How goods your memory ?

[j.sabourn]

#29 That be an Irish one John and was the Mayflower. JS

[j.sabourn]

#28 I may have asked before, but when I saw the name had to check on the background but doesn’t match up as 2 years too young .But went to school with a Donald Young and also worked for his fathers paper shop. Later in life after marriage lived 4 doors down from him in West Monkseaton. However he taught carpentry at some school. His younger brother same age as you however went from apprentice to master in Bankline . On another ship during the Falklands war must have left Bankline and went down with the fleet his designation being navigator. died about 1985 up the Persian Gulf on the deck of a supply vessel with a heart attack. The family isn’t any relation to you is it ? Being you know Ryton brought it to mind . Cheers JS.

[Colin Wood]

WE were not allowed to spend silver3d in our family, as all collected to go in Xmas pudding. My older sister ended up with about 20.

[happy daze john in oz]

Money in Christmas Puddings was banned in our house many years ago when gran broke her top plate trying to eat one.
But they were not the silver ones, just the eight sided brass ones, not sure how she got it into her mouth in one go.