BAND OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS, ALDERSHOT where I was in 1957
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My father, Alfred Henry Watkins sent this post card from Usk to my mother, Alison Mary Lapham, in Birmingham in about 1929
"Grey West" Pilning Gloucestershire: my maternal grandfather's home in 1957 and 2005
A TOUR THROUGH MONMOUTHSHIRE AND WALES Made in the Months of JUNE, and JULY, 1774. And in the Months of JUNE children, JULY, and AUGUST, 1777 By HENRY PENRUDDOCKE WYNDHAM SECOND EDITION MM. DCC. LXXXI This book was purchased by my grandfather, Alfred Henry Watkins, some time before 1935 and someone has written in pencil "16 beautiful plates by Grimm 12/6". I inherited it in 1953 I started typing it into a text document in March 2000 this is just the start - to be continued Wales 1774 or 1777 details from the engravings the route of the journey to Monmouthshire and Wales: Preface to Monmouthshire and Wales chapter one Monmouthshire and Wales pages 1 to 31
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which is my mother's maiden name
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