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September 19, 2021 / Alexander, Bruce Peter

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An English Life

January 18, 2021 / 1900-1949, Spriggs Early Years, Med: Slideshow, Bruce Peter, 1900-1999, 1900-1999, Slider, Spriggs, Privilege, Spriggs, Spriggs

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Battenhall Mount

January 12, 2021 / Clothier, Spriggs William 1821, Battenhall Mount, 1800-1899, 1800-1899, Med: Image, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, All Eras, Spriggs, Other, Life In England, Spriggs, Privilege, Spriggs, Spriggs

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Beale

September 19, 2021 / Beale, Bruce Peter

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Bill Spriggs BC Parks

November 15, 2020 / 1900-1949, 1900-1949, All Stories, All Media, Med: Audio, Bruce Peter, Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, 1900-1999, All Eras, Life, 1950+, Persons, Spriggs, Spriggs Bill, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Recollections, Spriggs, Spriggs

My lovely cousin Bill Spriggs passed away in May 2019. Bill was a forester and for almost his entire career, he worked for BC Parks as a parks planner. In this recording, taken one month before his death, his recounts those days. Recorded by Peter Bruce. https://www.newearthvillage.com/spriggs/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bill-Spriggs-BC-Parks.mp3 ...

Bill Spriggs Early Life

November 15, 2020 / 1900-1949, Spriggs Bill, 1900-1949, All Stories, All Families, Med: Audio, Spriggs, Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, 1900-1999, All Eras, Life, 1950+, Persons, Spriggs, Spriggs Bill, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Recollections, Spriggs

This recording was made one month before Bill’s passing in May 2019. He talks about various events and family members in his early life. https://www.newearthvillage.com/spriggs/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bill-Spriggs-Early-Life.mp3 ...

Binyon

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Binyon

Bournville

May 9, 2021 / Chocolate, Text and Images, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, Chocolate, 1800-1899, 1900-1999, Cadbury, Bournville, Cadbury

Bournville Sed vulputate posuere facilisis. Vivamus ultrices elit eu tellus placerat, id feugiat enim egestas. Duis pretium diam eu nibh aliquam eleifend. Proin vitae porta urna, quis tempor turpis. Proin ut ipsum at lorem faucibus ornare nec eget lectus. Nunc fermentum, quam rhoncus pulvinar porttitor, augue risus vulputate diam, a bibendum est lectus nec nisi. Donec vulputate porttitor massa rutrum blandit. In suscipit pulvinar eleifend. Morbi libero elit, bibendum et mattis ut, lobortis nec turpis. Suspendisse in lacus mi. Etiam pellentesque metus a turpis rutrum mollis. Vivamus pulvinar mi at ullamcorper rhoncus. Aliquam mollis leo ut lacus vestibulum, quis tristique sapien rhoncus. Integer scelerisque ut lorem vel lobortis. Fusce blandit id quam id egestas. Nullam pulvinar suscipit massa, eget ornare ...

Brocket

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Brocket

Browne

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Browne

Bruce

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Bruce

Bullis

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Bullis

Bundock

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Bundock

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Butler

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Butler

Cadbury

May 9, 2021 / Chocolate, Incomplete, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, 1900-1999, Bournville, Cadbury

Cadbury

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Cadbury

Chaloner

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Chaloner

Chocolate

February 1, 2021 / Chocolate, Pre-History, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, 1800-1899, 1900-1999, Chaloner, Cadbury, Fry, Rowntree, Rowntree

Bournville, near Birmingham, England Three families of Quakers, for reasons not known to me, began manufacturing chocolate — the Rowntrees of Yorkshire (1862), the Cadbury’s of Birmingham (1824) and the Fry’s of Bristol (1759). All did exceedingly well and all three families were heavily engaged in philanthropy and social action. As well, members of all three families intermarried with members of my family, the Spriggs and Haywards, who also lived in and operated businesses in Birmingham. I have chosen to tell the Cadbury’s story here in order to relate an extraordinary act of philanthropy. It was there in Birmingham, in 1824, that John Cadbury began selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. Early customers were limited to the wealthy because production ...

Dudley

September 19, 2021 / Bruce Peter, Dudley

Edgemere: A Talk With Hester

August 30, 2021 / Edgemere, Bruce Peter, Audio, 1900-1999, Spriggs Hester, Spriggs

Memories of Edgemere 1915-1922(?) Hester Spriggs (1905-2003), daughter of William Spriggs and Alice Hayward, was raised in Acock’s Green, near Birmingham, England. In 1915, when Hester was nine, the family immigrated to an apple farm called Edgemere in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. https://www.newearthvillage.com/spriggs/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Hester-Memories-of-Edgemere.mp3 ...