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	First Meeting

sahara

2-5-2008 2:47 PM

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sahara says:

This was such a cute story, and photo, it begins with "This is a photograph of my parents meeting for the first time ... "

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2-5-2008 7:07 PM

Antara

Just in time for Valentines

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d256bfff-52fa-4f82-8a46-a5c6e6808e46/8409109D-4C09-4525-A91E-7A76005744AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/history/familyhistory/your_photos/showrecord?Id=60&config=live&templatestyle=leaf" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/history/familyhistory/your_photos/showrecord?Id=60&config=live&templatestyle=leaf" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/history/familyhistory/your_photos/showrecord?Id=60&config=live&templatestyle=leaf"><STRONG>Picture location: </STRONG>West Midlands, Central England
<STRONG>Date of scene: </STRONG>
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In 1940, as Paul Gamson, my father was a special policeman in Birmingham, out on the beat looking for unexploded bombs. As Paul Brittain he was a well known Midlands musical director and brilliant pianist, on the bill with the likes of Tommy Trinder, Arthur Askey and Paul Robeson, doing the summer seasons on the south coast.    
On this particular day the Sketch newspaper wanted a publicity shot of this pianist in his war job, looking after the 'Midland Regional' and the nearby theatre. The photographer was on the lookout for a suitable candidate to join PC Gamson in the frame when my mother appeared, on her way to get theatre tickets in her dinner hour. Would she like to have her photograph taken with this famous musician? She wasn't sure! Eventually she agreed as long as it was her profile view! And that's her phone number he's writing down! Muriel at...</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8409109D-4C09-4525-A91E-7A76005744AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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