Helen Porter

I am a citizen, not a subject.

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@PaulSuttonKing What date is this? Not sure I'm reading the postmark correctly.

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@SeaSkyCraster So serene 😌

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@PaulSuttonKing No official records for Bruno, but I'm sure he was a very good boy.

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@PaulSuttonKing George died in 1914. Obituaries mention he was a distinguished athlete and boxer.

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@PaulSuttonKing There was George Henry Vize, poultry dealer, who Iived in Islington, then Wandsworth and Putney. Never married. He would have been 64 in 1910. Retired game salesman on 1911 census, head of household with widowed sister and her son, in a nice area of Putney.

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@PaulSuttonKing @Dave_H_King There was a slightly earlier SS Boston City, launched 1917, sunk 1918. The photos in benjidog's blog do seem to be of 2 different ships, so perhaps confusing the 1917 & 1920 vessels?
SS Bristol City, a sister ship which would have looked very similar? was also sunk in 1917.

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@firstviolinn @jimbojd4 Apparently there's a "Carmel Curtain" dividing the country between saying caramel as 3 syllables or 2.

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@PaulSuttonKing There was a Webb's brewery based in Aberbeeg, south Wales, although certainly the later logo was different. https://t.co/0nxJO2Zy0b

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@GMU12PHY @JuraMurphy @jimbojd4 That's fighting talk

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@GMU12PHY @jimbojd4 I can understand that, because Americans use an different spelling of the word. But there is no excuse for "caramel", or "Graham"!

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@morallawwithin @HuskyChungus

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As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst!

As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s."

The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄

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@PaulSuttonKing Think it's Irene who's smiling. Born in 1881, she never married, and died in 1971. I like to think she was the family's favourite fun maiden aunt.

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@PaulSuttonKing W J Hollebone & Sons was the family business, Wine and Spirit Merchants and Valuers.

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@PaulSuttonKing Mary died in 1929.
Mary Harriet Gough, 24, married William Joshua Hollebone, 23, 1866. He was a wine merchant.

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@PaulSuttonKing In 1921, 5 of Mary's adult children are still living at home. All single; ages 33 to 53. And they say kids these days don't move out!

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@PaulSuttonKing 1926, sorry

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@PaulSuttonKing William died in 1902, leaving a large fortune.