Memories are made of this

By Esther

A story of strength,sadness,regret but always great pride that is difficult to beleive really happened. It did!

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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Sat, 01 Jun 2013

Maxine Line. Mum came from Earls Barton and dad from Finedon. He lived in one of the terrace house on the green opposite the Infant School and later they moved to Eastfield Crescent.
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A Copper's lot

By Esther on Tue, 23 Apr 2013

When they filmed the police series Hunter's Walk...
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A house is nothing whilst a home is everything.

By Esther on Fri, 05 Jul 2013

A home is full of books,pictures,clutter that we have accumulated over the years.
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All these skills lost now

By Esther on Tue, 28 May 2013

The Process of a Shoe
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Another memory

By Esther on Tue, 28 May 2013

Canon John P BeaumontVicar of Finedon
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Another story;another life!

By Esther on Fri, 26 Apr 2013

I always remember the epitaph on someone's grave "He hath done what he could" this is what I would like as an epitaph on my gravestone
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Anyone for belly dancing?

By Esther on Sun, 02 Jun 2013

Belly Dancing in Finedon.
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Charlie Snape

By Esther on Fri, 24 Aug 2012

It seemed to nice to be in bed so she wasn't. Wi fit done and dusted she was off on her travels or rather her walk with their newly acquired re-homed dog Henry.
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Charlie Snape

By Esther on Sat, 25 Aug 2012

Sybil had left school at fifteen. She was employed in a shoe factory office at the other end of her town.
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Charlie Snape

By Esther on Fri, 07 Sep 2012

Sybil smiled as she sat on the inter-city in search of her pocketful of dreams and family history;gone with a sneeze and a slam of the front door back in 1959.
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Charlie Snape

By Esther on Thu, 23 Aug 2012

Many things broke Charlie's heart in two; he wouldn't know where to start....but then neither would his wife!
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Charlie Snape

By Esther on Sat, 25 Aug 2012

A predicted week-end of rain meant one thing... Bank Holiday!Henry looked up at his mistress with his melting brown eyes wagging his tail expectantly and then slunk back to his basket.
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Chicken's; stuffed in battery cages

By Esther on Thu, 02 May 2013

Dead, but still kicking!
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Mon, 27 May 2013

Mrs Jones In 1947 I came from Atherton Warwickshire and lived in Eastfield Crescent then we later moved into Allen Road.
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By Esther on Thu, 30 May 2013

Margaret & Ted Boddington Both Margaret and Ted were very special to us all providing exceptional kindness and support when Catherine, James and Caroline were young children.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Sat, 01 Jun 2013

Melanie Henson I came to England in June 1994 having lived in South Africa. I grew up in Estcort which is two hours inland and towards the mountains.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Wed, 29 May 2013

John Bailey
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By Esther on Thu, 30 May 2013

John Wells
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By Esther on Sat, 01 Jun 2013

Caroline and Paul Hanson We lived in Finedon for seventeen years and we came from Barton Seagrave and Irchester after we married aiming for a fresh start. We saw our house and bought it.
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By Esther on Wed, 29 May 2013

Audrey Ellis (Nesbitt) My grandmother May Hopkins was born here in May 1892. My paternal grandfather James Nesbitt was born in 1900 at Sunderland and grand mother Lucy Esther Nairne also in 1900.
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My daughter

By Esther on Sun, 02 Jun 2013

Caroline Ellis born June 15th 1979
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My youngest contributor brings Memories to a natural conclusion.

By Esther on Sun, 02 Jun 2013

Jade Freeman
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Grandad won the Military Medal and was in The Green Howard's Regiment

By Esther on Tue, 14 May 2013

I have memories of our milkman coming round with his horse and cart
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I still didn't have the answer

By Esther on Wed, 24 Apr 2013

It had been decades since my lovely mum had felt her way along the street.
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iMemories are made of this

By Esther on Tue, 16 Apr 2013

I served on H.M.S. Vimmy, a destroyer that had actually been used in the First World War and I joined in 1942.
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It wasn't a ordinary day in our house.....catch-up

By Esther on Tue, 23 Apr 2013

The dog and the cat might disagree whilst the braille clock ticked away.
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It wasn't the fact that mum and dad were both blind that created poverty but..

By Esther on Sun, 28 Apr 2013

Everyone needs love.
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Memories

By Esther on Mon, 01 Apr 2013

iIt didn't strike a chord with me that our destiny would ever end; forever journeys on bus or train to see that golden world as I felt it was just then.
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Memories

By Esther on Tue, 02 Apr 2013

Dee believed, as she continued to write her true story down, that thousands of people would continue to pocket beautiful memories about their treasured days at nearby Wicksteeds Park.
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Memories

By Esther on Wed, 03 Apr 2013

Yesterday had gone in a blink of the eye; no-one could deny nor defy the passing of time from birth through to dust in allotted years.
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Memories

By Esther on Wed, 03 Apr 2013

Jean B I was born at a terrace house in Rock Road in 1926. Her husband was also born in the same Road.
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Memories

By Esther on Thu, 04 Apr 2013

I remember a German bomber flying over us!
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Wed, 24 Apr 2013

I just missed a caning at school after writing a essay about going to visit my father who worked at Finedon sewerage farm; they didn't beleive me.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Thu, 25 Apr 2013

How about you sharing your own story with me?
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Thu, 25 Apr 2013

I remember the torchlight parade around the town.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Mon, 01 Apr 2013

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By Esther on Sat, 06 Apr 2013

I still see the following lady, but now only in my minds eye, as I walk past her house on Thrapston Road. I smile as I think of her, sat on her chair, looking out of her bay window.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Thu, 04 Apr 2013

I'm glad I commenced interviewing the residents of a small town in Finedon; it doesn't feel like six years since I began my project as a scribe
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Mon, 01 Apr 2013

I named him after you Dad
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Thu, 04 Apr 2013

We saved up oxo cube cartons in order to buy a football.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Sat, 13 Apr 2013

He used to carry a red flag to stop the traffic when a train came.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Sun, 07 Apr 2013

The scientific technical centre was founded by General De Gaulle to undertake tropical research work such as the cure of diseases.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Sun, 14 Apr 2013

Audrey Ellis (Nesbitt) My grandmother May Hopkins was born here in May 1892. My paternal grandfather James Nesbitt was born in 1900 at Sunderland and grand mother Lucy Esther Nairne also in 1900.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Sat, 13 Apr 2013

I wonder if the world of Jean, the contributor who kindly became my precious guinea pig, would have thought our brave new world of 2013 be a better place to be than her world.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Wed, 17 Apr 2013

I think one of our undertaker's used to do his carpentry in his back garden
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Sun, 14 Apr 2013

During the war I was a member of the Women's Land Army
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Wed, 10 Apr 2013

Hobby Boddington I was born in Rock Road Finedon. I had four sisters Nellie, Phyllis, Linda Beryl and a brother Ted.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Mon, 08 Apr 2013

Born Nov 25th 1915 Kit Joyce
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Wed, 17 Apr 2013

My mum helped the nurse to deliver babies.
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By Esther on Sat, 13 Apr 2013

Edna Sherwood I moved here when I was thirteen and I am eighty-three now. My father was Finedon born and bred and he wanted to come back to Finedon. Our mother sadly died when I was eight.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Mon, 15 Apr 2013

I remember when the bomb was dropped on Thrapston Road.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Fri, 17 May 2013

Looking at your photograph the other day; I thought about you. A wedding day shot, with you and mum standing on the Registry Office Steps in London. No flowers, or buttonholes in sight.
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Thu, 18 Apr 2013

Christmas 1942
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Tue, 09 Apr 2013

He was the Town Cryer!
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Mon, 15 Apr 2013

We were allowed to have three weeks off of work to pick potatoes for the war effort.
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Memories from my town

By Esther on Wed, 03 Apr 2013

HOW IT ALL STARTED
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Memories from my town; voices from the past

By Esther on Fri, 05 Apr 2013

I interviewed, over approx five years many people from my town; because I couldn't find any of my lost paternal family.
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My early life

By Esther on Thu, 18 Apr 2013

We ate around a formica table; one chair leg missing when our carpentry hungry father, blind as long as I could remember,had accidentally sawn it in two.
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Searching; fifty shades of sight

By Esther on Fri, 03 May 2013

How my new novel, Searching, fifty shades of sight begins.
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Searching; fifty shades of sight

By Esther on Fri, 03 May 2013

If you had agreed to a guide dog, as your Ma and Pa in Coventry wanted you to do, you wouldn't have fallen onto the underground line would you James?
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I'll never forget the turning point

By Esther on Tue, 20 Mar 2012

We ran down Swindon Close where not so many months before The Daily MIrror had been taking photo's of us all.
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By Esther on Sun, 25 Mar 2012

Being blind didn’t make you nice
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Memories are made of this

By Esther on Tue, 27 Mar 2012

Why?
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By Esther on Wed, 28 Mar 2012

Junior school include sitting at the back of the class-room, where she had always made a bee-line for. Squashed in like jelly-beans facing anything but a grand-day out.
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By Esther on Wed, 28 Mar 2012

A visit to the BBC in London
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By Esther on Wed, 28 Mar 2012

Where was her dad’s family?
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By Esther on Thu, 29 Mar 2012

There were lovely things happening in her town. It wasn't all doom and gloom.
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By Esther on Thu, 29 Mar 2012

The swinging sixties
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By Esther on Thu, 29 Mar 2012

Picture this
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By Esther on Fri, 30 Mar 2012

Esther so wished that her mum could see the changing seasons. See snowflakes fall from the sky, a rainbow that arched their world or even the size of a elephant.
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By Esther on Fri, 30 Mar 2012

Was this it then?
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By Esther on Sat, 31 Mar 2012

An excursion
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By Esther on Sat, 31 Mar 2012

Outsiders
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By Esther on Sat, 31 Mar 2012

Just where H.E. Bates used to live
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By Esther on Sun, 01 Apr 2012

So time moved on in Esthers little town called Stanton.
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By Esther on Sun, 01 Apr 2012

At the end of the dance he had kissed her; she forgot about his drainpipe trousers and bright odd coloured socks on his feet.
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By Esther on Sun, 01 Apr 2012

Her wedding day
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By Esther on Mon, 02 Apr 2012

Although the years had now turned her from child to young woman she still thought of her dad as well as her lost family.
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By Esther on Tue, 03 Apr 2012

Then the thunder came once again!
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By Esther on Tue, 03 Apr 2012

Those we love we want to live on forever. Sorrow
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By Esther on Tue, 03 Apr 2012

Seven years later and how could she have done it?
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By Esther on Wed, 04 Apr 2012

Her sad duty done
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By Esther on Wed, 04 Apr 2012

It was only her rocking shair that stayed still!
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By Esther on Wed, 04 Apr 2012

She learnt that she was not stupid nor thick; just crazily mad!
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By Esther on Thu, 05 Apr 2012

'Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.! Aldous Huxley 1894-1963.
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By Esther on Thu, 05 Apr 2012

'Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.! Aldous Huxley 1894-1963.
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By Esther on Thu, 05 Apr 2012

Hell had hung heavily; now was the time to try to move on and find her lost family!
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By Esther on Mon, 09 Apr 2012

She had almost given up hope of finding her own family; so why not record the history of the town where she had lived since a child....but
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By Esther on Mon, 09 Apr 2012

Then there came another of those sad days when Esther learnt that nothing stays the same forever..
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By Esther on Mon, 09 Apr 2012

And she typed 'Hello Dad'
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By Esther on Tue, 10 Apr 2012

There on the crossing was a blind man with a stick...
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By Esther on Tue, 10 Apr 2012

They turned away from the grave and Esther Esther felt happy, but also deeply sad and then once or twice turned and looked back at her past, knowing that memories were everything; good as well as bad!
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By Esther on Tue, 10 Apr 2012

Again she thought of her fathers words;it was better to try and fail than to never try at all!
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By Esther on Wed, 11 Apr 2012

Esther still sought the precious photo taken by the Daily Mirror.......where might that be?
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By Esther on Wed, 11 Apr 2012

He lifted the lid of his braile watch
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Memories are made of this.... where it all started.

By Esther on Wed, 11 Apr 2012

Turning the braile pages back.
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By Esther on Sun, 15 Apr 2012

It's obvious that you haven't talked this barmy idea through-two blind folk talking of marriage, I have never heard the like!"
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By Esther on Sun, 15 Apr 2012

So he left, sadly, his two younger sisters and parents in Coventry....barely having time to adjust to his total loss of sight...and moved to Coventry....with only his case......and....
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By Esther on Mon, 16 Apr 2012

Laura now really needed courage didn't she?
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By Esther on Mon, 16 Apr 2012

Their new home
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By Esther on Mon, 16 Apr 2012

A New Life “Come on, honey. You know you can do it. This is special. What you have been looking forward to for months...and what a battle by all accounts!”
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By Esther on Tue, 17 Apr 2012

Trips to Southend
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By Esther on Tue, 17 Apr 2012

Not for one moment could she imagine how life might change
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By Esther on Wed, 18 Apr 2012

When The Daily Mirror and Photographer visted Swindon Close Harold Hill Romford.
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By Esther on Wed, 18 Apr 2012

The doctors at Harold Wood hospital had just told her that......
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By Esther on Wed, 18 Apr 2012

Breaking in two
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By Esther on Thu, 19 Apr 2012

Woolworths
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By Esther on Fri, 20 Apr 2012

Happy Memories.......runner up story printed in Prima magazine
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By Esther on Tue, 24 Apr 2012

She was stunned with what she saw
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By Esther on Wed, 25 Apr 2012

"A German plane was indeed flying very low; right alongside Finedon Hall and near to our cottage in Mill lane".
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By Esther on Thu, 26 Apr 2012

In came a blind man,nothing like Esther's dad, who would smash their difficult world apart
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By Esther on Thu, 26 Apr 2012

He does sound lovely in all his braille letters....
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By Esther on Fri, 27 Apr 2012

Why should they want, or need, another daddy as if you could pick one from the sweetie counter at Woolworth's and..
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By Esther on Fri, 27 Apr 2012

Glass eye replacement
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By Esther on Fri, 27 Apr 2012

Being blind didn't make you nice;everyone knew that...didn't they?
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By Esther on Sat, 28 Apr 2012

If only religion had been the tool to lift him out of the hole he had dragged them all into, yet a million ringing of bells, sweeping of clerics' cloaks and cloying incesnse wasn't sadly......
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By Esther on Sat, 28 Apr 2012

So there was happiness and music as well as fun in their little town.
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By Esther on Sat, 28 Apr 2012

Some dandelions stood in a milk bottle in the centre of their table, trying to make their own world normal.
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By Esther on Sun, 29 Apr 2012

He beats his guide dog....
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By Esther on Sun, 29 Apr 2012

He slid deeper into his own insanity whilst all Esther could do was to watch.
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By Esther on Sun, 29 Apr 2012

Later, streams of light shone down as Esther stood in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, she thought of those losses so much bigger than hers might....
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By Esther on Mon, 30 Apr 2012

Timmy put to sleep One of the saddest days was the day Esther was forced to have her beloved cat put to sleep.
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By Esther on Mon, 30 Apr 2012

Was this it then?
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By Esther on Mon, 30 Apr 2012

Where a micro-phone and a braille book lay
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By Esther on Tue, 01 May 2012

You have to remember how he was forced to have both eyes removed as a child.
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By Esther on Tue, 01 May 2012

Why did she give her hard earned round money to him on a non-return basis she wondered.
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By Esther on Tue, 01 May 2012

"You don't have to stay in the gutter"
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By Esther on Wed, 02 May 2012

A time to change
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By Esther on Wed, 02 May 2012

She had almost forgotten meeting the Duke of Bedford
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By Esther on Thu, 03 May 2012

Her emotions were mixed with the gruel of life as her mum's soggy fruit cake had been!
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By Esther on Thu, 03 May 2012

A new beginning
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By Esther on Thu, 03 May 2012

She had said with tears in her eyes,as he sat there alone at the helm of his house "If you don't beleive me why not ring the hospice".
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By Esther on Fri, 04 May 2012

Soon with a brighter and happier story to share but sadly first there is this
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The world outside kept turning
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Catching up
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By Esther on Sat, 05 May 2012

Why live with boundaries and yesterdays fears?
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By Esther on Sat, 05 May 2012

She had self-published then sold over two-thousand books; what a grand feeling that had been!
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By Esther on Sun, 06 May 2012

At last she had found her paternal family from decades ago!
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By Esther on Sun, 06 May 2012

There on the crossing was a blind man with a stick!
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By Esther on Mon, 07 May 2012

The most terrifying fear had been conquered; but she wouldn't be doing it again....unless there was a gun at her head!
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By Esther on Mon, 07 May 2012

Memories; the most important possession we can have-without it where might we all be.
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I just stepped outside my door

By Esther on Sat, 02 Jun 2012

There was an axe on the bed
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Memories that would live forever

By Esther on Sun, 03 Jun 2012

she talked about huge rats
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The dead don't leave us

By Esther on Mon, 04 Jun 2012

My yesterday world of today
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In my somewhere town

By Esther on Tue, 05 Jun 2012

His teacher wouldn't get away with that now
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By Esther on Tue, 05 Jun 2012

We were really afraid that the gas works at the back of us would be hit and that half of finedon would have gone up.
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By Esther on Wed, 06 Jun 2012

On Monday evening I will be joining Bill and Liz, along with a few work mates,to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
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The world of Charlie Snape

By Esther on Wed, 22 Aug 2012

Charlie Snape has been fishing today. The fish don't mind if he hasn't visited a barbers in over forty years or that he just 'splashes his cash' on new underwear.
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Sybil Snape had a life to

By Esther on Thu, 23 Aug 2012

If the latter part of Sybil's day ran as smoothly then she would have little to complain about.
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So the Snapes story continued

By Esther on Mon, 27 Aug 2012

Standing on the platform at Wellingborough Station Sybil knew that life would never be perfect; but it was still good!
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It's a risk looking for lost family

By Esther on Wed, 05 Sep 2012

As blind people they had been forced to elope.
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Here she was on another train

By Esther on Wed, 05 Sep 2012

Here she was on another train; this time to London to meet her other Aunt who worked as a Casting Director on The Bill.
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Does life change

By Esther on Thu, 06 Sep 2012

It had been a tight world and, as a child, it seemed constant. Whether the sun shone or rain belted their broken windows nothing inside their house ever changed.
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The truth is all memory is fiction

By Esther on Fri, 07 Sep 2012

She only remember what she wanted to remember. Meeting a new book, it is said, is like meeting a new person or in her case a whole new family.
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Writing my true story was tough but....

By Esther on Tue, 05 Feb 2013

I've been trapped in a plastic swan at Woburn
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I've hit the big money

By Esther on Wed, 06 Feb 2013

It was there, in front of me, not something I could ever have expected; a life changing moment indeed!
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Love

By Esther on Sun, 10 Feb 2013

Records, spin in wild abandon, slipped from quiet places. Elvis or Buddy to delight Car-boot special finds at summer jaunts where unwanted love is found winters drum a heavy sum
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Nobody knows

By Esther on Mon, 11 Feb 2013

How can we say we care
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Kindle well your image

By Esther on Tue, 12 Feb 2013

to find the soul inside
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Titchmarsh on the telly

By Esther on Wed, 13 Feb 2013

Titchmarsh on the telly!
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate 18

My inspiration was always there

By Esther on Sat, 16 Feb 2013

Others had sight because of them
Unclassified
Story
Certificate 18

Memories are made of these

By Esther on Sun, 17 Feb 2013

Family history is important to us all
Autobiography
Biography
Certificate 18

Life as it is

By Esther on Fri, 22 Mar 2013

he stood there quietly with his hands in his pockets; close to his self -built shed as well as the other that was about to collapse into the neighbours garden.
Humour
Story
Certificate 18

Why mum was born blind

By Esther on Sun, 14 Apr 2013

As we walked the lane where butterflies wafted she tol d me the reason why her pallette was black. Her sockets so red it hadn't been said "Why can't you see the branch of the tree?
Horror
Poem
Certificate 18

Voices now and then

By Esther on Thu, 18 Apr 2013

Memories of Finedon and how it began and grew into the title 'Voices Now And Then.
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 18

Voices Now And Then

By Esther on Fri, 19 Apr 2013

We were surrounder by airfields during the war and I clearly remember a Dornier being hit over the grove by spitfires and it went down later in Thrapston Road.
Other Non-fiction
Story
Certificate 18

Woolworth's

By Esther on Tue, 30 Apr 2013

Woolworths.
Love
Story
Certificate 18