The genealogy website I use has a free offer on searching newspapers.
I've wasted a few hours looking up ancestors.
My father in law seems to have won prizes for his allotment raspberries and pinks in the middle 1950s.
There were relations on that side who were variously getting into trouble with the law in the 1910s but saving lives at sea in the 1930s.
I found mentions of a distant cousin of mine who when I was a child seemed very glamorous. She appeared in a number of variety shows, mostly at seaside resorts in the 50s & 60s.
I've also found out a bit more about a Polytechnic Cycling Club memorial race in my family name - I now know it was a 12 hour time trial. I don't know when it was last run though, but the London Mercury CC seem to have taken it on by the mid 60s.
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