An attempt to remap Europe and claim back the lost territories of the North Sea
Engelandvaarders
A few days ago, I followed up a comment by Maureen Manson about the Engelandvaarders, whom I mentioned when I visited Sizewell beach. Maureen’s father, Constable James McGuire, was stationed at Aldringham/Thorpeness during the war and was called to deal with the incident when “a collapsible rubber canoe 15 feet x 3 feet, containing 2 […]
Dear future ancestor
By Sandra Dogger Klassen His tombstone stands among the rest; Not neglected nor alone. The name and date are chiseled out On polished, marbled stone. It reaches out to all who care It is too late to mourn. He did not know that you’d exist He died and You were born. Yet each of us […]
More on the Dogger boat
From Henk Dogger in Brisbane Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age, Chapter 10: “Bucking the Trades” [http://www.brianfagan.com/chapter_10.html] Naval architect and historian John Leather believes doggers had their origins among working boats already familiar to North Sea fisherfolk. Their ancestry clearly lay in the long tradition of lapstrake shipbuilding inherited from Norse ships and earlier prototypes. […]
Jacob Richard Dogger (December 30 1918-April 3 2011)
By Sandra Dogger Klassen In 1973, as his only son Ken was being viewed in his coffin, Dad took my arm and said “I’ll walk with you, Sandra”. I’ve walked with you since Dad and yet that walk is the one I remember best. There was one other “online” walk we took together, the one […]