Same primary school
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Twice a year we stay for 5 nights at a small country hotel in the Lake District - 12 bedrooms. We often chat to other couples we meet for the first time. On our last visit we spoke with a couple staying for one night. Based on accent we knew they came from near Birmingham, as did my wife. We found that the other woman was born in Highfield Rd Blackheath around the time my wife's parents had moved into Highfield Crescent, Blackheath (1940). The two roads are separated by about 100 m of scrubland. They attended the same primary school in the early 1940s and recalled both the headmaster and several teachers. They think that inevitably their paths would have crossed as children and then not again until in the hotel, about 70 years later.
Date submitted:Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:51:38 +0000Coincidence ID:6069
