Scott Rosser 💙

#Deaf #BSL user from London. I don't tweet much as I'm far too busy doing nothing!

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@prodnose Wide Awake / Sleeper

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@DrHelenFry My grand-uncle was a private in the RAMC. He was reported missing after his troopship, the SS Laconia, was torpedoed off West Africa on September 1942 (which led to the notorious “Laconia Incident”)

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@NatureRoot88 Auld Reekie

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@paullewismoney Can’t help with the actual play/film, but the prints in the background are from a series of Dickensian characters painted by Frank Reynolds for Buchanan’s Whisky, which were first printed in 1927.

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@bagshaw2112 Channel 4 launched in 1982, so this must be a few years later. My guess is it’s 1984.

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@noor_supernova7 .

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@paul1964Jam Yep. And “Take Hart,” too!

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@VirtualAstro Spotted my first one just a minute ago! (Sth London)

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@rewindtvuk The original Doctor Who opening title sequence, with its strange vortex-like effects. This would’ve been sometime in the mid-1960s.

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@findmypast 1880s mostly, but a couple were born in 1879.

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@MartinSLewis How about a cash ISA that drip-feeds into a linked S&S ISA? (e.g. start with 80% cash & 20% stocks, and transfer a small sum to the S&S ISA on a regular basis (while keeping under the yearly £20K limit at all times)?

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@findmypast I’m descended from the 2nd to last of the 11 children (that I know of) that my 2x great-grandmother had from her three marriages. Another 2x great-gran had 9 children from a single marriage.

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@findmypast My Welsh surname comes from my grandfather who was born near Bedwellty just before the First World War. I think it used to be in Monmouthshire; nowadays it’s part of Caerphilly borough council.

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@findmypast This also cleared up another family mystery. Various family members in this branch of my family have a rather unusual middle name. It turns out this was my (actual) 3x great-grandma’s maiden surname!

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@findmypast Found out my 3rd gt-grandma was actually 2 women in one! Turns out both had the same 1st name, and when the 1st one died my 3x grandad married again within months, giving me no clue I was researching 2 different women! (I’m descended from the 2nd one)

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@findmypast Just wanted to add that of the 7 bigamy cases I mentioned above, a total of 10 people were convicted; 5 were soldiers, and of the remaining five three were women, one of whom had “remarried” while her husband was away fighting at the Front!

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@findmypast Well, the judge who sentenced my GG-uncle remarked that “bigamy had become very frequent [especially] among soldiers” (uncle had been discharged from the Army the year before) and that “there had been nearly 500 cases of bigamy in the past 12 months”!

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@findmypast Thanks. I actually found this item in your newspaper collection last weekend when it was free to view (I already have another photo of my great-uncle in uniform but this one is much clearer).