Changing place names

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Member Since: October 2010 Posts: 105 Send Message	HappyBunny40	Report	21 Feb 2011 00:26
Member Since: October 2010 Posts: 105 Send Message	The only thing that has changed from where I used to live is :- nothing still the same place, same church, same school, same pub, and still my favourite place my cottage . Tell a lie the way the spelling ov this village has changed . Still have some very fond memorys ov my grandparents I'n this beautiful , such a shame that I shall never be able to go back. :-(
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 7,772 Send Message	Persephone	Report	19 Feb 2011 10:56
	I have some days like that where the bottom just drops out of it. Persie
	Researching: The latest tree member our Grandson, Stellan born 09/12/14
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 8,423 Send Message	ChrisofWessex	Report	19 Feb 2011 10:52
	Going on from thread re first names change in families, FIL born at Robins Bottom, Nr Iping. He described it as a farm and about 6 houses. A few years ago we went looking for it - we enquired at a house where it was, had we missed it? Told we were in it and it was now called Robins - still had just a farmhouse and 6 houses after 90 + years, So the Bottom had gone!