Abbots Hospital, Guildford circa 1890

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Julie Goucher
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100 Word Challenge – Week 20 part 1

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Julie Goucher

Joining the weekly 100 words challenge for Grown ups. A selection of prompts for this week is below, based upon the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible, which was celebrated last week.

….the powers that be / the apple of his eye / the writing on the wall
The alarm clock sounded and an arm stretched out to snooze it. She had been awake for hours already, as was the case most days. After a while she headed off to the bathroom for the regular morning ritual, joined by the recent addition of feeling sick, so sick that she could barely get dressed. After a forced morning drink she left the house clutching the important envelope. When she arrived and handed it to him, he looked surprised and said “why?” to which she replied “no surprises, the writing has been on the wall for some time now”

For this week, I have continued with a second part.

Taking part in the 100 word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week #20

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Stoke Road, Guildford Circa 1904

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Julie Goucher
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Wordless Wednesday

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Julie Goucher
Taking part in Wordless Wednesday
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The Olde White Hart, Guildford circa 1902

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Julie Goucher
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Tea Cup Tuesday – British Empire Exhibition 1924

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Julie Goucher

This is one of my favourites. Purchased a few years ago in Honiton. As soon as I saw it I had to have it! I remember looking at the price and seeing £28 and thinking that money on a cup I will never use? I pondered and then took the item to the lady behind the desk.

Made of a heavy china, with no marking on the reverse or the bottom. This little beauty was made for the  British Empire Exhibition in 1924. The exhibition was hosted at Wembley. The two spoons sitting in the mug are also from the Exhibition, and somewhere I have a postcard or two.

To read more about the Empire which inspired the Exhibition click HERE. There is also a study group for those who are interested in the various Exhibitions hosted

Here it is with some other mugs. Some have been featured over the last few weeks and others are coming up!

Submitted as part of Tea Cups Tuesday hosted by Artful Affirmations & Martha’s Favourites

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Joining the 2012 Ebook Challenge

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Julie Goucher
2012 Ebook Challenge
Hosted for 2012 by Workaday Reads. Click HERE to sign up.
I have committed to read 5 e-books through the course of a year which is known as “floppy disc” This should be easily achieved as I have a few e-books awaiting to be read and I also have my trusty iPad. I have it on fairly good authority that Santa is bring me a Kindle for Christmas, so really there is no excuse!
Here are my books – 
  1. London & Londoners in the 1850s & 1860s by Alfred Rosling Bennett (Published 1924) (eBook by Lee Jackson 2011)
  2. Gypsy Feast: Recipes & Culinary Traditions of the Romany People by Carol Wilson (Published 2004)
  3. Throwing Clay Shadows by Thea Atkinson (Published 2011)
  4. Olga – A Daughter’s Tale by Marie Campbell (Published 2011)
  5. Crime Fiction for Beginners by Gervase Shorter (Published 2011)
  6. Unraveling Ada, A Quilted Mystery Novel by Barbara Sullivan (Published 2009)
  7. Master Chef Tom’s Burns Night by Tom Bridge  (Published 2010)
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Carnival Of Genealogy 112 – An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Julie Goucher
Here in the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. We do, or we did when I was at school take part in Harvest Festivals.  For this Carnival of Genealogy are am going to do some imaging, based up the facts surrounding the amazing life of my husband’s Great Grandmother.
Annie Rhodes was born in Bradford Yorkshire in 1869. In 1889 in Bradford she married Charles Worship and together they had three daughters, Emily, Florence and Lilian, my husband’s Grandmother. Over the course of the last 5 years or so I have researched the Rhodes and Worship family and you can read about it in an earlier post HERE. In 1905, Annie Worship, although recorded as Wurship, boarded a ship to the United States; with her was a new baby, a son, that had been born in Bradford.
Passenger List from Ancestry.com 1905
When Annie got off the boat, in Philadelphia she became known as Annie Hindle as did the baby. Her divorce from Charles Worship did not take place until 1921 and her eventual marriage to Harry Hindle in New York in 1922. From what I can understand, Annie had a relationship with Harry in England and then became pregnant. She left her husband and migrated to America following her new love. Upon arrival she took Harry’s name, but it would be 16 years before they could marry. 
As the ship from England had arrived a year earlier just after Thanksgiving, it would not be until 1906 when Annie & Harry with their son Henry would celebrate Thanksgiving.  It appears that Annie and Harry embraced their new life in a new Country. I am imagining that they sat down to dinner together, perhaps with new friends and celebrated the weekend. While the turkey or duck was in the oven did Annie quickly whisk up some batter and make Yorkshire Puddings to accompany their dinner? And as she did so, did her thoughts turn to her children left behind in Yorkshire? 
After dinner, was there some board games, or perhaps laughing and jokes?  Did Annie, in the midst of those celebrations turn her thoughts to England to her three daughters that she had left behind? Did she feel a little bit of regret? Would any of us make a different decision? Remembering that this is the early 20th Century. Views of living as a married couple when married to another would have been severely frowned upon. Abandoning her children likewise. It is so easy for us to view things through modern eyes. Annie made a huge and very difficult decision. 
These are questions that we will never know the answer too. My late father in law had a series of photos and we videoed them in the mid 1990s. I have since transferred those images to DVD, but very little of their life in America has passed to us. What has happened is that I made contact with someone who was the step son Annie and Harry’s son. He very kindly provided me with some details and the very special image below, the only photograph that we have of Annie & Harry Hindle and their son Henry Rhodes Hindle.
Family
Taking part in the Carnival of Genealogy, hosted by Jasia.
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Walker Engineering Company, Guildford

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Julie Goucher
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Book Meme – Day 11 – A book you hated

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Julie Goucher
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
This had to be By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart. Image courtesy of Amazon
Back in 1994 I was living in South East London and undertaking an English Literature module at the Middlesex University. This was one of the standard set reads.
Maybe, I am a philistine, but I simply do not get the book. Another read on Amazon as I write this post, and I can see from the reviews that it is referred to as a “timeless classic”, and I still feel that I don’t understand the book. 
Just to be fair to the author I am going to add this to my library list and have another read of it and see if anything clicks with me this time.
Fingers crossed!  Has anyone else read it, and what were your views?
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