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My Dad
Jack Halstead. 1943 - 29y
On 4th July 1914 my Dad, Jack Halstead, was born in Middleton, Lancashire to Henry and Eliza Halstead. He had an older sister called Ida. His Dad, Henry, was a Master Butcher with ...
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Henry Halstead
Born in Todmorden, Yorkshire West Riding, Henry Halstead was by trade a Master Butcher who eventually had approximately 14 shops over the North West of England (from Todmorden, through Bolton, Bury, Preston and Formby).
He ...
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Random Recollections throughout my childhood
We lived at 20 Boundary Drive from very young. This is a picture of the three of us in David's playpen in the back garden. Of course, we were older and bigger so we could climb in and out, David was not very happy about this!
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12/31/2011 | |
Max in Verbier 2010
We went to Verbier in Switzerland for a week in 2010 and it was an amazing holiday. We went there to mountain bike with friends. On the last day, I crashed my mountain bike doing a Table Top Jump. As I came over, my front wheel ...
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2010 | |
Luke's Xmas and New Year in Lech, Austria
We left Liverpool on Christmas Eve for Austria. Me, Max, Mum and Dad. Our hotel was really cosy and comfy and the food was fabulous, especially the spare ribs! Mum had thought they were going to be titchy when I ordered ...
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Graduating etc
I'm on the left, Gina and then Richard - my best friend at university.
In 1979 I take the entrance exam for Oxford University....and pass. They offer me 2Es and I'm in! I go up to Oxford October 1980 and start my PPE (Philosophy, ...
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| 01/10/1980
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1987
1987 has to have been the most stressful year of my life. I moved back to Liverpool, bought a house and got married. Gina had one more stress to contend with - she graduated.
After months and months of intense revision, Gina ...
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| 01/01/1987
12/31/1987 | |
paragliding the story
My love affair with paragliding began quite by chance in the summer of 1992. I was walking in Tryfan, Wales, and saw somebody ridge soaring above me. My immediate thought was, I have to do that!
Getting back to Liverpool ...
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12/31/1997 | |
Our American Holiday by Gina
Summer 2005 and it's our family's turn to go over to America to see Jonathan's brother, Dave, his wife, Tracy and son, Steve. The plan was to start at their house in Charlottesville, go on to a rental cottage at Smith Mountain ...
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End of 1996/beginning of 1997
I remember the end of 1996 and the first quarter of 1997 as being a particularly difficult time. My Mum died on Christmas Day 1996 and my Dad decided almost immediately that he would like to sell the family home and move into ...
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Mountain Biking
I took up mountain biking as a hobby after deciding to hang up my paragliding equipment. Paragliding is an extreme sport and I became increasingly less willing to take on that amount of risk after the birth of our first son. ...
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12/31/2012 | |
Christmas 1997
This Christmas was memorable to me because of the weather. It was the conservatory’s first Christmas and the weather was appalling. High winds and sheeting rain. The wind was so strong that the roof of the conservatory started ...
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| 01/01/1997
12/31/1997 | |
Wedding Memories
I’ve already covered most of the wedding news in “Is this stressful? - 1987” but I thought it deserved its own story as well.
I proposed to Gina in Newcastle in 1986. I had known I was going to propose for a while, had prepared ...
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| 01/01/1996
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