nothing much here
yet either
Some old (Whiteing) family
pictures - taken in about 1919
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Nan and Grandad Fisher, plus twins Katherine (my mum) and Arthur (Jumbo), and older sister Eve | |
The pictures above
were taken in Hendon Lane, Finchley. The motorcycle and sidecar was built by
another relative Harry Turpin, probably of Tottenham.
An interesting story
about motorcycles related to the late 1960s, where my father and I used to
frequent a transport cafe in East Finchley run by a friend, Ron. Two brothers
who worked for the council weere doing some clearance work and came across an
old motorcycle which they were going to dump but I identified it as a Wooler.
Ron said fancied restoring this, although he had never undertaken that before,
so I gave him some articles for him to read some background. Unfortunately his
inexperience led to his frustration until my mum mentioned Harry 'who knew lots
about motorcycles'. We went to collect Harry and his face was a picture when he
saw that the bike was the same model as he had left in a basement in Camden
Town years before. Yes, you guessed it, it was one and the same!
The end of
the story was that eventually Ron was just waiting for some special tyres to be
made (by one of the large tyre companies), when someone drugged his guard-dog
in the yard and stole the bike and the as-yet unassembled parts.
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A Wooler - although possibly not the same model as in the story above | |
| lots of old family photos | ||
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family01 | slideshow of 26 |
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family02 | slideshow of 30 |
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family03 | slideshow of 27 |
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family04 | slideshow of 24 |
| dad's photos from WW2 | |
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part 1 |
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part 2 |
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part 3 |
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part 4 |
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