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Home & Place

The houses, neighborhoods, and places they called home.

3 from Mum 2 from Dad

Did you ever move as a child what was that experience like?

We moved from Glasgow to Whitley Bay in Northumberland in January of 1952 when I was almost six. I had started school in Langside in September 1951 and…

Dad

Describe the places youve lived

My home town, the place where I was born and brought up, is Wolverhampton. This is an industrial town in the West Midlands area of England and had…

Mum photos

What things are most important to you in choosing a home?

We have never been very systematic or organised when it came to choosing a house. Our first home was a town house in Deep Cove in North Vancouver.…

Dad

Did you ever move as a child what was that experience like?

It was in 1948 that we moved from our home in Hanbury Crescent to what became our new home and the house where I grew up. I was…

Mum photos

What was the neighborhood you grew up in like?

When I think of where I consider I 'grew up', I think of Whitley Bay, in Northumberland. We moved there in 1952 when Dad at 37 had a…