Kent, Beds, Bucks and Norfolk. I feel like one of those Heinz 57 people now!!

Mind you, so far I've not found one ag lab in my tree!

Jill

Grew up in Middlesex but couldnt live back there.I do like all the 'city sights' though.