BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #4: LARRY LAMB (Actor)

[Lydart]

I liked it that the Days he met said if they had know about the child of Albert, they would have taken her in, not allowed an adoption ...

[purplekat]

I liked it that the Days he met said if they had know about the child of Albert, they would have taken her in, not allowed an adoption ...

Yes, I thought that was a lovely moment

[nainmaddie]

Thoroughly enjoyed this programme about Larry Lamb.

A mixture of everything, adoption, travelling fairground people, new found family, and if you watch the clip provided, he found Kay Rosen's grave.

An excellent evening !

[Pebbles Kernow]

I've yet to watch this episode (OH chose 2 mins before the start of the programme to telephone me for a chat - just because he had 2 hours to wait to make a delivery   ) After all the comments I am looking forward to it even more than I was. All I can say is thank goodness for sky+.

Larry Lamb has done a couple of promotional interviews on TV this past week and he mentioned that the red button service on the BBC has some more about his story. Something about they used him to show how to do the researching and where to look. It's part of the BBC First Click campaign. I know you can get red button on freeview, but not sure about on line.

Pebs

[jillruss]

I agree - I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was interested to see Larry at the Fairground Archive at Sheffield University. Its somewhere I keep meaning to go as I have fairground ancestors (grandfather and great grandfather). If they're all as helpful as that professor lady was with Larry, I might take the plunge.

Unfortunately, my ancestors weren't famous showmen like Larry's. They just worked for showmen like Randall Williams so not sure if there'd be any records to be found. 

I also agree with Milly - nice to see them doing 'one of us' for a change instead of those with links to well documented gentry.

Jill

[flipflops]

It's the best one I've seen - but was it irony when LL visited a traditional funfair, and as he was saying that it was just how he remembered them to be as a boy, the camera cut to a shot of a board saying '3 balls for £1.00' &!&

I think it would have been nearer 6d if it was totally traditional LOL

[cati]

It's the best one I've seen - but was it irony when LL visited a traditional funfair, and as he was saying that it was just how he remembered them to be as a boy, the camera cut to a shot of a board saying '3 balls for £1.00' &!&

I think it would have been nearer 6d if it was totally traditional LOL

The funfair is a permanent exhibit at the Black Country Museum:  more details about it here:
http://www.bclm.co.uk/map15.htm

It's still a working funfair, so I suppose prices have to reflect current ones...

Cati

[LizzieW]

I thought it interesting that having got his grandmother's marriage cert, which showed she'd married in a register office, they just automatically decided to check synagogues.  My first thought - and I would guess, most other peoples - would have been to see if there were any children of the marriage.  The fact that they just jumped to a syngagogue didn't ring true, and how did they know which one to choose?   I suppose they had to get the link to the synagogue and granny becoming Jewish somehow.

I liked the way the American guy showed his research.  Looked for a death of granny, couldn't find one so looked for the death of her husband.  Found it, got the certificate and then found granny used a different Christian name, so checked for deaths under that name, then as she was only about 60 when her husband died, looked for marriages.  At least it showed how to get round difficulties in finding people in records.

Lizzie

[Lydart]

I suppose her marrying someone with an obviously Jewish name like Rosen was the clue; then they must have seen where the registry office marriage was, and then checked to see if there was any records in a local synagogue ?  Maybe they just got lucky, or maybe they checked all the synagogue records in that area of London.


Perhaps Jews marrying a gentile in a registry office weren't considered married properly, until the non-Jew had converted ?   Then the marriage followed on ...

Just guessing !