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Could you explain your connection to Tom Twisleton? I’ve know about Tom all my life. Greg my father, born in 1900 above his parents shop in Settle market place, was 48 when I was born, knew Tom and shared with me about him. One reason the centenary has so much energy is that one step away living link between Tom and I. My father read me Tom’s poems, walked me up to Winskill as a child, and when he died in 1974 left me the graphic mid 19th century press cutting of Tom’s father, Frank, the Craven Giant. Church involvement as a teenager helped me look at parish records in the 1970s where, in the-then manual searching, a rare name like Twisleton is an advantage. Being a writer I’ve set my mind in recent years, to publications linked to Twisleton’s in genealogical magazines: Family Tree Magazine July 2007 on Seeing the World as a Twisleton from which I built another article on A Religious Gene in Your Family Tree July 2007 . With my mother living in Settle up to 2010, I was reg
My mother Elsie Twisleton (95)’s 1min greeting for Tom Twisleton Centenary played in the Royal Oak Settle and at Parish Eucharist in Holy Ascension, Settle respectively on 24 and 25 November 2017. It was recorded in November 2017 at St Anne’s Convent Residential Home, Burgess Hill, West Sussex.
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