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Originally Posted by Motorhemp
Me & my mum in Sefton park.
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1950's
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Otterspool park. I'm the one on the far left crying ! :)
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The Dolan family c.1908, outside the family home in Lusmagh, Co.Offaly.
Back row: Thomas (3rd child), John (7th), Edward (5th & author of the Lusmagh Fields), Loughlin (8th), Joseph (9th), Michael (4th), Daniel (2nd) & Cousin Steve Couglin.
Front row: Patrick (1st), Mary (6th), Uncle Dan (home from Australia), Margaret & William.
That cottage that they are outside is where my dad was born and my grandad was the third from the right on the back row,the vast majority of my family are Irish and I rarely get to see them now because they are all so spread out.
The Lusmagh Fields So Green
This poem was written by Edward Dolan (my grandfather's brother) in 1908 and he posted it home while en route to Australia, via Liverpool and London, with the instructions that his cousin Stephen Coughlan should write music for it, which he did. It has become the Lusmagh Parish anthem.
Edward Dolan left for Australia with his uncle Dan (who had come home from Melbourne) after a farewell party. Edward and Dan Dolan are pictured on the Dolan family photograph in the 'Photo Album' which was taken outside the family home in Lusmagh, Co.Offaly, prior to them leaving for Australia.
In London town I do lie down upon my bed to sleep.
When I think of home and how I must roam across the waters deep,
I can't sleep a wink when 'ere I think of home and my cailin,
Ah will I ever more see you astor, or the Lusmagh fields so green.
In my youthful sport I did resort to dear old Foolagh lane,
And it runs in my head the old car shed, I will never see again.
For a long while I'll be an exile until God's will has been
For me to roam back to my home in the Lusmagh fields so green.
In Cruchan Street where I used to meet with the lads so bright and gay,
Where we did conspire to our hearts' desire and always got our way,
Twas through the village I used to pillage while I was that age sixteen,
How I did delight to roam at night through the Lusmagh fields so green.
Where I used to lie when I was a boy just at the Deerpark stile
In Cruchan Wood where I oft times stood with the lads to talk awhile.
Going to 'the sports' I passed Clufan fort where the ghost used to be seen,
But I don't believe that a ghost could live in those Lusmagh fields so green.
In a few days more I'll leave the shore of this great British town
And I'll take my leave with a farewell wave as the Thames I do sail down.
Through Biscay bay I'll sail away and I'll view many a scene,
But I'll see none there that can compare with the Lusmagh fields so green.
Through Gibraltar Strait and Mediterranean great, the Suez and the Red Sea,
Going through Port Said and Arabia's Head, shure it's all like a dream to me,
When I'm far apart, it will break my heart to see all those miles between,
The Deerpark Hill and the ruins of the mill and the Lusmagh fields so green.
On Fremantle's earth not far from Perth I do expect to land,
Where the tiger-snake, it often takes a life on the desert sand,
If it be my lot on that foreign spot, to lie and never be seen
But when I die may my soul fly, to the Lusmagh fields so green.
Great stuff Paul. Thanks.
My Grandad, Lawrence Wood and my youngest brother, Ken. They look so similar. Never got to meet my Grandad. He died 3 years before I was born.
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Dave, the loss of my grandparents was devastating :disgust:. Wish they could have seen my kids. Here's my grandad at Garston Police Station.
Harry The Brush
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I love this pic, Kev. I bet he was a right laugh. I wish my Mum and Dad were still around to see their grandkids. I lost my Dad in 1996 and my Mum last year. I took this pic of my Mum about 7 months before she passed away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
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A lovely pic Dave. My grandad was full of laughs. He's the one that would find humour in the most unlikeliest of situations, family weddings he would have us laughing out loud at the most inapropriate times. Sunday afternoons were his thing, a drink down the local boozer (The Masonic, Garston). I was still a little too young to endulge in a beer or two. He bought me my first suit for my work experience.
When he died, the police all took up positions on the street corners of every rd from Argyle Rd, Garston all the way to the Crem at Springwood as a mark of respect.
:)I never got to meet one of my Grandads either but my other Grandad sailed around the World 27 times and was on the great Liverpool cruise liners like Mauitania,Lusitania and the Brittanic,thanks for the pictures and for sharing your stories lads.Quote:
Originally Posted by scouserdave
My grandad. second down from middle of doorway. First world war soldiers.
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My grandad seated behind the cup.
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Kev's thread has prompted me to begin scanning the family pics which I've been given charge of since our Mum passed away.
Here's a few
Three of my Dad as a kid when he served in the Royal Engineers in Egypt and Libya in the early '50s. First pic he's middle row in front of the goalie.
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http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scanned/dad002.jpg
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My Mum, aged 8 years old when she was evacuated to Pen-y-groes in WW2
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scanned/mum.jpg
Myself and younger bro' Colin at Formby
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I traced the ship that my mothers brother (my uncle) was on when he was killed. She never knew the name or any details. The ship was torpedoed by U-135 near off Cape Race. He was seen to take to the lifeboats but never seen again - a Belgian ship. Why was he on a Belgian ship? He was a deserter from the British army. As a merchant seaman he hated the army. He joined an armed Belgian tub that was German owned, sold to the Belgians and due to be scrapped in 1939 and kept on for the war. The army came for him after he was killed - he would have been jailed. The Belgians have his name on the Cenotaph in Antwerp. In the UK he was a disgrace and in Belgium a hero. And all in the same war fighting the same enemy.
http://www.uboat.net/allies/ships/photos/be/gandia.jpg
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/1282.html
There a list of civilian dead available online that lists the death of the merchant marine too in its indexes ... searchable by surname. I'm sure its a .gov.uk site ..
does anyone have the link at hand ?
http://www.cwgc.org/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Links to tracing relatives who died during WWII can be found here ^^^
As a Suez Vet., who also served in the zone in the early 50s, (1952) at the same time as you Dad,you might care to look at a couple of sites concerning Suez! One is The Suez Vets Site, and another is Britains Small Wars (Suez Section) you might find them interesting! Best Regards.
Thanks Norm NZ. I'll have a look at them this morning.
Me in the school football team around 19084/85. I'm sure Mr Norris would confirm that we had the best school team in Liverpool, guess where I am?
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My Dad, Mum, me, aunties and cousins about 1961
Kev, are you on the end of the top row - right hand side ? :)
Great photos people:)
Lindylou, got anymore New Brighton photos to show off? Is that the Tower Ballroom in the background?
Kev - back row, end one on the right.
Easy!http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7862/36884em.gifEasy!
On board RMS Sylvania
Philip Ledsham and his dad, Georgie. I'm on the right. They were our neighbours when we lived in Hughes St.
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a few pics, most have been lost over time.
more
another one
I always knew you were a hooligan,:)
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Originally Posted by lindylou
Yep, that's me.Quote:
Originally Posted by scouserdave
Aye well, :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
more, 1960
This should have been with the above.
yet more
All smashing photies :celb (23):
Scouserdave - I havn't got anymore of New brighton. Yes, that will be the Tower ballroom in the background.
My dad was home from sea from New York, I think he looks cool on the photos. :)
notice there's an army guy over to the right too.
Larkhill park in the 'good old days'
Howie might know this street.
My dear departed Grandma's house 137 Leopold Rd, Kenny.
My baby brother Ken and former
Sandgrounder Southport FC footballer niece Lucy are in the
pic
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Abersoch
The three bros:)
L-R Me (12 yrs), Our Ken (3 yrs), Our Colin (10 yrs)
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Barons Hey, Canny Farm
L-R Our Colin (13 yrs), Our Ken (6 yrs),
unknown
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Oh look! AQuote:
Originally Posted by scouserdave
Ford Anglia with a Liverpool registration and a go-faster stripe. I had one once - a banger. Bought it from the Parkfield auctions and the doors kept
flying open going around corners.
I thought you'd remark on the Ford Anglia:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
I think my
Dad's car was the Vauxhall Viva just behind it.
Vauxhall Victor, not Viva. The Anglia is the De-luxe with the full chrome grill and someone put a badge bar on it. Yes people wouldQuote:
Originally Posted by scouserdave
put metal badges on these - yes, they really did! They would lacerate pedestrians if they hit them.
Spot on. Apologies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
Mum and I having a dance and a laugh at Huyton Social Club. Probably circa 1985!
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