tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post609942102895338574..comments2024-03-28T18:43:48.393+00:00Comments on Scroblene...: Back to the past...Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-35793364563556030722007-09-05T02:00:00.000+01:002007-09-05T02:00:00.000+01:00It's a pity it took the Luftwaffe to do that for u...It's a pity it took the Luftwaffe to do that for us, Ed.Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-68405277811885704822007-09-04T11:33:00.000+01:002007-09-04T11:33:00.000+01:00Somewhere there is a happy balance between keeping...Somewhere there is a happy balance between keeping the best of the old and making way for the best of the new.<BR/><BR/>I like buildings!Old BEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974090439936326476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-59275400925758868512007-09-04T11:01:00.000+01:002007-09-04T11:01:00.000+01:00That's so cool... a piece of living history - and ...That's so cool... a piece of living history - and how coincidental that you should just see it there. Sadly the only buildings worthy of note in our family photo albums are insane asylums or prisons.Mermaid of Moorgatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13485679698269770465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-68803376524564398742007-09-04T07:26:00.000+01:002007-09-04T07:26:00.000+01:00Electro; I think I'd rather do what you do than go...Electro; I think I'd rather do what you do than go down a mine. <BR/><BR/>Is the Eurostar celebration warranted today? I think so, as I've been watching it being built every day, and only been on it a couple of times!Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-12245407851875116892007-09-04T07:24:00.000+01:002007-09-04T07:24:00.000+01:00Aunt! Eventually, everyone will know everything ab...Aunt! Eventually, everyone will know everything about everyone if we keep going on like this!<BR/><BR/>Wouldn't mind the trip to France though, Eurostar starts properly todaySen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-76366706718219907522007-09-04T07:22:00.000+01:002007-09-04T07:22:00.000+01:00Lilith; lovely tale.It really means something when...Lilith; lovely tale.<BR/><BR/>It really means something when you realise that all this happened to people who didn't think that possibly there'd be a return to the fold...<BR/><BR/>I'm afraid I only have memories of digs in Ashford, and I hope none of my forbears lived in the same house, as the loo seat was sellotaped up!Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-81957977509830490582007-09-04T07:18:00.000+01:002007-09-04T07:18:00.000+01:00IanB - Thanks for that! Of course, it would have b...IanB - Thanks for that! Of course, it would have become 'St Fannys'... (an old chum used to ride a very unreliable Francis Barnett motorbike - known as his 'Fanny B')!<BR/><BR/>I like bits of MK, and was involved with the old MKDC when all the industrial units went up. Eventually, I also got involved with Xscape, but that's a different story...<BR/><BR/>I wish I could find more sites; there is one more which I'll do later on, and it really was a blast from the past!Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-82115736061424014932007-09-02T22:58:00.000+01:002007-09-02T22:58:00.000+01:00Interesting article.My family were shipbuilders an...Interesting article.<BR/><BR/>My family were shipbuilders and miners.<BR/><BR/>I'd need either a submarine or a bloody big shovel to examine their legacy. (Good miners but crap ship builders I'm afraid.)Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-73913691660681384112007-09-02T11:43:00.000+01:002007-09-02T11:43:00.000+01:00You're right. I need to send some of the photos to...You're right. I need to send some of the photos to Cammel-Laird's, and some to a town called Carcouet in France, and some to the Stade de Geneve.<BR/><BR/>Fun stuff, this family archiving, isn't it!The Aunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14529168814096715981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-48511963018926139782007-09-02T09:52:00.000+01:002007-09-02T09:52:00.000+01:00Its great to see the trees are still there too, al...Its great to see the trees are still there too, albeit pollarded to the bone :-) What a treat Scroblene!<BR/><BR/>When I was at university I lived in Leamington Spa in Charlotte St. My mother started doing genealogy for her mother's father's family, starting in Nottingham where she had an inkling they came from. She found records (Edwin Walter Woodhouse is an unusual enough name) and it turned out the family had moved from Nottingham to Leamington Spa in the early 1800's and thence to New Zealand. Guess where my great great great grandfather lived? Charlotte Street, Leamington Spa!lilithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011676751221508167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-57458581618090687362007-09-02T09:36:00.000+01:002007-09-02T09:36:00.000+01:00Ahhh Letchworth, it is indeed a place of nostaligi...Ahhh Letchworth, it is indeed a place of nostaligia. I grew up there from the age of 11 and left when I was in my late twenties and now reside a the slightly more grand version of the Garden City experiment which is Milton Keynes. <BR/><BR/>St Francis College is indeed still a private girls school. It was known locally (at least to us pubescent teenage boys) as St Fannys and had a reputation, certainly undeserved, as a latter-day St Trinians. The girls and school building with its soaring windows were the object of many an under-mature fantasy. Nowadays it no doubt prompts thoughts of a girls-only Hogwarts as there is more than a passing resemblance on a dark winter's night.<BR/><BR/>The school building itself sits on a road which contains some of the most grandiose and spectacular examples of Letchworth's fairly unique and idiosyncratic architecture of the original Garden City pioneer's period. If you family had anything to do with it then you have a right to be proud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-7171325378902322592007-09-02T06:44:00.000+01:002007-09-02T06:44:00.000+01:00Chris...Don't worry about them (unless you mean th...Chris...Don't worry about them (unless you mean the buildings they knocked down to build a supermarket)!Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-26642064179615545692007-09-02T06:41:00.000+01:002007-09-02T06:41:00.000+01:00Idle...let's hope they do anyway!Did you notice th...Idle...let's hope they do anyway!<BR/><BR/>Did you notice the way the site was set up? Imagine the Health and Safety anoraks going there today.Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-4551702367048402262007-09-02T06:39:00.000+01:002007-09-02T06:39:00.000+01:00Trubes; thanks!It was founded as, and still is St ...Trubes; thanks!<BR/><BR/>It was founded as, and still is St Francis College for Girls. Its an independent college.<BR/><BR/>What I wanted to find was a plaque or something, but no luck!Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-83282994627000900102007-09-01T21:09:00.000+01:002007-09-01T21:09:00.000+01:00That's fantastic! Trouble with buildings from my ...That's fantastic! Trouble with buildings from my past is... they've all been demolished.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697792053955724924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-27322810219022918532007-09-01T12:08:00.000+01:002007-09-01T12:08:00.000+01:00It is indeed a great thing to witness your family'...It is indeed a great thing to witness your family's erections some 80 years on.<BR/><BR/>Obviously when Scrobs & Sons built something, it stayed built.idlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09938525768274527540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951383775805178587.post-53309820758816207432007-09-01T10:45:00.000+01:002007-09-01T10:45:00.000+01:00Hi Scobs: What an interesting story! Is this build...Hi Scobs: What an interesting story! Is this building still a girl`s school or has it been converted into apartments or similar?Trubeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com