My very good friend Surrey has sent in some pieces of his dad that he felt could find a home in Oldton - a very moving funeral oration and a Military Cross citation.
Oldton church kneeler
I have just completed a recent research trip to Oulton in Suffolk, followed by a trip to Oulton in Norfolk. There were dogs and shields and bells and graveyards and red cars and village greens in both places, but probably the most intriguing 'artefect' I dug up was a church kneeler.
Do those look like pye dogs to you? Certainly the school looks familiar and its demise in 1969 fits in with the town's disappearance. Once the school goes, a town is definitely on the way out, no?
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Tim Wright
Oldton tobacco jar
So I'm only a month in to my search and already I have conjured a genuine Oldton antique - a 18th century tobacco jar.
How weird that one can pluck 'real' objects out of cyberspace like this, all in the name of online shopping.
Do you think that if we create a strong enough story about my dad we can make him 'real' too?
Dad's sailing log book
Paul I have dug out my Dad's sailing log book from 1947. Blow me if there isn't a reference to Oulton!!
It's clear that I'm going to have to pay this place visit.
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Tim Wright
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