Hi Sarah
No, not a Richardson. I'm a Milton on my paternal Grandmothers side. I'd love to go and have a look around. Maybe I'll get there some day soon.
I could do with a weekend break anyway.
Long handled spades etc
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Love that photo, Gilly. Looks like the view from Humphrey Head to Arnside, with Arnside Knott on the right. Is that right? We greatly like that area and often go there for day trips, about an hour's drive from here, particularly for the bird and butterfly watching. You must see a fair amount of wildlife there!
As for France, we have family in Lot-et-Garonne and Britanny, and I think I would prefer to live in the former! Where are you thinking of going?
As for France, we have family in Lot-et-Garonne and Britanny, and I think I would prefer to live in the former! Where are you thinking of going?
Monika got it in one we live at the outdoor centre , please call in if passing though we have a house in Harrogate so not always here 
Lizzie Family history is so fascinating we have a Whitby whaler on hubbies side, we have found my maternal side by far the easiest been in the same Yorkshire village since Domesday and my Mum is still there, as were oh parents until we recently lost them
as for France we are not sure until we find the right house have to admit it will be hard to find somewhere to compare with here, we used to take the caravan for at least a month in summer so have seen most of it, just love the lifestyle and pace of life plus the space we saw the total eclipse in the Moet Chandon vinyards most recent holiday was midi pyrenees but houses a bit too pricey there probably Poitou Charente or Limousin is most likely
Lizzie Family history is so fascinating we have a Whitby whaler on hubbies side, we have found my maternal side by far the easiest been in the same Yorkshire village since Domesday and my Mum is still there, as were oh parents until we recently lost them
as for France we are not sure until we find the right house have to admit it will be hard to find somewhere to compare with here, we used to take the caravan for at least a month in summer so have seen most of it, just love the lifestyle and pace of life plus the space we saw the total eclipse in the Moet Chandon vinyards most recent holiday was midi pyrenees but houses a bit too pricey there probably Poitou Charente or Limousin is most likely
Hi Gilly
I'm doing my dads side but both sides are complicated. My mums dad was married twice and my dads mum was married twice. On my mums side, her grandmother was a Dublin Catholic who married a Glaswegian Orange Man. I'm leaving them till another time.
My dads side were all involved in the greatest engineering building of the Victorian Age. They worked on the Manchester Ship Canal and the Elan Valley Dam too. I went to Elan Valley a couple of years ago and it was so moving. I was walking along the bridge that my Great Grandfather and Great Great Grandfather made the nuts and bolts for, and it's still standing today. I walked along the railway track (now disused) that my Great Uncles build and drove the engines along.
The people in the visitor centre were thrilled with me cos I was the first one they'd met who could trace backwards. I have a book about how they would have lived and now I understand my Grandmother much better. I just wish that i'd talked to her more but she died when I was 11.
It is fascinating though, and rather addictive.
I'm doing my dads side but both sides are complicated. My mums dad was married twice and my dads mum was married twice. On my mums side, her grandmother was a Dublin Catholic who married a Glaswegian Orange Man. I'm leaving them till another time.
My dads side were all involved in the greatest engineering building of the Victorian Age. They worked on the Manchester Ship Canal and the Elan Valley Dam too. I went to Elan Valley a couple of years ago and it was so moving. I was walking along the bridge that my Great Grandfather and Great Great Grandfather made the nuts and bolts for, and it's still standing today. I walked along the railway track (now disused) that my Great Uncles build and drove the engines along.
The people in the visitor centre were thrilled with me cos I was the first one they'd met who could trace backwards. I have a book about how they would have lived and now I understand my Grandmother much better. I just wish that i'd talked to her more but she died when I was 11.
It is fascinating though, and rather addictive.
Lots of love
Lizzie
Lizzie
Fascinating, Lizzie. My husband's family had a large iron foundry near Leeds and built the first cast iron railway bridge in Yorkshire in 1834 and then continued with lots of other large structures, including the roof of York station, of Leeds Corn Exchange and Norwich Textile Hall and many bridges all over the world. And the firm went bankrupt when a motorway bridge they built over the Manchester Ship Canal in 1961 collapsed and some workmen died. So your and my husband's ancestors may have known each other!
And, Gilly, likewise, do call in when you are commuting between Humphrey Head and Harrogate. Find the Embsay with Eastby Nature Reserve and we live directly opposite the entrance, with a small tortoiseshell butterfly over the door.
And, Gilly, likewise, do call in when you are commuting between Humphrey Head and Harrogate. Find the Embsay with Eastby Nature Reserve and we live directly opposite the entrance, with a small tortoiseshell butterfly over the door.