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Congratulations to whoever set up the charity 'Womens Warm Welcome Worldwide'.
However, there are many lonely, bereaved, divorced single men and women, who would welcome a similar organisation to meet and holiday together at home and to travel abroad in a group to escape the British Winter.
The Gambia April 1980, were you there?
Remember Kunta Kinte on TV 1979? It was this that promoted one of the 1st charter trips to the Gambia March/April 1980, the only news we heard from home was the Bristol Riots!
Why am I trying to find a couple who names and contact I have lost? They took cine film of me doing a tribal dance in a dusty village in the Gambia, after teaching the natives hands knees and bumps a daisy with a few other nutty Brits we did the Conga?
I did ring the couple not long after return from the holiday, but as you may remember you could not get cine film copied that easy 30 years ago! Then an accident in a failed fire rescue November 16th 1981, spending 9 months in Stoke Mandeville Hospital (we did have Jimmy Saville popping in and out) then another 18 months before I had settled in my own accommodation so lost contact with:- this now mystery couple? Contact email: - georgelikesbikes@blueyonder.co.uk
How can I grow ginger?
A reader, Miss P Gillow, tells us that she adores ginger and has asked us whether she can grow it herself. We posed the problem to our gardening guru Carole Davies.
Do you remember Kardomah Cafes?
I need MT readers help: I'm trying to piece together the 'History of the Kardomah Cafes', their locations, peoples memories of them, people who worked in them and any recollections of any famous people who may have frequented them.
Were YOU in the Southern Area Speedway League?
"I am doing some research into the Southern Area Speedway League, which was operating from 1954-1959. Do you have any programmes or photos from this period?" asks one MT reader
National Service Conscripts -were you the last one?
2010 marks the 50th Anniversary of the end of National Service and the National Service (RAF) Association are looking to commemorate this important date. As well as holding a huge re-union and Parade at the RAF Museum at Cosford on July 4th, the association is also seeking the last conscripted National Servicemen from all 3 Services in the hope that the British Legion will allow them to march at the head of a column in the November Remembrance Parade at the London Cenotaph – rather as last three surviving WWI veterans, Bill Stone, Harry Patch, and Henry Allingham did in 2008.
Do you remember the Canadian veterans?
Two authors are appealing for help with a book they are writing
about the Canadian Service personnel stationed in Worthing and West
Sussex England during World War Two.
Do YOU remember Wee Willy Harris?
The musicians you remember say a lot about your age as well as your taste. So do you remember Wee Willie Harris?
Calling Irish 'Angels'
Were you one of the thousands of young Irish women who came to England in the 1950s to train as a nurse? Did you come to London to train in a NHS hospital? If you trained or worked in a Lambeth hospital (St Thomas’s, King’s, Royal Waterloo, General Lying In York Road, South Western, Lambeth Hospital, Annie McCall Maternity Hospital, South London Hospital for Women Clapham) between the 1940s and the 1960s then Lambeth Archives would like to hear from you.
Have YOU spotted a UFO ?
Pat Regan, Southport Author and Founder of North West UFO Research, is
seeking reports from MT readers regarding UFO sightings; have you seen anything unusual in our skies?
Please include as much detail as possible including time, date, exact location, weather conditions and any other witnesses present that are relevant to the UFO sighting.
Suitable written accounts may be included in a forthcoming UFO book currently being written by Pat, so please also state if it is acceptable to use your name and personal details in your UFO report.
A la recherche du pere perdu
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I wonder if anyone reading this can help me? During 1944-1945, my grandmother was a cleaning lady, working for Madam Marie-Louise Clerget, at Luc-sur-Mer. My grandmother’s name was Christiane Thouan (pictured left) .
Royal Navy seeks relatives
The Royal Navy is seeking the living relatives of Chief Gunner Israel Harding VC, and Sergeant Norman Finch VC.,to attend the opening ceremony of two new accommodation blocks at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth, which have been named after the two men.
Lost army pals - can you help?
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Two MT readers are looking for help in tracing their old army pals who served in 29th Field Ambulance at Hildershime Germany 1955-1958, with a view to organising a reunion.
Help to save H.M.S. Plymouth
What could be the last petition to save Ex Royal Navy boat H.M.S.Plymouth and return it to its Westcountry home has now been launched on the prime ministers website.
