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Category Archives: Sharing Memories
My Granny Geake Would Have Been 100 Today
18TH SEPTEMBER What a celebration we would have had if my Granny (Phyllis Grace Geake, nee Weaver) was still with us as she would have been 100 years old today. This is a photo of her celebrating her 80th birthday. … Continue reading
Remembering My Hilarious Granny On Her Birthday
1ST SEPTEMBER My Granny Hibbitt (Ivy Alice Hibbitt, nee Dando) was born on 1st September 1904 above a sweet and tobacconist shop called the Golden Butterfly in Saffron Walden in Essex. After moving to Plymouth with her family, she attended … Continue reading
Remembering Grandpa’s Birthday
1ST DECEMBER My Grandpa Hibbitt was born on this day, 1st December, in 1898. Gosh, it’s hard to equate that I knew someone who was born in the 19th century! His father was a coastguard serving at Soldier’s Point near … Continue reading
Tavistock Goose Fair – Then And Now!
Last week, Harvey, my parents and I went to Tavistock Goose Fair, the annual fair which dates back to the 12th century. This reminded me of the time when we took my gran, Phyllis Grace Geake, nee Weaver, to the … Continue reading
Remembering Grandpa Hibbitt. What Was The Name Of Those Biscuits?
8TH OCTOBER Today is the 43rd anniversary of my Grandpa Hibbitt’s passing so I thought I’d post this slide of my grandparents, taken in the 1930’s, together with some memories I have of him. Grandpa was called Charles but was … Continue reading
Cine Footage Of Anne Hibbitt’s Christening Day
My grandparents and parents used to use a cine camera before and after I was born and my Grandpa Geake recorded the films onto video tape in the early 1990’s. Since then they’ve been transferred to DVD and converted to … Continue reading
Those Elevenses Moments
When I was a girl, I would sometimes go to Tavistock in Devon during the school holidays to stay with my grandparents, William Hellyer Geake and Phyllis Grace Geake (nee Weaver). Grandpa would often be at work so I’d be … Continue reading
Great-Grandfather’s Wartime Story Is Published
Exciting news! I was recently invited to write a few articles about my family history research for the Discover Your History magazine, a brand new publication due to be launched on 5th September. Published each month, the magazine will focus … Continue reading
Messing About On The Water
My Grandpa Hibbitt (Charles George Hibbitt) used to have a boat, a small cabin cruiser, and we spent many hours as a family on the Kingsbridge/Salcombe Estuary. He kept the boat at Frogmore Creek, a short drive from his and … Continue reading
Postman Spoils Long-Awaited WW2 Homecoming
I remember my Gran (Phyllis Grace Geake, nee Weaver) once telling me what happened the day my Grandpa (William Hellyer Geake) arrived home from the second world war, having been away for four years. It was fairly early in the … Continue reading