June 8, 2009
A cubby hole in the kitchen, where a servant used to sleep, now housed the ironing and the safe, and became a stage for my endless theatrical performances.
The costumes for these extravaganzas were housed upstairs in the tiny box room where a chest contained my great grandmother’s Victorian and Edwardian clothes. Every afternoon, whilst the [...]
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June 3, 2009
Firhill had been a family home for my maternal great grandparents and their ten children. My great grandfather, and then my Uncle John owned the Albert engineering works at the foot of the hill opposite the house, so presumably they were fairly affluent. Certainly the photographs would indicate this, plus of course, the size of [...]
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