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Just found 1911 Census details for the Miltons when Harry was 9 years old....
Name: Harry Milton
Age in 1911: 9
Estimated birth year: abt 1902
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Leeds, Yorkshire, England
County/Island: Yorkshire-West Riding
Country: England
Street address: 28 Sutherland Terrace
Registration district: Leeds
Sub-registration district: North East Leeds
Household Members:
Name Age
Harry Milton 50
Clara Ellen Milton 42
Ellen Milton 10
Harry Milton 9
Dorothy Milton 7
Arthur Milton 5
Ernest Milton 1
Success! I used to enjoy classes with Harry Blinks. He was so easy to divert from teaching to tell stories of the war! Wasn't one of his anecdotes published in the Clarendon French Course? The one where the Englishman with the abysmal accent wants to ask the way to the station but winds up asking 'Ou est la guerre'?
I remember when he read the class list as though our names were French. Binns was nearly like Bang ! PIke was Peek, but Pye was Pee .Shuttleworth was a problem (Shootlervort), as was Youngs (Cant attempt it !)
Hello. Thanks for posting. I hope I got the research above all correct, but I didnt know Stuart as he was a good bit older than me. Your grandad was an excellent French teacher, I had him for several years.
Hello. Thanks for posting. I hope I got the research above all correct, but I didnt know Stuart as he was a good bit older than me. Your grandad was an excellent French teacher, I had him for several years.
Thanks Brian for the research. I know nothing about my great-grandparents so it was lovely to learn a bit. And thank you for your kind comments about Harry. That was lovely to hear. I was so fond of him and miss him increasingly as I get older. I am moving up to Yorkshire in the summer, so it's lovely to start making connections. Sally
. Hi, Rosemary.
never had harry blinks [wonder where that name came from] for french but I remember using a text book he had written. a QUINZAINE or something.He was a dedicated educator of the,mostly unwilling.
Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1952/58
Current location (optional) still local. how the town has changed
QUINZAINE rings no bells but the authors of my French text book with green cover were Milton & Fox.
Fred Catley was our master and also mon oncle's teacher at ecole de la nuit. When I visited my uncle, who was housing his sick mother-in-law, he requested I said to her: avez vous ete malade? {missing the acute accents).
Each chapter of Harry’s French course was entitled ‘Quinzaine’ because it was supposed to take you two weeks to study it. Quinzaine means fortnight in French.
French wise, what caught my attention a while ago was Jean Paul Sartre\'s play, NO EXIT.
I bought the French version but true to form, I\'ve mislaid same.
A little more advanced than la plume de ma tante.
Eureka! The French title is "Huis clos." Three people who despise each other meet in hell. SPOILER;
Chaos ensues until the trio agree to leave each other alone.