Friday, August 18, 2023

Introducing Mollie


Here is cousin Mollie. She was the recipient of some of my grandparents letters, written in the Blitz. More recently, I was staying with her in Hertfordshire, when she handed me a bundle of letters, written by my grandparents to her and her parents, which give a graphic account of the London Blitz. I started to put these letters on a blog nearly 13 years ago. Today, they have a world-wide audience. Together, Mollie and I tried to put together our shared Critchley ancestry.  Mollie lived in St Helens with the Critchleys until she was six. After she and her parents, Harry and Mary Platt, moved to Glasgow, they spent all their Christmases with the Critchleys in St Helens, Lancashire. This blog will share Mollie's memories, our joint research and family pictures. Here is a link to the war-time letters between two generations of Critchleys.

https://tomcritchleysletters1940to1941.blogspot.com/2010/10/tom-critchley-to-his-niece-molly-platt.html 



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