Everyday Systems: shovelglove: message 273 of 649

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I have not contributed recently - bit of a family crisis diverted me. My Mum was 
rushed into hosptial with a ruptured bowel. She is ok now, but my parents are about 
225 miles away so visiting the hospital was a bit time consuming!

Anyway, while chatting to my Dad the other night we ended up looking through a load 
of old family papers - birth and marriages certificates etc. On my grandmother's 
birth certificate I found out that my great grandfather's profession was a 
"labourer at coke ovens".

Needless to say, this transformed my next SG session, with me now visualising life in 
the 1890s/1900s shovelling around the coke ovens....

If I keep digging round the archives I might find the ancestral lumberjack, and those 
14 minutes will never be the same again!

Chris 


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