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November 2021
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South West Coast Path: Minehead to Porlock Weir (Reprised) I completed the South West Coast Path in September 2025, arriving at Poole Harbour, South Haven Point some eight years after I had walked the section from Minehead to Porlock Weir in Autumn 2017. But Tracy had unfinished business, because she didn’t join me until we…
Jane Sydney Bowles, nee Auer (1917-1973) was born to Jewish parents in New York City. She was a sickly child, suffering from tuberculous arthritis, causing her mother to take her to Switzerland for treatment. She met writer and composer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) in 1937 and they married the following year, honeymooning in Central America. Both…
This Dracup family history post still has some loose ends. There are conundrums in every family tree, and I have long puzzled over the marital history of this particular Arthur Dracup. I flatter myself that I’ve made considerable progress, but I’m still missing a few pieces of the jigsaw. I’ve flagged those up below, in…
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