People
The Scantleburys of Landulph
A single comment in a conversation with my great-aunt revealed a potential family scandal and triggered my exploration of my family ancestors in Cornwall.
Lillian Annie Lang (known as Nancy) was born in Cargreen on January 1st 1902. She had an older sister, Jessie Adams Lang (my grandmother, born Cargreen, October 7th 1900), and lived with her parents, Clara Jennifer (nee Scantlebury) and Jack Lang in a cottage on Fore Street.
After my grandmother's death in 1980, I visited my great-aunt who was then living with her son in Hugh Town, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and the conversation turned to my great-grandmother, Clara Jennifer.
Duncan Neale
You can forget being a footballer!!! My dad's very first words to me when I told him Terry Venables, John Lyall, Bobby Moore, and Jimmy Greaves had all joined pro football clubs.
These were boys I regularly played with over Wanstead Park. No one had a telly so that was our main pastime. I was 15 and studying at SW Essex Technical College, doing German, French, Commerce and Accountancy. I played for London Schoolboys and we went on to win The English Shield.
Nicky and David Barwell
A photo of us with Canadian friends we met in Brazil
