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Posted by Eileen <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Eileen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 21/3/2025, 13:50:14

Hi Norma, I have a copy of a photo of you in your garden for your 1st Holy Communion and I'd like to add it to a presentation I am doing on English Martyrs 90th anniversay. It's going to be on 1st April as the Anniversary of the opening of the church was 31st March 1935. I hope that is OK with you, can you remember the year you made your communion? I've tried to put some photos on the History of the church. We have again had a change in the parish and taken over the parish of St Robert Bellarmine as well. St Elizabeth's has also been taken over by another Indian Catholic church but a different one that Our Lady Queen of peace. So English Martyrs parish now includes both St Roberts and Queen of Peace and part of St Elizabeths. The Parish has now been renamed as Saint Josephine Bakita, she was canonised in 2000 as the first female black catholic saint in the modern era. She was chosen because she had endured slavery and Liverpool's links to Slavery.

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 21/3/2025, 17:19:39, in reply to "FAO = Norma"

Eileen think I have seen that photo,but I don't think it was taken at my first communion,Thinking back the dress I had on for first commumion had something that looked like fur on the bodies, would have been about 1943,clothes were on ration think my dress was borrowed from a relation who live in Crosby PS was I holding a bunch of flowers picked from my uncle Jims garden 79 seftom rd if it did would have been the church prossion for OUR LADY in The month of May PS my Mum lost all the family photos when she moved to live by my brother,

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Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 24/3/2025, 9:29:14, in reply to "Re: FAO = Norma"
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So very sad that Marie is not here to celebrate

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Posted by Eileen <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Eileen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 22/3/2025, 16:48:26, in reply to "Re: FAO = Norma"

This is the photo and it is in Sefton Road Garden. I'll still put it on as being from the May processiom at English Martyrs. It's sad that you've lost all your family photos. What year did you start school at English Martrys and do you remember Doreen Yates (Now Lambert)/ She lived in Parr Street and she is now 97, I drive her to church every week, she remembers you,

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 24/3/2025, 7:54:18, in reply to "Re: FAO = Norma"

I remember the Lamberts Doreens husband Bob,his family came to litherland from London during the war,one of Bobs sister,lived with my Aunts family at 79 sefton road she would have been the same age as my cousin Sheila Dickinson,Think Bob father was in the navy, His mother could have been staying with a family in Alexander mount,

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 22/3/2025, 19:37:58, in reply to "Re: FAO = Norma"

It was the all the photos I sent home from H K after my son was born,first grand child never met my family till he was 22 months,my Aunt had told my Mum not to overwhelm him it would be strange for him meeting all the new people,But he wasnt the least bit shy,loved everyone,and the stairs,might sound strange but he was used to a lift,so lived testing the stairs anywhere we went,

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It would have been 1943, but back then you could start in the January so maybe 1944,I remember Doreen,and her having her first baby Nicola,that was a very modern name,never heard it before,I must have been about 9 years old on that photo,My cousin Sheila got married in 1950,3 bridesmaid I was the youngest my dress was white,fashion then yougest to be in white like the bride ,looking at the flower i am holding Iris from uncle Jims garden and lily of the vallery from NO 1 parr street,

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Posted by Barbara <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Barbara' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 22/3/2025, 19:13:46, in reply to "Re: FAO = Norma"

Its a lovely picture Norma.

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My Mum wanted chubby children,always trying to fatten me up,So even when a teenager if people said you are nice and slim in my head it become skinny,

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