Chapter 22 - The Vesper Bell and Patrick O’Hagan – down ol’ Ladywood way Writing this memoir at the age of 63, I come to realise that I have not travelled extensively in my life, though having said that I can add India, Australia, a 3-night train journey...
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Chapter 22 - The Vesper Bell and Patrick O’Hagan – down ol’ Ladywood way Writing this memoir at the age of 63, I come to realise that I have not travelled extensively in my life, though having said that I can add India, Australia, a 3-night train journey from Paris to Athens and my experience of being down-and-out in West Berlin to a bucket list which I never actually set out to pen. Neither have I ever lived outside of Birmingham, though I have moved around the city. But to reword George Harrison once again, without going out of my door I have seen many things on earth, and this applies to my journeys back through time via family history, through which I feel I have seen the world through the eyes of ancestors and family members. The past is indeed a foreign land, travels across which (globally and locally) have brought me rich learning, broadening my mind in these investigative voyages of discovery. Aunty Kath’s husband Harry Robinson was born in his family’s pub, the Vesper Bell in
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