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[cakeslice]

Hi Swiss Gill. I too went to Loreburn College on Fountain St in 1954.  Did the obligatory shorthand and typing which I didn’t really enjoy but those days young girls were expected to be secretaries and get a ‘good job’!
I passed the Local Government Entrance Exam and started work at Manchester Town Hall.  Met my husband there and we married in 1961.  My name before marriage was Claire Fitzsimmons now Ribbon. 60 years of happy marriage and dear husband died two years ago.  Perhaps we sat near to each other at the college, who knows😊
I still visit Manchester whenever I possibly can although I now live in North Yorkshire. I love Manchester and bore friends when I speak about all the ‘firsts’ that Manchester achieved.   A wonderful City, the very best!
We spent our honeymoon in Lucerne and have visited many times.  What a beautiful place to live. Regards Claire

[Babs BG]

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I also went to Loreburn College before I left England.
I was born and bred in Fallowfield, Manchester and I emigrated to Australia in 1968.
I am one of 52 grandchildren as my grandmother had lots of children.  Quite a few of my cousins emigrated after I did.
I still have a lot of cousins in England as well as in Wales and Northern Ireland and also Canada. We have all had a chance to visit each other over the years.

Babs

[Babs BG]

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[celeste]

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I also went to Loreburn College before I left England.
I was born and bred in Fallowfield, Manchester and I emigrated to Australia in 1968.
I am one of 52 grandchildren as my grandmother had lots of children.  Quite a few of my cousins emigrated after I did.
I still have a lot of cousins in England as well as in Wales and Northern Ireland and also Canada. We have all had a chance to visit each other over the years.

Babs

Welcome to the forum Babs,


My mother was also born and bred in Fallowfield


Pleased that you are posting from Australia on here.


Celeste

[Parky]

Welcome babs 

[Babs BG]

Many thanks Parky.

[Babs BG]

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[Babs BG]

Thank you for the welcome Celeste.

[Babs BG]

 

[celeste]

 


I'm liking your posts.

[celeste]

not really

[Parky]

not really

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[Babs BG]

Welcome to the forum Babs,


My mother was also born and bred in Fallowfield


Pleased that you are posting from Australia on here.


Celeste

I might have known your mother. What is her name and which road did she live in?
Babs

[celeste]

64 Derby Road,  she had three sisters,  Gwen,  Monica (changed her name from Constance )  and Eileen, an older btother George and younger one, Dennis,who died when hewas a baby.


Gwen won $13,000 on the pools and moved to Wales, Monica married Frank Thomson & had two sons, she & Frank moved to Essex,  mother's maiden name was Kathleen Robinson her 'schoolfriend was Nora Woods who pinched Leslie Adams off her.  my mother married comfortably.

[Babs BG]

Sorry, not the Gwen I knew. Luck lady winning the Pools.