Where are you from originally and what situation took you to where you are now ?

[presta]

I had a difficult entry into this world

Me too. My mother was in labour for 63 hours before they decided to do a caesarian.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

First 19 years, lived on Merseyside, Prescot, with family. My dad worked for BICC, as I did for a year, then my dad was transferred to the Erith site in Kent, so we all moved south.

My father worked for BICC (British Incorporated Calendar Cables or Construction - unclear memory!) based at the Erith site. Used to work on electricity pylons and underground connections, etc. Used to drive a BICC van. Later became Balfour Kilpatrick and Balfour Beaty if I remember correctly.

He used to earn a huge amount of money leading an emergency response team. One year when I was 14/15 so 1970/71 he earned over £30k which was an awful lot of money then.

 

[dicko]

I’m from Grittleton, Wiltshire, my father was a pilot in the RAF we traveled the world and I ended up in Derby.

 

[Chief Broom]

Was living in Somerset, a drug dealer moved in opposite and made life hell...Got a van and a tent and a dog drove up to the Highlands and have never been back.

 

[yello]

Born in Leicester, then Lived in Enderby bought a house in Narborough then when my Fiance and I split I was forced to move into town. Been with Maz 30 years now on the edge of Glenfield.

I was Leicester born too, Wigston, but we moved to Glenfield when I was maybe 3 or 4. Then on to New Zealand. I consider myself a kiwi.

 

[Sharky]

My father worked for BICC (British Incorporated Calendar Cables or Construction - unclear memory!) based at the Erith site. Used to work on electricity pylons and underground connections, etc. Used to drive a BICC van. Later became Balfour Kilpatrick and Balfour Beaty if I remember correctly.

He used to earn a huge amount of money leading an emergency response team. One year when I was 14/15 so 1970/71 he earned over £30k which was an awful lot of money then.

BICC - British Insulated Callender's Cables

 

[Gunk]

Originally from West London but spent most of my early life in Weston Favell, Northampton, started working in Oxford in 1993, commuted for quite a few years from Northampton. Got divorced in 2000, met the current Mrs Gunk who is from Oxford, been living here now for 25 years, no intention of moving, we love it here.

 

[gbb]

I had a difficult entry into this world, hence me being born in two places! I'm registered as being born in Whalley near Clitheroe Lancashire, but I actually popped out in Accrington Lancashire. According to my late mother, I refused to come out due to umbilical cord problems, so I was rushed to 7 miles away Accrington Victoria Hospital which in those days had a fully operational maternity unit. On arrival and after some serious inducing, my mother dropped me, so technically I was born in Accrington, though on my birth certificate it has 'Clitheroe in the county of Lancashire' 🤔 🧐

In our family, dad had an identical twin (now both gone bless em). I had three brothers, two of them are identical twins, ironically one born in Huntingdon, the other, after some complications was born in Cambridge...different counties back then (and perhaps still are)

One of my twin brothers, the still surviving one, had twin children (one of those died of SIDS when around 2.


Three consecutive generations of twins in our family, thats going some...

 

[gbb]

And getting to the nitty gritty of why specifically Peterborough, we were both looking for a house (just getting married)
Nottinghamshire Council house waiting list stood then at around 2 years. Dad had already moved to Pboro and we enquired to do tge same, they gave us three sets of house keys, said 'have a look, if theres nothing you fancy, come back and we will find something else.

Crikey, imagine that nowadays...

 

[Dave7]

In our family, dad had an identical twin (now both gone bless em). I had three brothers, two of them are identical twins, ironically one born in Huntingdon, the other, after some complications was born in Cambridge...different counties back then (and perhaps still are)

One of my twin brothers, the still surviving one, had twin children (one of those died of SIDS when around 2.


Three consecutive generations of twins in our family, thats going some...

I was an identical twin. My Mum would never talk about him. About 10 years ago I did some research and found where he is buried. I went and with help from a very nice gent I found the communal plot. It was very moving.

 

[mickle]

B. Hereford
Craill Fife
Hereford
Livingstone W Lothian
Haddington E Lothian
Blantyre Malawi
Welshpool Powys
Carterton Oxon
Hereford
London
New York New York
Los Angeles
London
South Shields
Hereford
Bristol
York

 

[FrankCrank]

Reading born, raised and lived for 43 years.
Living now in Thailand for over 20 years, but enjoy annual visits here of two or three months.
Career spans engineering (fabricator/welder), electronics, IT (operator through to ops analyst), and lastly teaching English in Thailand.
Been retired now for around 15 years, and thoroughly enjoying it

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Born in Ayrshire but was moved to Lanarkshire as a you child. On leaving school I had something of a nomadic existence moving between west central Scotland, to north west England, to east central Scotland to where I am now in south west Scotland. That’s given me no real affiliation with anywhere.

Parents were complete wasters and the best decision in my life was leaving home at 17. Fortunate to get a good job when leaving school which, by a roundabout route, set me up in what became, and still is, my career. Been successful beyond my expectations, happily married (2nd time around) and planning early retirement in three years.

 

[Electric_Andy]

From Buckfast in Devon, eventually settled in Plymouth because I got a job there 17 years ago. Even though I worked abroad on and off, and in Hampshire for 4 years, I ended up settling 25 miles from home

 

[Sharky]

Reading born, raised and lived for 43 years.
Living now in Thailand for over 20 years, but enjoy annual visits here of two or three months.
Career spans engineering (fabricator/welder), electronics, IT (operator through to ops analyst), and lastly teaching English in Thailand.
Been retired now for around 15 years, and thoroughly enjoying it

My godson, in his gap year is in Thailand right now. He is having a great time and a thrilling ride on a zip wire. ........