London
Personal slant My link to London: Both my Maternal and Paternal ancestors emigrated to Greater London during the period 1870 - 1910. They came from what is now Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Latvia; an area of Eastern Europe known as the 'Pale of Settlement'. They lived in the East End around the area of Whitechapel, with my mother's family living in Hessel Street, just off Commercial road. Their stories however, are for another blog and another time. I have family in London. My youngest sister and her school age son, my other nephew from my other sister, originally from Perth, my cousin and her family from my mother's side and my late father's 98 year old sister, plus her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Had I not been taken to one of 'the Colonies' at an early age I would more than likely have spent my life in London, working in the markets and just seeing the world through the lens of my TV or worse, through the WWW not knowing the differ...