Skateboarding in Amsterdam

My trip to Italy and Amsterdam in late November 2001.

I traveled to Amsterdam and Italy in November of 2001 to visit my girlfriend Jessica. I drove from Providence, RI where I was a student at Brown University, then flew from Boston to Amsterdam, then to Rome. I stayed in Rome for one night and then took a train to Florence, where I stayed for one week, including Thanksgiving. I then took a train to Bologna and flew back to Amsterdam for a 15 hour layover, then a plane back Boston, and lastly a bus to Providence. I traveled to and from Europe with a longtime friend Mike, we had been schooling together since five years old. His girlfriend, also a Brown student, was studying Latin in Rome, while mine, a graduate of Tufts University was studying Art History in Florence. Mike was studying Neuroscience, and myself the History of Science. All of us students and friends made for an amazing trip. We ate at many restaurants, my self being Italian, appreciated much of the food and wine. I remember visiting the History of Science Museum in Florence and being blown away. They have Galileo's middle figure in a glass case and the largest armillary sphere I think I'll ever see. Their chemistry and medical equipment collections are superbly kept, well organized, and displayed beautifully. Most of all there are four floors, so much I spent an entire day and went back the next to finish up. My girlfriend looked amazing, just brilliantly glowing about our time together. We visited many museums and galleries, as well as the ruins at Fiesole outside Florence. Everywhere I went the sentiment of 9/11 pervaded my interactions. So few people flying made plane tickets very inexpensive (I paid less than $300 USD for my round trip flight). In a way, the whole world was American. 9/11 had been witnessed in real time around the world, everyone felt they had experienced it together, and that showed in my interactions. Indeed, many of the places I visited had televisions with images of 9/11 flashing across the screen. It's hard to imagine now how fresh it lingered in out memories just two short months later. When my trip concluded, Mike and myself flew back to Amsterdam on our way home to New England. We had time to see downtown, visit some cafes, do some quick shopping for friends and relatives back home, get lost for awhile and head back to the airport. Along the way he shot this photograph of me skateboarding. I had skated a little here and there in Rome, Florence, and Bologna but had little time to find good terrain and didn't take any photos of me on my board. When I realized this I told Mike to take one of me on the skateboard and this is what came out. I don't know why I did that particular move, but I like the way the photo came out and have cherished it ever since he emailed me a copy and gave me a printed and framed one before I left Rhode Island for California in 2003.

Poem, Nora O'Neill

Love or Fun?

Is this poem Sam having fun; or is it a memory of a former love?

My Mother, Dora Elizabeth Fairman

Marriage between D. Fairman, QARANC & C. Briggs WO1 RE. Bangalore India

In the photo , my mother is the nurse in the second row 3rd from the right. taken before her wedding. After her marriage she was forced to leave the Army

Wedding Day for Dora Fairman & Charles Briggs

My father, Charles Cyril Briggs was a WO1 in the Royal Engineers serving in India during the WW2, where he met my mother, Dora Elizabeth Fairman who was a nurse.

My parents courted, "square tacked" was Dad's description, for 3 years, but he only proposed when she was going to be posted home. They were engaged for 3 weeks and she insisted that he buy her an engagement ring !

Sam Pulman, Forum Echoes (Manchester)

Forum Echoes was published in 1910 by Sam Pulman, my ancestor. Fortunately and luckily I hold a copy, parts of which I would like to share.

There are 25 reports of discussions, and 36 personal accounts-all in poetry form-in this book.

Also there are portraits of 32 speakers in the forum, names are listed at the bottom of these images.

If you would like a particular detail on one of the people reported in the Forum, let mmalcolmm know at .......mmalcolmm73@googlemail.com

More poems of Sam's personal life can be added later. Any requests?

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Sam recounts many walks with the "Ancoats ramblers". Ancoats, at the time-1910, consisted of many rows of back to back slums, home to the mill workers. The area also became known as "Little Italy."

Does this fit the picture? The appearance of the ramblers does not suggest slums.

Please let me know if you recognise a face.

Wishful thinking!! Could that be Bertha with her mother on the front row?

Hints/clues (possibly). 1. The lady does not look unlike Elizabeth. 2. We know Sam's brother mentioned condolences received from the ramblers and field interest groups. 3. The timing is right considering publication of the two books. 4. Sam with his job would have access to a camera in 1890's. Wouldn't it be nice to know?

People mentioned include-(a one-word description is usually included). The poem does not print the whole name. Mmalcolmm has filled in the spaces. Take a look at the original . Pulman(cognitive), Walker(leader), Sq-re, H-dd-n(classic featured), Mrs. Wallis, Ridgway(from Sale), Humphrys(placid), Shaw(of mildest manners), Mr n Mrs Peks(spruce, accomplished), Plant,McDonald(gay), Cranshaw, and sisters: Walker, T-n-r, Graham, Lomax, Jones, Scales.

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Bertha is buried just along from the family home.

Her gravestone is in the southern cemetry.

The inscription takes the first four lines of the second verse from "In Memoriam".--"O she was young.........."

Only Bertha was buried here, although the grave was made for two.

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.A poem, very touching, which shows the love and feeling of the daughter lost in the fire.

Probable written soon after her death.

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"In Memoriam."

Verse devoted to his daughter, Bertha. One can only guess at the feelings of the family, Elizabeth, Sam and Oliver. What a ghastly accident to happen in the bathroom.

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Walkern National School

Historic information on Walkern National School

The picture is a copy of the plans for the extension to Walkern Village School in 1877

The Osbourne's Early Married Life

Detailed Accounts from the Osbourne Family Archives regarding their 1939 touring honeymoon, their first furniture purchases and an inventory of the household contents.

When Mr. and Mrs. Osbourne were married in July, 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War,

they embarked on a touring honeymoon and their outgoings for the honeymoon were meticulously recorded by Mr. Osbourne and that social document has been kept in the family archives, together with records of expenditure etc. during the first few months of their marriage. Details of these are given

below:-

HONEYMOON -

Hire of Car £1. 0. 0

HOTELS

Lygon Arms £4. 5.11

Devonshire Arms £1. 0.10

UIlswater £8.17. 6

Craven Arms £1. 3. 0

Luttrell Arms £1.10.11

New Inn £2. 5. 0

Seymour £1.13.11

Manor £1.14. 4

Petrol - 35 galls.@ 1/7 (1493

miles)!!! £1.16.11

Tips say £2. 0. 0

Odds and Ends £5.11. 8

Total cost of Honeymoon £33. 0. 0

SUMMARY OF INVOICE FROM WARING & GILLOW FOR NEW FURNITURE

P.L.Osbourne 12th June, 1939

1 4' Light Walnut Wardrobe,

Dressing Table to match and

fitted Gent's Wardrobe to match £44. 5. 0

4'6" Walnut bedstead £8. 8. 0

A"Stanhope" settee and

2 easy chairs £25.15.0

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1939 INVENTORY OF HOUSE CONTENTS AT 11 ULVERSTON ROAD, LONDON E.17

(perhaps compiled in case of possible bomb damage)

Maples Dining Room suite £42. 4. 0

Bedroom suite £52.13. 0

Lounge suite £25.15. 0

Slumberland mattress £8. 8. 0

Slumberland base £2.17. 0

Bedroom stool & chairs £5. 7. 6

Curtains (kitchen & bathroom) 8/7d

Rug 16/11d

Carpet and felt £ 9. 9. 0

Blankets £5.13. 5

Pillows 15/2d

Stair clips & screws 8/4d

Tools - Screwdriver, gimlet and

ruler 3/-d

Mirror, hallstand, fire irons, coal

box, medicine cabinet £7.15. 3

Curtains, bedspread and

eiderdowns £8.11. 9

Ironmongery - pail, broom,

brush, dustpan, stain,

brushes, nails, etc. 4/-

Paint etc. for bathroom 7/6d

Stain 3/6d

Mappin & Webb cutlery £11. 7. 4

Door chain 2/9d

Towel rail, rawlplugs, turps. £4. 11. 0

Secotine, plate rack, soap dis,

splash plate 4/6d

Lamp shzades, wireless table,

fly swat £2. 0. 0

Saw 2/6d

A Funeral , Bangalore, India 1918

A series of photos of a funeral party and burning

A T Scrivens was in India with the Army in WW1 and he took the attached in October 1918

1 - Funeral Party of dead woman on way to place of burning. The pot carried by leading man contains burning manure from which the pyre will be ignited.

2 - The corpse placed near the wood on which it is to be burned, note features of woman.

3 - Building the pyre: note, all wrappings now removed from body, simply dressed in everyday clothes

4 - Brahmin repeating prayers etc. before the pyre is lighted.

5 - Burning! Brooks took this in order that Dick Wort might be in it. Its quite a good photo of Dick.

6 - The result! No remarks needed. You'll probably make lots yourself!

The Juggernaut, Bangalore , India May 1918

Photos of The Juggernaut taken April or May 1918 Ulsoor, Bangalore, India.

A T Scrivens photos while in India with the army in WW1