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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Albert and Cora Young - Nunburnholme
« on: Wednesday 11 May 11 18:22 BST (UK)  »
Hello and thank you for your last email with your PM. I sent a couple of emails to a Watermelon on the 8th & 9th but as yet have heard nothing in reply which seems odd in view of your usual prompt returns. Could you please acknowledge receipt or otherwise in which case I will try again.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Albert and Cora Young - Nunburnholme
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 10:43 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your reply. I am new to this but don't seem to have had a personal message with your email address, I attach photos anyway.
I apologize for the quality of the portraits but I have isolated them from a group shot I took at our Christmas party in 1959 on a slide. (transparency) I may have some more when I can find them.
I took the aerial view of the village in 1992 with the Rectory and Church in the foreground. Their new house is marked on both photos with a red arrow opposite the farm where my parents lived. The little school where Cora taught is marked with a yellow arrow - so they didn't move far!

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Albert and Cora Young - Nunburnholme
« on: Friday 06 May 11 12:49 BST (UK)  »
I knew Albert and Cora Young very well. They retired to a newly built house opposite to us in the middle of the village.
They were great friends of my parents now deceased.
I have three paintings by Cora, (dated 1967 & 69) a talented watercolourist and one or two colour photographs of them at our house.
They were the first people in the village to own a TV. when they lived at the Old Rectory. In the mid to late 1940s we were often invited to watch the six inch screen with bright green picture and magnifying lens in front!
I'm afraid I don't know Cora's maiden name and always referred to her as Mrs Young. I think she died about 1974 and Albert pre deceased her by 5 or 6 years.
Although I now live 70 miles from Nunburnholme I often visit the village and know several people there who were taught by her at the village school. Further researches would be possible and I have photographs of them, the village, the school and the Rectory at the time, available on request.

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