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30 or more years ago we lived in Banstead, Surrey. During that time husband's parents moved from Surrey to the Ramsgate area in Kent. With no phone connection at their bungalow we urged them to get a phone put in so that we could have ease of contact and they made the arrangements. Imagine our surprise when they told us their new phone number - Thanet 3xxx18, our number in Banstead was also 3xxx18 (can't remember the area code). There was no direct dialling at that time and it always caused a double check from the operator that they had heard correctly and a comment that it was probably a several million to one chance. Have a couple of others, will post them separately. Kate
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:49:32 +0000Coincidence ID:4499

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Anonymous (not verified)

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 12:21pm

I,with my brother and 2 sisters, was evacuuated to Llangammarch Wells,mid Wales during the war (it was wonderful). Years later, now married with two grown daughters, our elder daughter married. Her inlaws had friends who owned a cottage in Wales and they loaned the cottage to them, plus my daughter and her husband, for a holiday. The cottage was in Garth the village next to Llangammarch and the cottage garden joined a farm that was owned by the brother of friends we went to the local school with - a very strange coincidence after so many years.

Anonymous (not verified)

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 12:30pm

On leaving school my husband joined Cranes, the Engineering company located in Aldgate, London. he was then called up to do his National service. After serving in Korea he was demobbed and went back to his old job at Cranes. Walking into a different office one day he noticed that a girl had a photograph on her desk - her boy friend - he recognised the boy friend as a stretcher bearing buddie he'd served with in Korea.