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Janice and David Swindlehurst

of "The Towers at Lea"

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This page was last updated on 26th June 2010

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This page is not a blog. Our daily doings are of no interest to anyone but ourselves and our close family. The intention here is to make available to the people involved the pictures of their involvement in our lives - pictures taken by a happy snappper recording the occasional highlight.

To view the pictures, click on the images. This will open the album for the individual event. When the album is open, clicking on the "Webmaster's Gallery" tab at the top of the album page will display all our albums of all events.

Please note: if a picture appears to be out of focus, wait for a few seconds and it will clear automatically.


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Swindlehurst

a name first recorded (as known currently) in 1189AD - when Adam of that ilk applied to the Forest Court of the Forest of Bowland for the right to extract timber. The origins of the name, and of the people who carry the name, have been the subject of many years of research by a group of very dedicated folk. The results to date of their endeavours can be seen at

The Swindlehurst World Family page.

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Saturday 26th June was a wonderful sunny and warm summer's day, just perfect for the 2010 Lytham Club Day. Our granddaughter Amber was an attendant to the Rose Queen and is pictured here in the landau waiting for the procession to start. Clicking the photograph produces pix of some of the other participants in the procession.

For those not in the know, "club day" used to be a nation-wide institution, when each town and village would parade its individual church (and other organisations') banners through its streets, with their members in support. This has fallen out of use in most of the bigger urban developments, but the Fylde villages still maintain their traditions. (In this respect Lytham is still a village).

Amber
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On Tuesday 11th May 2010 I attended a medal presentation at Fulwood Barracks, Preston, along with many other veterans of the war in Malaya in the 50's and 60's against the Communist insurgency, to be presented with the Pingat Jasa Malaysia by Brigadier General Dato MD Tajri Alwi. My picture is here. This photograph was taken by Genesis Photo Imaging, the official photographers for the ceremony.

Information about the Pingat Jasa Malaysia is available on this website

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Retrospective

Over the years we have taken lots of photographs, which are mostly colour prints. We are now scanning these, in batches, and uploading them likewise. They will of course be basically in random order, but where possible we may manage some sequencing and/or continuity. Previously we have attached a relevant photograph to each entry, but these retrospective pix will usually only have links, shown in red.

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Janice and I treated ourselves to a week's holiday on the Outer Hebrides. These are magical islands, with a mind-boggling amount of interest, including archaeology, history, culture, biology and flora. There are other curiosities as well, including the only scheduled air service in the world which lands on a beach! No photographs do justice - this link shows some of the beaches, with a few others thrown in. Some of them are shown at right.
Kilpheder beach

Kilpheder Beach - where is everybody?

Hougharry beach

Hougharry Beach, as circular as a meteorite strike

Hougharry beach

Hougharry Beach, with Janice

Hushinish beach

Hushinish beach, with flotsam

Hushinish beach

Hushinish Beach, with jetsam

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A brief "Life of Edith Swindlehurst (1899 - 1990)" is here.

A brief "Life of Geoff Swindlehurst (1926 - 1969)" is here.

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