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The Common Room / Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #10 Ruby Wax
« on: Friday 06 October 17 18:17 BST (UK)  »
You may find this interesting. It's about 'memory' being passed through generations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25156510

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The Common Room / "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #9 Lisa Hammond
« on: Saturday 09 September 17 18:38 BST (UK)  »
Anyone?

I found myself fast forwarding through bits of it. I didn't really warm to Lisa, but nearer the end when she was talking about the countryside and how difficult it was as a disabled person, I felt I understood more where she was coming from.

I also find that when they go back and back and back and back, I'm not so engaged.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Unknown English girls - dating help required, please
« on: Tuesday 05 September 17 22:44 BST (UK)  »
Carol, I thought they were both girls, the one sitting looks to be only a few years older at most than the other.

Mary Ann never married. Hannah's my gt grandma.


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Unknown English girls - dating help required, please
« on: Monday 04 September 17 20:24 BST (UK)  »
If the picture were Hannah and Mary Ann.... this is a picture of Hannah later in life. I think it could be her.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Unknown English girls - dating help required, please
« on: Monday 04 September 17 20:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

Thanks very much for your replies. :)

I actually had them as sisters, the younger one being about 11-12 and the older one.....well, a bit older!  ;D

I didn't know that about tintypes and booths, thanks.

If I said 1888 would anyone think that too late?  I've been looking through my tree and the 1880s falls between generations, so to speak. The majority of people are either into adulthood or under 10.

Apart from two girls, Hannah and Mary Ann. Hannah would be 15 in 1888 and Mary Ann 12.

I think the one sitting down is wearing glasses.

Once again, thanks very much for your suggestions.

Best wishes,
Helena

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Unknown English girls - dating help required, please
« on: Sunday 03 September 17 16:47 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

This tintype is part of a collection of photographs that I have in an album belonging to one of my Lancashire families. However, I don't know who these girls are and would appreciate a bit of help to perhaps narrow down the timeframe.

My initial guess was some time in the early 1880s, although tintypes were reducing in popularity by then.

I'd also appreciate ideas on how old these girls might be.

Thank you very much.

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The Lighter Side / Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #8 Noel Clarke
« on: Saturday 02 September 17 21:30 BST (UK)  »
I know him as Mickey from Doctor Who, and apparently he was in Auf Weidersehen, Pet back in the day!

You know what I liked as well, that they went round to his mum's flat and she didn't live in a fancy country cottage like many of the celeb's parents seem to do!  It was nice and ordinary and very down to earth.

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The Lighter Side / "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #8 Noel Clarke
« on: Saturday 02 September 17 17:48 BST (UK)  »
This one was the best of the series so far, in my opinion.

I really enjoyed the laughs around him thinking he was Trinidadian, but that every branch of his family seemed to lead him elsewhere in the Caribbean.

He was lucky I think to have an ancestor named Glasgow, which narrowed his search somewhat. And all these relatives he had, popping up everwhere when he'd had a childhood where it had basically just been him and his mum. My eyes were a bit damp at that.

I found him really eloquent and sincere, and the end where the music that had been passed through his lineage was sung in the present day was especially moving.

A really memorable episode for me. 

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The Common Room / Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #7 Fearne Cotton
« on: Friday 25 August 17 13:13 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: carlineric on Friday 25 August 17 08:19 BST (UK)
I feel they did a great disservice to William Gilmour by suggesting that he was not a qualified doctor as he had not been to university and gained his MD and that he was just making it up as he went along. He was actually a qualified doctor, he had received his licence to practice from the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow in 1854. This was before the Medical Act of 1858 which required a medical degree or licence before you could practice medicine. He would have served an apprenticeship of around three to five years learning from a "master" and maybe also attending lectures at a  medical school or university. He was registered as doctor on 1 January 1859 when the 1858 Act came into force. He also gained his Double Qualification in Medicine and Surgery in 1860 by becoming a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh in 1860. The 1854 newspaper report contained the clue to his being a qualified doctor as he is shown as Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, and Licentiate in Midwifery of Glasgow. So we had a young newly qualified doctor looking for adventure.

Thanks very much for this information. Instead of questioning the credentials of Dr Gilmour perhaps we should be questioning those of the historian on the programme who told Fearne that he wasn't a real doctor, just a chancer!  ;)

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